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The MSM frequently everyday fails to reports stories it does not see as portraying certain politicians as wise and doing well in their positions. The MSM frequently everyday fails to present both or all sides of important issues.
How is it possible that the MSM can ignore its responsibility to report with accuracy, disguise its biased product as news, and disregard rules and laws of quality journalism?
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MSM's Tea Party Cognitive Dissonance
By Kyle-Anne Shiver

Post Journalism

By Victor Davis Hansen
November 7, 2008
National Review Online
We have seen it all the last two years: Weeping journalists on election night; a journalist openly promising to help make Obama successful as was heard on MSNBC ("Yeah, it is my job."); film takes of journalists cheering an Obama speech; the savaging of Sarah Palin and the hands-off treatment of Biden; soft-ball interviews and long puff-pieces on Obama as the young cool crusader; comparisons to JFK's Camelot, and on and on.
In the 3rd book of his history, Thucydides has some insightful thoughts about destroying institutions in times of zealotry—and then regretting their absence when there is a need for refuge for them. The mainstream press should have learned that lesson, once they blew up their credibility in the past election by morphing into the Team Obama press agency.
There will come a time in the year ahead when either Obama's unexamined past will come back to haunt him, or his inexperience and tentativeness in foreign affairs will be embarrassingly apparent, or his European-socialist agenda for domestic programs simply won't work. And as public opinion falls, what will MSNBC, the New York Times, the editors of Newsweek, a Chris Matthews or the  anchors at the major networks say?
Not much—since they will have one of two non-choices: (1) either they will begin scrambling to offer supposed disinterested criticism, which will be met with the public's, "Why should we begin believing you now?" or "Why didn't you tell this before?", or  (2), They can continue as state-sanctioned megaphones of the Obama administration in the manner that they did during the campaign. They will lose either way and remain without credibility.
In short, we live now in the Age of Post-Journalism. All that was before is now over, as  this generation of journalists voluntarily destroyed the hallowed notion of objectivity and they will have no idea quite  how to put Humpty-Dumpty back together again.
Meet Barack Obama's Family & Friends
She Graduated From Journalism School But Failed To Graduate From The Schoolyard
September 24, 2008 -- Katie Couric, CBS News anchor, demanded that her staff drop all references to "Governor" or "Gov." surrounding her interview with Alaska's Governor Sarah Palin.
A person on her staff pointed out that in other venues, CBS News and Couric had referred to Joe Biden, using his title of "Senator" or the abbreviation. According to a CBS News editorial aide, Couric sought approval from CBS News management to drop the reference "Governor" during her broadcast interview with Palin.
Couric did not refer to Palin as Governor at anytime during the interview.
Most people, as they mature, develop skills to discuss and debate with adversaries that are not petty and juvenile such as those Couric used in her position as a CBS News anchor.
She -- in her juvenile, so-very-angry attitude toward Governor Palin -- simply displayed her petty and juvenile methods. And CBS News -- having allowed it -- simply displayed itself.
Couric and CBS News also displayed the fact that they are very afraid of this accomplished lady known as Governor Palin. But what might they fear from Governor Palin? She is not a juvenile, petty person like Couric and CBS News. She is concerned with important issues.
Couric, CBS News, and too many others in the MSM fail to have any pride in their profession. Might they comprehend what journalistic standards are? Might they be concerned about reporting facts to the American people?
Might the American people be concerned that they do not -- and often cannot -- receive honest reporting from the MSM stars?
Do Not Allow Facts To Confuse Presentations
CNN promotes itself as "the most trusted name in news". However the percentage who "believe all or most" of what CNN reports has declined 12 points, to 30%, since 1998, when Pew first posed the question.
As an indicator of how far the news media have fallen in the public's eyes, CNN is at the top of the 12 television news outlets analyzed. It is also above all newspapers and online sources reviewed.
Believability for ABC News, CBS News and NBC News is down six points over the past ten years, to 24% for ABC and NBC, 22% for CBS. Notably that is better than the mere 18% who "believe all or most" of what they read in the New York Times.
Mass Media Are Populated With Despicable, Lying, Inept Prevaricators
A recent Bush interview on NBC was edited in such a way as to change the meaning of what he said to the point that the White House lodged a complaint. Media prevaricators are beyond out-of-control.
And the media's finest journalists fail to understand the English language. CNN recently called Teddy Kennedy "American royalty". Another source added, "And while many Americans certainly have high regard for the Kennedies...."
Note the journalists' pluralizing of the name. Even their hero receives their illiterate, shoddy treatment.
Please, Please, Please Get Terrified
The following is a recent headline from Forbes.com:

