Many are not going to like the question I raise
many are not even going to want to read this, or think for themselves
because many of us BLINDLY "trust" the news to give us clear and real information
many of us count on the news to give us facts, which we accept,
and will use to decide our vote with in a few days
but here is a big issue to ponder
Let's start with the totals I was working with:
People murdered in California in 5 years: 12, 047
with a population of under 36,000,000
163,696 sq mi
non-military, domestic state, with gun laws
People murdered in Texas in 5 years: 7,000
with a population of under 24,000,000
268,820 sq mi
non-military, domestic state, with right to carry laws
Combat deaths in Iraq for just over 5 years: 3,389
with an Iraq population of over 29,200,000
169,234 sq mi
active combat zone
Last time I looked - California and Iraq are about the same geographical size
Although I don't want to see anyone killed
- I came across one big problem with the news reporting for the last 5 years.
look at those numbers, and then ask yourself these questions
Why is the murder of over 2,250 people / year, in one state in America, which is NOT a war zone, being ignored by the news media?
There are over 6 people per day being murdered in one state, in peaceful USA
3 x more people are being killed in one state of this Union, than soldiers in a war zone
Anyone want to explain why murders at home not make the same news as a soldier in Iraq?
what if the "facts" we are getting are slanted and biased?
what if there is an agenda?
perhaps - it's more popular to bash a policy and to report on what is happening elsewhere than it is to be honest and report what is here under our nose
Now for the big question
If the news media is slanting the news in this manner, and not reporting this to We, the People
What else is the news media hiding, or being less than open and fair about?
To me, that there is a bias and agenda are blatantly clear
the bias is even being reported as making the news
so much for fair and complete news reporting
by the way - more people are also murdered in IL and AZ combined
with a population of just over 19,000,000
than US soldiers in Iraq during the war
these are states that would be lost inside the Iraq boarders
in case anyone would like to argue the numbers - here is the link for crimes - 1960 to 2007 for California
http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/cacrime.htm
the newspapers report the soldiers deaths daily, so I won't bother
Showing posts with label press bias. Show all posts
Showing posts with label press bias. Show all posts
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
Camp Followers
Camp Followers
By Patrick J. Buchanan
October 24, 2008
Perhaps the only institution in America whose approval rating is
beneath that of Congress is the media.
Both have won their reputations the hard way. They earned them.
Consider the fawning indulgence shown insider Joe Biden with the
dripping contempt visited on outsider Sarah Palin.
Twice last weekend, Biden grimly warned at closed-door meetings
that a great crisis is coming early in the term of President Obama:
"Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests
Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. ... Remember I said it
standing here if you don't remember anything else I said ... we're
gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the
mettle of this guy."
A "generated crisis"? By whom? Moscow? Beijing? Teheran?
This is an astonishing statement from a chairman of the Foreign
Relations Committee who has access to the same intelligence as
George Bush. Joe was warning of a crisis like the Berlin Wall of
July 1961, where JFK called for a tripling of the draft and ordered
a call-up of reserves, or the missile crisis where U.S. pilots like
John McCain were minutes away from bombing nuclear missile sites in
Cuba and killing the Russians manning them.
Is Russia about to move on the Crimea? Is Israel about to launch
air strikes on Iran's nuclear sites? What is Joe talking about?
If one assumes Joe is a serious man, we have a right to know.
Instead, what we got was Obama's airy dismissal of Joe's words as a
"rhetorical flourish" and a media -- rather than demanding that Joe
hold a press conference -- acting as Obama surrogates parroting the
talking points that Joe was just saying that new presidents always
face tests.
Had John McCain made that hair-raising statement, he would have
been accused of fear mongering about a new 9/11. The media would
have run with the story rather than have smothered it.
Contrasting McCain with his hero, Joe declared a few weeks back,
"When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the
television and ... said, 'Look, here's what happened.'"
Nice historical reference. Except when the market crashed in 1929,
Hoover was president, and there was no television.
Can one imagine what the press would have done to Sarah Palin had
she exhibited such ignorance of history. Or Dan Quayle?
Joe gets a pass because everybody likes Joe.
Fine. But Joe also has a record of 36 years in the Senate.
Has anyone ever asked Joe about his own and his party's role in
cutting off aid to South Vietnam, leading to the greatest strategic
defeat in U.S. history and the Cambodian holocaust? Has anyone ever
asked Joe about the role he and his party played in working to
block Reagan's deployment of Pershing missiles in Europe, and SDI,
which Gorbachev concedes broke the Soviets and won the Cold War?
In the most crucial vote he ever cast -- to give Bush a blank check
for war in Iraq -- Joe concedes he got it wrong.
Is Joe's record of having been wrong on Vietnam, wrong in the Cold
War, wrong on the Iraq War, less important than whether Sarah Palin
tried to get fired a rogue-cop brother-in-law who Tasered her
10-year old nephew to "teach him a lesson"?
"I've forgotten more about foreign policy than most of my
colleagues know," says Joe humbly. Given his record, it is
understandable Joe has forgotten so much of it.
