By
M.
Richard Maxson
In
nearly 20 years at CBS News, Sharyl Attkisson, unloads on her
colleagues in big-time TV news for their biased story lines and
outright lies being represented as facts. The major network
news decisions get made by a handful of New York execs who read the
same papers and think the same thoughts.
Often
they dream up stories beforehand and turn the reporters into “casting
agents,” told “we need to find someone who will say . . .” that
a given policy is good or bad. “We’re asked to create a reality
that fits their New York image of what they believe,” she writes in
her book “Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of
Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama’s Washington”
(Harper).
She
states that one of her bosses had a rule that conservative analysts
must always be labeled conservatives, but liberal analysts were
simply “analysts.” Given how obvious this bias is, the question
is not whether liberals in the media tend to offer biased reporting.
The question is why? Why can’t liberal news people report the news
without any slant? For most liberal news reporters, therefore, the
purpose of news reporting is not to report news as objectively as
possible. The purpose of the media in general and of reporting
specifically is to promote social justice and the social
transformation of society.
Here are some of their thoughts and
confessions:
“So
many [reporters and editors] share a kind of political and cultural
progressivism — for lack of a better term — that this worldview
virtually bleeds through the fabric of the Times." - Outgoing
public editor Arthur Brisbane in his final New York Times column,
August 26, 2012.
"Ultimately
journalism has changed....Partisanship is very much a part of
journalism now.”- CBS Corporation Chairman and CEO Les Moonves as
quoted in a June 7, 2012 Los Angeles Times.
"Are
reporters biased? There is no doubt that — I’ve worked at the
Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and worked here at
Politico. If I had to guess, if you put all of the reporters that
I’ve ever worked with on truth serum, most of them vote
Democratic.”— Politico's Jim VandeHei, March 13, 2012.
"No
person with eyes in his head in 2008 could have failed to see the way
that soft coverage helped to propel Obama first to the Democratic
nomination and then into the White House.”— New York Magazine
political reporter John Heilemann, January 27, 2012.
“When
Newsweek was owned by the Washington Post, it was predictably
left-wing, but it was accurate. Under Tina Brown, it is an inaccurate
and unfair left-wing propaganda machine.”— USA Today founder Al
Neuharth.
"The
mainstream press is liberal....Since the civil rights and women's
movements, the culture wars and Watergate, the press corps at such
institutions as the Washington Post, ABC-NBC-CBS News, the NYT, the
Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, the
Boston Globe, etc. is composed in large part of 'new' or 'creative'
class members of the liberal elit." — Longtime Washington Post
political reporter Thomas Edsall.
"I
don't know if it's 95 percent...[but] there are enough [liberals] in
the old media, not just in ABC, but in old media generally, that it
tilts the coverage quite frequently, in many issues, in a liberal
direction....It's an endemic problem. And again, it's the reason why
for 40 years, conservatives have rightly felt that we did not give
them a fair shake."— ABC News political director Mark
Halperin.
"The
elephant in the newsroom is our narrowness. Too often, we wear
liberalism on our sleeve and are intolerant of other lifestyles and
opinions....We're not very subtle about it at this paper: If you work
here, you must be one of us. You must be liberal, progressive, a
Democrat. I've been in communal gatherings in The Post, watching
election returns, and have been flabbergasted to see my colleagues
cheer unabashedly for the Democrats."— Washington Post "Book
World" editor Marie Arana.
"Personally,
I have a great affection for CBS News....But I stopped watching it
some time ago. The unremitting liberal orientation finally became too
much for me. I still check in, but less and less frequently."—
Former CBS News President Van Gordon Sauter.
"The
old argument that the networks and other 'media elites' have a
liberal bias is so blatantly true that it's hardly worth discussing
anymore."—CBS reporter Bernard Goldberg.
It is proof of the fact that the national media's primary objective is not to
report the news, but to spin, distort and suppress the news in order
to brainwash Americans into accepting socialism. I urge you to
question more – and questioning more is the very last thing that
the elites in the west want us to do. They want us to accept hook,
line and sinker THEIR narrative of world events and we’re expected
to accept these narratives and not to question them. Every day of our
lives we are literally being drowned in lies. Lies by government.
Lies by advertisers. Lies by the corporate media. This blog is a
refuge for the truth and you are welcome to find it here.
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