Politico’s VandeAllem Discuss “Battered Media Syndrome” and Why They Are Obama Lapdogs Still

from Brietbart:

Politico’s Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen (VandeAllen) must have recently woke up feeling a little dirty about themselves and their chosen profession. Maybe it was due to Obama not leaving any money on the dresser this weekend. Whatever the motivation, it is fun to read their long, rambling rationalization for why they, their awful publication, and the media as a whole have spent the last four years willingly assuming the position of Obama’s footstool.

What we obviously have here is a case of Battered Media Syndrome. The media obediently adore, ferociously protect, and do everything Barack tells them to do. But right now the media are feeling a little taken for granted — battered, if you will.  But rather than stand up for themselves, the boys at Politico have composed a love letter to Obama, that says in so many words: You only treat us bad because you’re so amazing!

for the full article: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/02/19/Politicos-VandeHei-and-Allen-Why-Were-Obamas-Lapdogs

WeaselZippers: CNN Commits a Random Act of Reporting!!

CNN Report: White House Chose To Leave Out Key Intelligence From Benghazi Attack

See video. http://weaselzippers.us/2012/10/01/cnn-report-white-house-chose-to-leave-out-key-intelligence-from-benghazi-attack/

Chicago Cop to Reporter: Your 1st Amendment Rights can be Terminated!

from RightNewz:

Two NBC journalists were handcuffed and threatened by Chicago police after attempting to report on the murder of a 6-year-old girl yesterday, NBC Chicago reports.

Another NBC journalist was also detained by police outside Mt. Sinai Hospital, where the girl had been taken following a fatal shooting during city wide violence over the weekend.

Police were called to the hospital shortly after reporters arrived on the scene. The journalists said they has already moved away from a public sidewalk and across the street at the request of the police.

One police officer was then caught on camera telling other members of the media “Your First Amendment right can be terminated if you’re creating a scene or whatever. Your First Amendment right has got limitations.”

When the reporters asked for clarification on how they were creating a scene, the officer replied, “Your presence is creating a scene.”

“This is what we do for a living!” one reporter replied, before another added”You’ve got a lawsuit coming.”

“I don’t care about no damn lawsuit!” the officer fired back. “F*ck a lawsuit. Just ’cause you sue doesn’t mean you’re going to win.”

Photographer Donte Williams and WGN Reporter Dan Ponce were then handcuffed and briefly detained by the officer.

for article sources and Video: http://therightnewz.com/?p=1526

Sounds “Pravda-Esque”:Press @ Dept of Labor Cannot Use Their Own Equipment; Must Use Government-Issued Computers, Etc.

“Second, as a measure toward enhancing security in its main lockup facility (the DOL news room), the department will supply and maintain standardized equipment with a standard configuration for all participants. This change means that privately owned computer and telephone equipment, including hardware, software, cabling, wiring and Internet and telephone lines will be replaced with equipment owned by the department.”

“In other words, journalists will no longer be allowed to bring their laptops or other equipment to the lockups, they will have to use government-supplied equipment, described by Fillichio as including “a virtualized desktop running a Windows operation system, a web browser, word-processing software, an Adobe Reader application and secure file transfer capability. Equipment provided will not have wireless networking capability. Provisions will be in place for news organizations to transmit their stories over the Internet.”

For full article:

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/dol-forcing-media-use-government-computers/479421

 

So much for the idea of “Free Press” and “Freedom of Speech”. This is the direct result of the media not exercising professional journalism.

Attorney Uses Journalist’s Own Tactics to Show How Innuendo Changed the Rick Perry Hunting Camp Story

On October 1, the Washington Post published a story by reporter Stephanie McCrummenin which she noted that early in his political career, GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry hosted lawmakers at a family hunting camp labeled near its entrance as “Niggerhead.” Castle Rock attorney Mike Robinson found the report full of dubious innuendo — so he decided to “use the same methodology she did” by investigating McCrummen and framing his findings in the most damning way possible.

 

The result was “Washington Post Staff Writer Who Wrote Rick Perry Attack Piece Has Criminal Past,” published on the conservative site RedState.com. (It’s also available via Examiner.com, which includes the Post photo of McCrummen seen here.) In the piece, he argues that while “a careful read of the story shows that there is no substantiation for the allegations of racism, Ms. McCrummen, the Post, and MSNBC have held a non-stop witch hunt, accusing Mr. Perry of everything under the sun. So, let’s examine the author using the same journalistic standards practiced by the Washington Post.”

 

Stephanie McCrummen.

​Shortly thereafter, Robinson announces that “Ms. McCrummen has a rather interesting criminal history herself, as public criminal records in multiple states stretching across 4 time zones.” The first violation took place almost twenty years ago in North Carolina — writing a “hot check.” Then, circa 2005, “the apparently unrepentant Ms. McCrummen” was found guilty in Virginia of failing to obey a highway sign. The next year, also in Virginia, she was caught driving 46 miles per hour in a 25 mph zone. And finally, in August 2010, while in Arizona, she sped again and paid her fine two months late after being tracked down as part of a collection-review program. Thus, McCrummen is “a four-time loser in the states’ criminal courts.”

 

Does Robinson believe these infractions make McCrummen unsuitable to work as a reporter for a major national news organization. “Gosh, no,” he says from his Castle Rock office. “That’s normal stuff anybody would have on their record. I’ll bet I could go through your record, or anybody’s, and do guilt-by-association things just like that.

For full article: http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2011/10/rick_perry_nggerhead_stephanie_mccrummen_washington_post.php

Veteran Journalists Consider Today’s Reporters “Wimps”

 

“Several veteran and prize-winning journalists who covered presidents from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush say that the current crop of White House correspondents are too timid and deferential and have played a role in killing the impact of presidential news conferences.”

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/05/17/veteran-journalists-todays-white-house-reporters-are-too-timid

 

25th Anniversary as a Columnist: Krauthammer Reflects

To be doing every day what you enjoy doing is rare. Rarer still is to be doing what you were meant to do, particularly if you got there by sheer serendipity. Until near 30, I’d fully expected to spend my life as a doctor. My present life was never planned or even imagined. An intern at The New Republic once asked me how to become a nationally syndicated columnist. “Well,” I replied, “first you go to medical school. …”

For his full column: http://townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/12/18/an_anniversary_of_sorts?page=full&comments=true

Newspapers have Killed Themselves

Business and Media Institute’s Dan Gainor before the U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy of the Committee on journalism and the media.

 

http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2009/04/24/newspapers-are-dying-because-journalism-is-a-joke/

 

“While it is fair to blame much of the decline in newspapers to technology, it is not the only factor. The newspaper industry has changed too – for the worse. Standards have slipped or all but disappeared. The concept of a journalist as a neutral party has become a punch line for a joke, not a guideline for an industry.

We all saw how poorly the mainstream press covered the last election. According to the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, voters believed that the media wanted Barack Obama to win the presidential election. “By a margin of 70%-9%, Americans say most journalists want to see Obama, not John McCain, win,” Pew reported. Other surveys confirmed it: According to Rasmussen, “Over half of U.S. voters (51%) think reporters are trying to hurt Sarah Palin.”