Saturday - September 11, 2004

Category Image More Media Credibility Problems


The Washington Times, normally a very balanced newspaper, is finally reporting about the terror courts set up by Muqtada Al Sadr. I'm glad someone is finally doing it, but I've known about these courts for months now, why is it only now making the news?

The Washington Times, though, is the only mainstream media source that I know of that is making this public. Where is the Post, CBS News, CNN, etc.? What do they pay their reporters to do? How come I know of these things from the internet but these "journalists" don't think it's important to report?

First we should remember that not only are many in the MSM completely corrupt (CNN paid Saddam Hussein and refused to report on known tortures before the war) but that "journalism" is just a euphemism for "people too stupid to get a real degree in college." Honestly, they aren't the bottom of the collegiate intelligence pecking order. They're one step below "political science" and one step above "psychology" where the really true morons go.

We learn today that NRP is repeating another lie about the CBS forgeries. They claim that the original claim by the Freeper "Buckhead" that these documents were forgeries was made before the CBS broadcast, thus it must have been made by the same person giving them to CBS, and therefore it was all a republican conspiracy.

The problem is that the time stamp they were looking at that caused them to make this supposition is from the Pacific time zone. And besides, it was in a thread where people across the country had been discussing the show for a couple hours already. You'd have to be a moron, or really, truly have some kooky belief that all of the Freepers are republican operatives working in concert to make these outrageous assertions that Buckhead was the leader of a conspiracy.

But that is the type of person at NPR. They are poorly educated, wrapping themselves in a mantle of upper crust appreciation of bad art and bad literature.

Yet they accuse bloggers of being merely people sitting around at home in their pajamas. I don't know what that even means. Are they saying that how you dress is a reflection of your knowledge? Perhaps they truly think that because they have expensive suits when they go on camera that not only does it bolster the perception of their credibility, but it actually grants them credibility.

The morons in the "field" of "journalism" seem to have forgotten that the rest of the world is generally more intelligent than them, and that for any particular subject matter the internet can spit out experts that willingly share their expertise with all of us. There is no way, even if "journalists" weren't the bottom of the collegiate ladder, that they can possibly know as much as the millions of people on the internet.

But the MSM does have a few advantages that they're not exploiting. They have cameras, they have a budget, and they have reporters. I would suggest that if the MSM wants to salvage its credibility that it stop creating media personalities like the clearly idiotic and agenda-driven Dan Rather and concentrate on finding the stories and reporting on them with intelligence.

For instance, rather than having the majority of their reporters in Iraq sitting around the same hotel, one or two might have taken the initiative of going into Najaf and reporting on the re-implementation of Sharia and the reign of terror going on. Some did go into Najaf, but their sole purpose appeared to show the brutality of the Americans and the heroic resistance of the terrorists. They can go into Fallujah and report what we already know, that the terrorists there are terrorizing the populations there. We know these things are occurring because we read blogs of people there, but we don't hear it from CBS or CNN, or NPR.

The MSM is dying, needs to die, and information is no longer controlled by them. Some of them are hysterical in reacting to this new reality, but that's their problem. They should have gotten jobs more akin to their intelligence level, like street sweeper or toilet cleaner, so they are a little slow to catch on to their own fate.

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