Category: Journalism

Gamechanger Shows Media Corruption

A private Google group called Gamechanger Salon set up by leftwing activist Billy Wimsatt has more than  1,000 members reports EAGnews.org

The members included a CNN contributor, two a U.S. News & World Report columnist and a producer for Al Jazeera American television.

The group’s existence was discovered by Media Trackers through an open records request filed with a University of Wisconsin professor who happened to be a member of the network.

What is discussed on the board is how to advance socialism through the media outlets entrusted to them.

It is proof positive of widespread dishonesty in the establishment media and that only a fool would trust it.

Read the entire story here.

Hat tip Breitbart.com

 

Gamechanger Shows Media Corruption

Gamechanger Shows Media Corruption

 

Witness Protection Program Has Heritage

Alex Mayyasi has a great article on the history of the Witness Protection Program at Priceonomics.com.

Mayyasi describes the program a being one of three major factors — the RICO Act and the use of wiretapes being the others —  in beating the Mafia.

Mayyasi writes that U.S. Marshals have relocated 8,500 witnesses since the program formally began in 1971 and that no one who has stayed in the program has been killed.

He says family roots have sprung from the program.

“I know witnesses who had children, and now they’re grandparents,” he quotes one employee as saying. “I doubt their grandchildren have a clue about their grandparents’ past.”

 

Witness Protection Program Has Heritage

 

Witness Protection Program Has Heritage

New York Times Graham Spanier Whitewash

The New York Times Magazine carried a paen, July 16, to disgraced former Penn State President Graham Spanier, by Micahel Sokolove.

Sokolove practically acquits him of the charges filed against him stemming from his handling of reports that one-time football coach and retired faculty member Jerry Sandusky was abusing children.

The charges were filed on Nov. 1, 2012 and are one count perjury,  two counts of endangering the welfare of children, two counts of criminal conspiracy, which are all third-degree felonies  punishable by up to seven years in prison and $15,000 fines; one count of obstructing the administration of law or other governmental function and one count of criminal conspiracy, both second-degree misdemeanors punishable by up to two years in prison and $5,000 fines; and one count of failure to report suspected child abuse, a summary offense punishable by up to 90 days in prison and a $300 fine.

“The case against Spanier is at best problematic, at worst fatally flawed,” Sokolove says.

Sokolove writes about how the 66-year-old Spanier’s father flew into a rage at everything and beat him and made him eat everything on his plate and sometimes sent him to bed without dinner.

Sokolove writes that Spanier grew Penn State “from a remote outpost of American higher education into a top-tier public university” and had some of “world’s most decorated architects” design the new buildings on his watch.

He writes that Sokolove “paid his own way through Iowa State.”

Regarding the e-mails that led to the charges, Sokolove says that Spanier says he has no memory of writing it but that using the word “vulnerable” as in “The only downside for us is if the message isn’t ‘heard’ and acted upon, and we then become vulnerable for not having reported it. But that can be assessed down the road” was a bad idea.

And he blames the late Joe Paterno, anyway.

Maybe Sokolove’s biggest journalistic failure was his omission of any reference to the John T. Neisworth matter in which Spanier was told by a young man in 2002 about how Neisworth, a respected Penn State special education professor who literally wrote the book on autism, molested him. Neisworth would make a six-figure cash settlement to the man.

The contact was made with Spanier two weeks after Spanier had been told about Sandusky.

The New York Times whitewash is almost enough to make one take David Icke seriously.

 

New York Times Graham Spanier Whitewash

New York Times Graham Spanier Whitewash

 

 

Amnesty Supporters Better See Other Side

The lovely Christine Flowers, in yesterday’s, Aug. 3, Delaware County Daily Times had an article decrying the plight of the Latin American children flooding our border that included some bald criticisms of those angry and concerned about it.

Christine, an immigration lawyer who personally knows some of the refugees, had some points it must be recognized. Mercy is good. Compassion is good. Children should be protected. Many of these children who came across should be allowed to stay.

However, once those things are conceded, questions must be asked. Is  an open border with Mexico a good thing? Especially right now? Is she advocating one? Does she really believe our immigration and border laws are unnecessary and unjust?

If that is the case, she ought to have the guts to come right out and say it. If not, she better start suggesting some ways of enforcing them. For some strange reason, amnesty supporters never do. It’s a one-way street with them.