"Consumer Confidence Crushed"
The news media display their fear of being left out of view. In a feeble attempt to hold its dwindling number of viewers, the media fail to present the news without bias. The mainstream media work to distort the news using terrifying, shocking, nerve-racking headlines. As if that were not enough, they follow their headlines with story content phrasing that includes emotionalized, further distorting, modifying terminology such as the following.
"Friday’s consumer confidence survey confirmed investors’ worst fears, leaving the U.S. stock market quaking with worry over inflation and jobs."
The media demonstrate a near-total disregard for journalistic integrity.
If the media did understand their responsibility, they would logically provide un-hyped news in order to build their businesses and be journalistically correct. Thinking people want:  Accurate, substantive news. It does not want over-blown, silly, juvenile, fear-provoking tabloid-oriented stories.
The media could provide a larger quantity of quality news with fewer personnel. However, the media would need to first employ mature personnel. That would be difficult in today's narcissistic juvenile culture.
Exponential Narcissism
News media have abandoned their responsibility to provide wide-ranging global, domestic, and local news.
Or does it, to paraphrase Bill Clinton, depend what meaning of news is? It appears that news has been redefined as, "Only that which has to do with US presidential politics." Nothing is news if related to global, domestic, and local events unless a specific event may be overlaid into election politics or if it fits in the unending parade of disgusting, despicable sex crimes & run-away females.
The news media are obsessed with jabbering about politics because mainstream media reporters are primarily politically-oriented and enthralled with gathering and reporting on politics.
The news media apparently believes that by sticking its head in the sand, genuinely substantive global and domestic events will have little impact. That is, "We are the entitled news filters and if we don't report it, it doesn't matter".
Thinking people crave substantive news. Media narcissists fail to comprehend that everyday the world is developing and evolving beyond the US, making the US relatively less significant as a proportion of the world's self-empowering cultures.
An ill-informed populace is an irrational, uncontrolled electorate. An emotionalized, self-centered election outcome will provide increased opportunities for dark global forces that are more empowered each day and whose objectives include the end of Western culture.
Not Surprised By Emotionalized Juvenile Behavior
A recent Forbes' headline reads, "Surprise! Inflation Looking Worrisome". A CNN headline screams, "Producer prices soared in January". A local Florida paper reported published its copy on the Internet stating, "The good news is that Florida is no longer the second most-active state in the country in terms of foreclosure. The bad news is that it only fell one rank." The AP ran this headline: "Confidence Plunges, Inflation Rate Soars".
Until recently a person interested in learning, thinking, and analyzing news of the day could turn to the Internet. Some traditional journals and periodicals were presenting news -- although slanted -- that was not trivialized and did not contain opinions and emotionalized flavorings embedded within sentences serving as quasi-parenthetical thoughts.
However, time marches on -- as they say -- and continues to pull journalism down to ever-lower levels of superfluous phrasings, emotionalized facts, and juvenile trivializations.
As today's readers review news stories on the Internet, they observe added words and phrases that have little to do with stories' news content. These additions are emotionalized and politicized terms intended to add feeling and filler. Obviously today's writers fail to understand that real news does not require emotionalized and trivialized explanation and is permitted to be somewhat devoid of slant.
People are starved for pure news containing relevant facts.
The juveniles who ever-so-fast-fast prepare and click so-called news stories out to the Internet under the guise of well-known names, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, and CNN appear to operate using one simple, over-riding guideline. That operational guideline is that, just as in middle school, they are graded by the number of words, not the caliber of their content.
Uninhibited, Inexperienced, & Carefree -- And A Self-proclaimed Motor-mouth
Erin Burnett, CNBC's latest incarnation of a contrived Queen & Star to replace the flailing, failing Maria Bartiromo, called George Bush a "monkey" on the MSNBC "Morning Joe" show. She later apologized on Chris Matthews' show for her 'bad joke'.
Fortunately for Burnett, George Bush is not black. If that were the case, her joke would not be accepted as a "joke". However, it appears Burnett will get away with saying anything whatsoever about a sitting US president.
Today's adult juveniles are out of control and totally uninhibited. They know not wisdom, morals, nor journalistic standards of excellence. They have never been reprimanded when children or students by parents, teachers, nor anyone who cared enough about them to ensure that they grow up to be fine mature adults. Instead, these adult juveniles become overly empowered on jobs that pay inordinately high salaries for relatively trivial tasks.
