Category Archives: Journalism

May 18, 2012

Documentary on Fast and Furious Scandal in Production Phase

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When this all shakes out in the end Holder and company won’t be the only ones with blood on their hands. How about a criminally silent media?

An Emmy award-winning filmmaker has decided he cannot stay silent in the face of a massive cover-up by the media complex and the Obama administration.

The magnitude of the government’s involvement in Operation Fast and Furious has roused documentarian Michael J. McNulty to stand up and call out the bad guys. Attorney General Eric Holder will figure prominently in McNulty’s feature length documentary, “Blood On Their Hands.”

McNulty was already familiar with Holder. In an interview on Breitbart.com McNulty stated, “Eric’s been busy in the cover up business for 20 years. We sorta know how he operates.”

Holder had become Janet Reno’s number two at Justice the same year McNulty’s1997 Oscar- nominated film “Waco: The Rules of Engagement” was released. When Reno recused herself from a 1999 special investigation of the 1993 raid on the Branch Davidian compound, Holder took over.

According to McNulty he wants the Fast and Furious film to answer one simple question:

Why would the Attorney General of the United States give our money and assault weapons to Mexican drug cartel members all in the name of the American people’s government?

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May 17, 2012

Is A Race War Being Censored To Avoid White Backlash? by Thomas Sowell

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A wave of such attacks in Chicago were reported, but not the race of the attackers or victims. Media outlets that do not report the race of people committing crimes nevertheless report racial disparities in imprisonment and write heated editorials blaming the criminal justice system.

When two white newspaper reporters for the Virginian-Pilot were driving through Norfolk, and were set upon and beaten by a mob of young blacks — beaten so badly that they had to take a week off from work — that might seem to have been news that should have been reported, at least by their own newspaper. But it wasn’t.

“The O’Reilly Factor” on Fox News Channel was the first major television program to report this incident. Yet this story is not just a Norfolk story, either in what happened or in how the media and the authorities have tried to sweep it under the rug.

Similar episodes of unprovoked violence by young black gangs against white people chosen at random on beaches, in shopping malls or in other public places have occurred in Philadelphia, New York, Denver, Chicago, Cleveland, Washington, Los Angeles and other places across the country. Both the authorities and the media tend to try to sweep these episodes under the rug as well.

In Milwaukee, for example, an attack on whites at a public park a few years ago left many of the victims battered to the ground and bloody. But, when the police arrived on the scene, it became clear that the authorities wanted to keep this quiet.

One 22-year-old woman who had been robbed of her cell phone and debit card, and had blood streaming down her face, said:

“About 20 of us stayed to give statements and make sure everyone was accounted for. The police wouldn’t listen to us, they wouldn’t take our names or statements. They told us to leave. It was completely infuriating.”

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Posted in Ethnic Cleansing, Journalism, Multiculturalism, Thomas Sowell

May 13, 2012

Do You Know Anybody Like Obama? Beck’s Latest Expose Could Go Down in History (Video)

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Thursday evening’s episode of the Glenn Beck Program will likely go down in the history books as one of the very few (if not only) recorded instances of another human being exposing President Obama’s myriad personal and professional inconsistencies in such a detailed and profound way.

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Posted in Cultural Marxism, Democrats/Progressives, Journalism, Obama, Radicals

May 11, 2012

The U.S. & the World with Patrick J. Buchanan: Chapter 5 of 5 (Video)

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Pat Buchanan talks about his tenure at MSNBC and how the media impacts society and politics. Pat Buchanan was a speech writer for President Nixon, the communications director for President Reagan, and was a presidential candidate in 1992, 1996 and 2000.

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Posted in Free Speech, Journalism, Pat Buchanan, Patriotism

May 9, 2012

Journalist Booted from Van Jones Event For Asking Tough Questions (Video)

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Granted, the Chicago Green Festival is a private event and has the right to refuse to credential reporters it doesn’t like. However, to strip an already ideologically unfriendly reporter of his credentials while he holds a video camera might not be the best PR move ever invented.

Former White House adviser Van Jones isn’t exactly a shrinking violet – in fact, from what we’ve seen, he relishes conflict. However, that relish might not extend to people who staff the events where he gives his speeches. One video blogger found this out when he tried to clarify a remark that Van Jones had made from the stage at Chicago’s Green Festival to the effect of “Don’t ever let somebody like me in the White House.”

To be fair to Jones, he obviously wasn’t serious. In fact, the remark was intended as a jab at his political opponents, as its full context shows:

“I might have something to say, and maybe that’s why our opponents were so interested in shutting me up, and so, surprise! I’m back!” Jones crowed in his speech. “Don’t ever let somebody like me in the White House, and then insist that I come back out here with all of y’all, because now we can make this thing work.”

The implication is clear: Jones’ opponents actually made him more dangerous by forcing him out of the Obama White House, where his message was tightly controlled, and turning him back into an outsider with no filter.

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May 5, 2012

Lilia Luciano Fired By NBC News Over Botched George Zimmerman Edit

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Luciano is at least the third person to be let go by NBC after it aired misleading clips of the Zimmerman tape. In the edit that has drawn the most attention, viewers heard Zimmerman say that Martin “looks black,” but did not hear the dispatcher he was speaking to ask him what race Martin was.

Another NBC News staffer has been fired over the network’s botched editing of Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman’s 911 tape — but this time, she was let go over an entirely different error from the one that has roiled the division.

