But that hasn’t stopped their use of named dodgy sourcing, as this article yesterday demonstrates. Buried towards the bottom is another large and unverified body count from one of the names tagged by CENTCOM as dubious sources whose employment and eve…

Every time I read about another ethical lapse like this AP mess, I am reminded that the students who seemed most put-out by having to take one prerequisite course in ethics were, more often than not, the very ones who went on to become minions of the MSM professional journalists.

A NOTICE to the Associated Press: If, within 24 hours of this posting, your Iraq bureau has not given definitive proof of the existence and authenticity of “Police Captain Jamil Hussein,” this blog will declare that the AP has admitted that this “of…

Take this, Mad Blog Rabble! The JYB News Bureau has unearthed a photo of AP Iraq super-reporter Qais al-Bashir in the same room as the mysterious insurgency spokesman tipster Capt. Jamil Hussein. Well, it’s more of a photo of a……

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First things first for today’s update on the AP’s fraudulent story "The Burning Six". Thanks to Jessica Well for making these two icons for all to share on their blogs.  Take them and put them up: Meanwhile Mark Tapscott writes……

They will never be able to fully silence bloggers but the only way to really hold them to account is through the government
Lancer on December 5, 2006 at 2:07 PM

Sorry to disagree Lancer, but government has rarely solved any problem. And in imposing its solution it has usually caused more problems. The people will be the final arbitor in what is accepted and not. The MSM is losing revenue, and that will bring change. It is a slow process, but as more is revealed they must either adopt new rules of reporting, or lose their readership (profits). Right now they feel they are stronger than the blogs and are standing and fighting. They have been in power so long they won’t recognize(like any tyannical historical dictator) when they are about to lose it. Their power and influence is slipping away. If it wasn’t for sports news and business news, and free coupons, most of the MSM would not be read.

Circulation for the NY Times must really be down–they are literally giving the paper away at the university I teach at.

The Boston Globe, as part of the Times Family, is finacially killing the Times Co.

With the Red Sox dropping $60 mil on JD Drew and potentially $90-100 mil on a Japanese pitcher ($50 mil just to talk to the guy), I can’t imagine the Times getting any ROI for the 17% of the Red Sox they own as well.

Matt Helm on December 5, 2006 at 1:48 PM

Great post Matt; very insightful connecting the two ideologies.

MSM won’t succeed, the genie has been let out. The blogs are the new watch dogs. And if one of them gets out of kilter, another will right it. Now if we could just get some bloggers into congress…

But the Church was trying to preserve the civilization at least, not undermine it.

True. One of the things I always try to do in the classes I teach is to dispell the misconception of the Church as an institution out to suppress all learning and knowledge. While it could and did suppress knowledge on occasions (Galileo, Copernicus), more often than not, churchmen were at the forefront of learning: Roger Bacon, William of Ockham, Peter Abelard, are just few examples.

Returning to the topic: I agree that the President and his administration has dropped the ball on dealing with leakers to the press and as well as dealing with the NY Times which has willfully, and I might add maliciously, published classified documents putting lives at risk. I firmly believe in a free press–it is necessary element for a free society to exist. But with freedom comes responsibility. The press is a part of society–it is not outside or above it, and it has the duty to act in a responsible manner and not put our society at risk. The actions of the Associated Press and New York Times is putting our society at risk.

PS: Circulation for the NY Times must really be down–they are literally giving the paper away at the university I teach at.

But the Church was trying to preserve the civilization at least, not undermine it. They will never be able to fully silence bloggers but the only way to really hold them to account is through the government. President Bush had excellent opportunities to do this in the last 2 years. NYT reporters possibly committing Obstruction of Justice, others effectively committing espionage and treason by leaking secrets that help the terrorists. Bush should have revoked NYT’s press credentials throught the executive branch and made a point to sic FBI Counterintelligence after NYT and whatever oathbreakers in the government are compromising national security to satisfy their BDS. But he didn’t, and he won’t.

This evolutionary process was moving along relatively smoothly until a monkey wrench was thrown into the process: the internet and the active blogosphere that has evolved. Blogs such as this one, LGF, Michelle’s and others have disrupted this movement and we’re seeing the media attempting through publicity, legislation, and other means to neutralize these challenges. It’ll be interesting to see whether the media succeeds in its goal or not–hopefully for all concerned, it doesn’t.

It’s time for the rest of us to grow some balls and call these Islamic terrorist PR media fronts what they are. Traitors.

In my opinin the MSM has long been using tactics ranging from persuasion to fraud in their “reporting” to influence public policy to their Left biased political agenda. Many components of the MSM are not engaged in “news” but providing propaganda that is approved of by the Left. Don’t bother them with the facts or call them on inaccuracies – they are not interested.

The “Freedom of the Press” according to the MSM means not questioning them when they disclose classified information crucial to the interests of the United States – and don’t question their “reporting” because if it is published or broadcast it must be true. “Freedom of the Press” according to the MSM is a free ticket to publish whatever they want to support their political agenda and their bias to the Left.

This abuse of the “Freedom of the Press”, to print propaganda disguised as “reporting”, supports political positions so far to the Left that they are the biggest single weakness that the United States has. Many of the enemies and opponents of the United States do not gage their success on military victories but on how effectively they have used the Western Press to mold public opinion to their favor. The MSM often happily is complicent in these efforts as long as it supports their political agenda – detriment to the interests of the United States is not a consideration.

The MSM is slowly loosing some appeal but focus is needed on how this state of affairs, the MSM using the shield of “Freedom of the Press” to distribute propaganda to support their bias to the Left, can be resisted. Any Ideas?

Her thesis goes something like this: “Did you hear the story about the 6 Iraqi Sunnis that were burned alive in the street in Baghdad? There is good reason to believe that it didn’t happen. In fact, very little that you might have heard about what is happening in the Middle East is accurate.”

Can’t wait to hear what her leftist professor of diverse speech has to say about it. Heh.