We’ve seen the evidence mounting over the last several years of professional journalism’s slide from respectable fourth estate to irrelevant outlet for liberal activism. We’ve seen Dan Rather’s “fake but accurate” forged-document-based assassination attempt on George W. Bush, and Chris Matthews’s tingly-legged assertion that his job as an objective journalist, while formerly being centered on bringing down the Bush administration, is now to ensure that Barack Obama’s tenure in the White House is a “success,” regardless of the facts or the cost.
We’ve seen the shoddy workmanship on the part of Reuters and CNN, which have unquestioningly published faked photographs and videos provided by stringers and terrorist outlets simply because they fit in with those journalists’ worldview by purporting to show innocent Palestinian civilians being massacred by evil Zionist storm troopers.
We’ve heard former CNN head Eason Jordan admit Saddam’s atrocities were swept under the rug by Baghdad-based journalists out of a desire to keep that pointless “news” bureau open, and we’ve witnessed a nationwide mainstream media apparatus in fully operational Death Star mode with regard to a vice presidential nominee who made the mistake of simultaneously being the wrong sex, a member of the wrong party, incredibly popular, and an opponent of the Democratic candidate that media apparatus had decided must, at all costs, become the next President of the United States.
We’ve seen a major news magazine run with a story of the slaughter of Iraqi civilians at the hands of cold-blooded Americans before actually checking those facts, and then drop the topic like a hot rock rather than report that the results of an investigation showed the report, and alleged atrocities, were largely works of fiction from the outset.