TVNewser reported Wednesday that Lilia Luciano, a correspondent based out of Miami, is no longer working with the network. Luciano was one of the chief reporters covering the Martin case, though at least two of her reports appear to have been scrubbed from the “Today” website.

Luciano is at least the third person to be let go by NBC after it aired misleading clips of the Zimmerman tape. In the edit that has drawn the most attention, viewers heard Zimmerman say that Martin “looks black,” but did not hear the dispatcher he was speaking to ask him what race Martin was.

NBC apologized for the error and fired a “Today” producer. A local Miami journalist was also let go.

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May 3, 2012

Many blacks beat white couple, media bury attack

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“The victim’s friend, a young woman, tried to pull him back into his car. Attackers came after her, pulling her hair, punching her head and causing a bloody scratch to the surface of her eye. She called 911. A recording told her all lines were busy. She called again. Busy. On her third try, she got through and, hysterical, could scream only their location. Church and Brambleton. Church and Brambleton. Church and Brambleton. It happened four blocks from where they work, here at the Virginian-Pilot.”

There’s outrage in Norfolk, Va., today after a white couple was attacked by dozens of black teenagers, and the local newspaper did not report on the incident for two weeks, despite the victims being reporters for the paper.

Even today, the Virginian-Pilot did not cover the crime as news, but rather as an opinion piece by columnist Michelle Washington.

“Wave after wave of young men surged forward to take turns punching and kicking their victim,” Washington wrote, describing the onslaught that began when Dave Forster and Marjon Rostami stopped at a traffic light while driving home from a show on a Saturday night. A crowd of at least 100 black young people was on the sidewalk at the time.

“Rostami locked her car door. Someone threw a rock at her window. Forster got out to confront the rock-thrower, and that’s when the beating began. …”

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Posted in Crime, Journalism

May 2, 2012

Rupert Murdoch not fit to run a major company, British panel says

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“The Company fully acknowledges significant wrongdoing at News of the World and apologizes to everyone whose privacy was invaded,” the firm said.

The news just keeps getting worse for media baron Rupert Murdoch.

In a scathingly worded report growing out of the long-running British phone-tapping scandal, a parliamentary committee on Tuesday declared Murdoch “not a fit person” to run a major company — an embarrassing decree that has no immediate effect but further darkens the cloud over Murdoch’s British media operations.

Murdoch, the 81-year-old chief executive of New York-based News Corp., has been beset for many months by the scandal, which involved illegal prying by his British newspaper journalists and hired investigators into the phone accounts of hundreds of British celebrities, executives and newsworthy individuals. British investigators are also looking into accusations of widespread bribery of police and government officials and a coverup by executives of Murdoch’s British newspaper arm, News International.

The fallout hasn’t traveled across the Atlantic to the United States, where Murdoch and News Corp. own their largest and most profitable assets, including Fox News Channel, the Fox broadcast network and the 20th Century Fox studio.

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Posted in Business, Crime, Journalism, Law & Courts

May 1, 2012

Citizens: the new voice in the media

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Citizen journalism is rewriting and recasting the traditional mainstream news narrative. The effectiveness and success of citizen journalists are apparent, as the media now incorporates and responds to their content almost daily.

As news organizations try to adapt to the ever-changing media landscape and one-up competition with creative methods of breaking news, some of their contenders now have nowhere near the resources, training or wherewithal, yet are still having an impact. Where citizen journalists may lack in finances and formal instruction, they’ve made up for in originality and conviction.

Despite their pedestrian status and lack of conventional credentials, the endeavors of citizen journalism shouldn’t be undercut because they’ve influenced meaningful change and gained traction within the traditional media; look at bloggers, WikiLeaks, Occupy Wall Street videos or Andrew Breitbart’s takedown of Anthony Weiner. This new form is groundbreaking because it empowers the average person to potentially dictate or even overturn the news narrative once exclusively directed by traditional media. Where the media may fall short, everyday folks can now whip out a camera, recorder or cellphone and broadcast whatever they want over the Internet, unfiltered by decision-makers who may have otherwise not seen the initial value or even known about an incident.

In their eyes, citizen journalists pick up the slack where traditional media fails. Because the media, based on its own judgment, may have not picked up a story or angle, citizens who feel a story is important enough to make known can now do so. A citizen journalist’s interpretation of the traditional media’s effectiveness and credibility is that it is somewhat imperfect, which it, of course, is. After all, nothing is entirely perfect, and pretending there’s an uncontaminated purity is misinformed.

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Posted in Citizen Journalism, Journalism, New Media

April 29, 2012

Rush Limbaugh Savages Media‘s ’Reverse Racism’ in 30 Min Informal Interview With HS Student

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Limbaugh saw the moment as a golden opportunity, and over the course of an impromptu half hour interview with the student, posted on the Daily Rushbo, he laid out a devastatingly comprehensive indictment of the media for keeping racism alive in America by keeping the fear of racism alive.

At least one high school student is about to turn in a red hot paper. Apparently, a Los Angeles area high school has assigned its students to write a paper in History Class dealing with “art or justice.“ One student picked the topic ”Racism in the Mainstream Media.” Yet unlike so many other students, who would have probably gone to radical or Left-wing commentators to point out just how many ways the Media isn’t fearful enough of racism, this student decided to call the last person most educators would expect: Rush Limbaugh.

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You can listen to the full half hour interview in the following videos.

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Posted in Education, Journalism, Political Correctness