Media companies provide these adult juveniles with excessively tall podiums upon which they are empowered to say anything whatsoever with impunity. These juvenile who know little and care less, may move markets inappropriately, but, as they say, "Hey, it's GE's CNBC."
MediaIssues is concerned with the caliber and content of news, advertising & entertainment. You are invited to answer the survey below to help identify what the public truly wants in news and entertainment.
News media -- reporters and management -- have too much time to fill, lack intelligence, and are obsessed with themselves and their perceived empowerment. Therefore, regardless of the status, fame, or importance of the story or people being interviewed or discussed, each reporter includes herself through the use of "I".
Today's media-empowered and aggrandized stars are wildly self involved, narcissistic. and juvenile.
News media are out of control.
News media are controlled by large-scale multi-media corporations whose top management daily demonstrates its perverted, voyeuristic, obsessions. Each day it sets policies to replace meaningful, world changing events with endless parades of trite jokester stories and sick crimes running the gamut from the latest school shooting to low class Hollywood-related behavior replay to the endless embarrassing today's frail political leadership.
It is no wonder that our political leadership is weak. The media have caused America to be awash in weak leaders. No person of substance -- no one who has worked to achieve status, a career, skills, and serious concerns -- would come forth. These individuals would be foolish to campaign for leadership of our under-educated, divisive, and confused populace. We are a people which allows itself to be distracted and influenced by today's media juvenile, inexperienced reporters and executives. We are spoiled by decades of successes. Rarely before have we been in such serious need for strong, decisive leaders. Rarely before has the media been as juvenile, reckless, and self-involved.
The media's producer-reporter cadre has lost perspective. Reality to them is a contrivance that they repeatedly dissected, spin, and portray as news. Juvenile, performing news readers lecture, rant, speak unintelligently and unintelligibly from their self-involved, inexperienced perspectives.
People who are starved for real news are each day further deprived of clearly presented, factual news.
People demanding real news are increasingly shunning newspapers, TV, and radio. They realize that cautious and select use of reliable Internet sites provide the more complete and accurate news.
Management of the mass media outlets has instructed its ever-lowered caliber of intellectually challenged, juvenile, squeaky-voiced news readers to flavor news with emotionalized judgmental pronouncements. Amazingly, the juvenile-voiced news readers appear to believe that consumers look to them for testimonials.
It is the mass media that prevents capable people from entering politics. The lack of leadership on all political levels is directly attributable to the media's endless quest for dirt related to any potential candidate for any office, including the Office of the President of the United States.
Journalism Today
News should be written with few enhancing phrases intended to provide judgmental pseudo-opinions to color facts.  The resulting shorter news stories would be less distorted and more concise and appropriate for today's readers desiring more news with less emotionalized flourish.
Today's reporters abuse their roles as reporters. They have mutated from journalists to center-stage newsmakers. Many reporters exhibit arrogance that can only be attributed to ignorance about their profession and its objectives and methods. Journalism is a lost skill that needs to be recovered.
MediaIssues.com objectives include:
1.  To identify that people want news programming to again be reporting the news, not predicting, commenting, joking, or misconstruing;
2.  To return news reporting to those who want to report the news accurately and with only a reasonable bias;
3.  To have unworthy journalists exposed;
Reporting Today
Regarding redundancy: Heard on the now defunct CNNFN just before a station break: "Stick around if you have questions about the future going forward. We'll be right back." Does that sound worth waiting for?
Regarding the Art of Communication: If communication is the goal, why do reporters speak so fast that they can not be understood? When they speak so very fast all they accomplish is that they can start volleying trivialities between themselves. Why don't reporters speak slowly to be understood? They could then effectively communicate more information in less time and still get to the silly trivialities!
Regarding news presentation: If presentation of the news is their goal, why do reporters spend so much time bantering, trivializing and volleying with their coworkers?

 

 

 

Societies are defined by their successes and limited by their failures.
We  live in the grandest and most successful political, social, economic world in history. We live in a time of great potential and great risk. Our quest should be how to maximize each individual's success and happiness and to concurrently minimize the risks to our society and to each individual.
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