We don’t think the solution is all that complicated, namely we stop rewarding people for breaking the law. If we were to require E-Verify to be in every government agency and school, 90 percent of the problems would end.

Further why aren’t state and local law enforcement allowed to act upon the immigration laws when it makes sense for them to do so? People who ask this are called names but their arguments are not rebutted. Of course, it is pretty hard to rebut an argument that law enforcement officers enforce laws.

Finally we must demand reform in the corrupt kleptocracies that make up the nations that flood us with illegals. There is a reason why these people want to come here, after all. Once adequate reform is made,  their citizens will stop trying to cross our border and if the reform is adequate enough we might not even care if the border is open.

If amnesty supporters really want a nation built upon the principle of “out of many one” they better stop with the “my way or you’re a bigot” attitude.

Amnesty Supporters Better See Other Side

Amnesty Supporters Better See Other Side

Howard Stern Blast Wind MSNBC

Krystal Ball Howard Stern Blast Wind MSNBC

The Democrat Party in 2010 felt that Krystal Ball should be among those who should be writing our laws. She was hired by MSNBC after she lost.

Krystal Ball — yes that is her real name — of MSNBC’s The Cycle thought she had a scoop.

A man claiming to be “Staff Sgt. Michael Boyd of the U.S. embassy in the Ukraine” had contacted her network and said he witnessed the shooting down of  Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.

He was put on the air. Miss Ball asked him what he saw “on the ground”.

He said “Well, I was looking out the window and I saw a projectile flying through the sky and it would appear that the plane was shot down by a blast of wind from Howard Stern’s ass.”

Miss Ball responded saying “So it would appear that the plane was shot down. Can you tell us any more from your military  training of what sort of missile system that may have been coming from?”

It was clearly a question the prankster did not expect. He called her a “dumbass” and hung up.

It was then  Miss Ball’s turn for confusion.  She asked for clarification and allowed several seconds of dead air waiting for a response before going to a break.

Miss Ball was the Democrat nominee for the First District Congressional race in Virginia in 2010.

Idiocracy has arrived.

Here is the interview.

Barack Obama spent yesterday snarling in traffic in Delaware to lunch at a mediocre hamburger joint.

Howard Stern Blast Wind MSNBC

Hat tip Bryan Preston at PJMedia.com

 

Sean Bergin Speaks Truth, Gets Suspended

Sean Bergin Speaks Truth, Gets Suspended

Sean Bergin a reporter for News12, which is a “cable-exclusive service” for the New York metropolitan area, was suspended for what he said while reporting the death of rookie Jersey City police officer Melvin Santiago.

Santiago was shot in ambush in Jersey City by area-resident Lawrence Campbell who apparently was motivated “to be famous”.

He was 23.

Campbell acquired the murder weapon by assaulting a security guard at the  Walgreens drug store where the shooting occurred.

Campbell was subsequently shot by police leaving behind a wife, Angelique, and at least one child, a six-year-old girl.

Mrs. Campbell did not express much regret for her husband’s passing. She did say that she wished he had murdered more human beings serving as police officers before his date with judgement.

Campbell’s friends set up a small shrine at the store featuring candles, balloons,  a bottle of cheap liquor (empty), and gang paraphernalia urging the late citizen to “Thug in Peace”.

It was too much for Bergin. He said this:

“It is worth noting that we were besieged, flooded with calls from police officers furious that we would give media coverage to the wife of a cop killer. We decided to air it because it is important to shine a light on the anti-cop mentality that has so contaminated America’s inner cities. This same, sick, perverse line of thinking is evident from Jersey City to Newark and Patterson to Trenton. It has made the police officer’s job impossible and it has got to stop.

“The underlying cause for all of this, of course: Young black men growing up without fathers. Unfortunately, no one in the news media has the courage to touch that subject.”

His employers were displeased and suspended him.

We say God bless Sean Bergin for speaking truth to power.

Here is the report itself:

Sean Bergin Speaks Truth, Gets Suspended

 

Juiceboxers Take Media Ignorance To New Level

As bad as the bias was that permeated the institutions that supplied the news for most Americans things have taken a frightening turn for the worse.