Saturday, the New York Times did a takeout on Cindy McCain that
delved back into her problem with prescription pills. Yet when
Hillary's campaign manager, Mark Penn, brought up Obama's cocaine
use on "Hardball," he was savaged by folks for whom the Times is
the gold standard.
The people apparently had a "right to know" of Bush's old DUI
arrest a week before the 2000 election, but no right to know about
how and when Obama was engaged in the criminal use of cocaine.
The media cannot get enough of the "Saturday Night Live"
impersonations of Palin as a bubblehead. News shows pick up the
Tina Fey clips and run them and run them to the merriment of all.
Can one imagine "Saturday Night Live" doing weekly send-ups of
Michelle Obama and her "I've never been proud" of my country, this
"just downright mean" America, using a black comedienne to mimic
and mock her voice and accent?
"Saturday Night Live" would be facing hate crime charges.
How do we know? When the New Yorker ran a cartoon of Michelle in an
Angela-Davis afro with an AK-47 slung over her shoulder, New Yorker
editors had to go on national television to swear they were not
mocking Michelle, but the conservatives who have so caricatured
Michelle and The Messiah.
Is there a media double standard? You betcha.
By Patrick J. Buchanan
October 24, 2008
Perhaps the only institution in America whose approval rating is
beneath that of Congress is the media.
Both have won their reputations the hard way. They earned them.
Consider the fawning indulgence shown insider Joe Biden with the
dripping contempt visited on outsider Sarah Palin.
Twice last weekend, Biden grimly warned at closed-door meetings
that a great crisis is coming early in the term of President Obama:
"Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests
Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. ... Remember I said it
standing here if you don't remember anything else I said ... we're
gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the
mettle of this guy."
A "generated crisis"? By whom? Moscow? Beijing? Teheran?
This is an astonishing statement from a chairman of the Foreign
Relations Committee who has access to the same intelligence as
George Bush. Joe was warning of a crisis like the Berlin Wall of
July 1961, where JFK called for a tripling of the draft and ordered
a call-up of reserves, or the missile crisis where U.S. pilots like
John McCain were minutes away from bombing nuclear missile sites in
Cuba and killing the Russians manning them.
Is Russia about to move on the Crimea? Is Israel about to launch
air strikes on Iran's nuclear sites? What is Joe talking about?
If one assumes Joe is a serious man, we have a right to know.
Instead, what we got was Obama's airy dismissal of Joe's words as a
"rhetorical flourish" and a media -- rather than demanding that Joe
hold a press conference -- acting as Obama surrogates parroting the
talking points that Joe was just saying that new presidents always
face tests.
Had John McCain made that hair-raising statement, he would have
been accused of fear mongering about a new 9/11. The media would
have run with the story rather than have smothered it.
Contrasting McCain with his hero, Joe declared a few weeks back,
"When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the
television and ... said, 'Look, here's what happened.'"
Nice historical reference. Except when the market crashed in 1929,
Hoover was president, and there was no television.
Can one imagine what the press would have done to Sarah Palin had
she exhibited such ignorance of history. Or Dan Quayle?
Joe gets a pass because everybody likes Joe.
Fine. But Joe also has a record of 36 years in the Senate.
Has anyone ever asked Joe about his own and his party's role in
cutting off aid to South Vietnam, leading to the greatest strategic
defeat in U.S. history and the Cambodian holocaust? Has anyone ever
asked Joe about the role he and his party played in working to
block Reagan's deployment of Pershing missiles in Europe, and SDI,
which Gorbachev concedes broke the Soviets and won the Cold War?
In the most crucial vote he ever cast -- to give Bush a blank check
for war in Iraq -- Joe concedes he got it wrong.
Is Joe's record of having been wrong on Vietnam, wrong in the Cold
War, wrong on the Iraq War, less important than whether Sarah Palin
tried to get fired a rogue-cop brother-in-law who Tasered her
10-year old nephew to "teach him a lesson"?
"I've forgotten more about foreign policy than most of my
colleagues know," says Joe humbly. Given his record, it is
understandable Joe has forgotten so much of it.
Saturday, the New York Times did a takeout on Cindy McCain that
delved back into her problem with prescription pills. Yet when
Hillary's campaign manager, Mark Penn, brought up Obama's cocaine
use on "Hardball," he was savaged by folks for whom the Times is
the gold standard.
The people apparently had a "right to know" of Bush's old DUI
arrest a week before the 2000 election, but no right to know about
how and when Obama was engaged in the criminal use of cocaine.
The media cannot get enough of the "Saturday Night Live"
impersonations of Palin as a bubblehead. News shows pick up the
Tina Fey clips and run them and run them to the merriment of all.
Can one imagine "Saturday Night Live" doing weekly send-ups of
Michelle Obama and her "I've never been proud" of my country, this
"just downright mean" America, using a black comedienne to mimic
and mock her voice and accent?
"Saturday Night Live" would be facing hate crime charges.
How do we know? When the New Yorker ran a cartoon of Michelle in an
Angela-Davis afro with an AK-47 slung over her shoulder, New Yorker
editors had to go on national television to swear they were not
mocking Michelle, but the conservatives who have so caricatured
Michelle and The Messiah.
Is there a media double standard? You betcha.
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