Those who write for the sources our self-described intellectual elites favor have shown themselves to be not merely ignorant of the basics of their beats but shamelessly so.

It’s like something out of movie Idiocracy, which was made but eight years ago.

Mollie Hemingway writing for TheFederalist.Com lays things out in all their ugliness.

She notes that New York Times writer Kate Zernike had no idea who Friedrich Hayek was. (Answer: the author of “Road to Serfdom” and the Nobel Prize winner for Economic Sciences in 1974.)

She excoriates David Savage of the Los Angeles Times who wrote earlier this month about that Supreme Court decisions under Chief Justice John Roberts saying they  “rely on well-established rights, such as freedom of speech and free exercise of religion, but extend those rights for the first time to corporations, wealthy donors and conservatives.”

So people who disagree with him who he calls “conservatives” didn’t have free speech until now?

How do these idiots get hired?

Ms. Hemingway describes how Ron Fournier of Vox (a new media site that hipsters think is hip) mixed up a map showing rates of gun ownership with that of gun violence.

She  points out that fellow Voxster Matt Yglesias mocked an airline for saying that the African nation of Ghana has giraffes by tweeting out a map of Africa saying “Where giraffes live versus where Ghana is”.

She gives a special category to Yglesias who wrote about South Florida without knowing what the Everglades was.

The name “juiceboxers” has been coined for these hip young precious pumpkins who were raised to believe  that whatever they said was right as long as it parroted political and social fashion.

Let us make sure they are not the future of communication.

 

Hat tip Ed Driscoll.

 

Juiceboxers Take Media Ignorance To New Level

Juiceboxers Take Media Ignorance To New Level

 

 

 

Philadelphia Press Association 69th Banquet

Philadelphia Press Association 69th Banquet

Congratulations to Philadelphia Press Association winners Margie Royal, Peg DeGrassa, Anne Neborak and David Bjorkgren from the Delco News Network. With them (center) is Association President Pat Delsi.

Yesterday, June 8, was the Association’s 69th Annual Award banquet which was held at Anthony’s Creative Italian Cuisine in Haddon Heights, N.J.

The food was delicious and far surpassed typical banquet fair. Kudos to Press Association treasurer Renee Winkler for her choice of beer and wine.

Margie won honorable mention for Newspaper Writing Weekly Division; Peg won third place Newspaper Writing Weekly Division, and second and third place for Business Coverage Combined; Anne won first and second place for Sports Photography, first place for Feature Photography, third place for Breaking News Photography, and second place for Newspaper Writing Weekly; and David won first and second place for Column Writing Weekly, and first place for Editorial Writing.

The complete list of winners can be found at the Philadelphia Press Association website.

Philadelphia Press Association 69th Banquet

 

 

 

Really Lousy Journalism Lessons

Mollie Z. Hemingway has an excellent article on what it takes to be a really bad journalist.

Don’t sweat the details, she says. Don’t question authority.

She says to remember the job is to advance narratives, not report facts.

Yes, it is sarcasm.

Yes, she cites chapter and verse as to how these practices are standard operating procedure in the establishment media.

The article is a year old but is still relevant. It can be found here.

Really Lousy Journalism Lessons

 

Really Lousy Journalism Lessons

Inquirer Owner Lewis Katz Dead

Lewis Katz

Lewis Katz, 72, the co-owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer whose side just won a bitter struggle for control of the paper, is among the seven killed in a plane crash last night, May 31, in Massachusetts.

The crash happened about 9:40 p.m. as  the Gulfstream IV was taking off from Hanscom Field in New Bedford for Atlantic City.

Also killed were passengers Anne Leeds, 74; Marcella Dalsey, the executive director of the Drew A. Katz Foundation and president of KATZ Acdemy Charter School;  Susan Asbell, 68, of Cherry Hill, who was a member of the planning committee of the Boys and Girls Club of Camden County; and three crew members whose names were not released.

Katz was in Massachusetts to attend an education-related event at the home of historian Doris Kerns Goodwin in Concord.

Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell  declined to attend due to a another engagement. He would have been on the flight.

On May 27, Katz and H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest paid $88 milllion  to interests led by New Jersey insurance executive George Norcross III to achieve controlling interest of the Inquirer and its affiliated products.

Inquirer Owner Lewis Katz Dead