Saturday, November 1, 2008

VDH: The End Of Journailsm


Memo to all the Obama sycophants and cheerleaders in the so-called "journalism" department of the brothel known as The American Media: The Jig Is Up (no pun intended).
"There have always been media biases and prejudices. Everyone knew that Walter Cronkite, from his gilded throne at CBS news, helped to alter the course of the Vietnam War, when, in the post-Tet depression, he prematurely declared the war unwinnible. Dan Rather's career imploded when he knowingly promulgated a forged document that impugned the service record of George W. Bush. We've known for a long time - from various polling, and records of political donations of journalists themselves, as well as surveys of public perceptions - that the vast majority of journalists identify themselves as Democratic, and liberal in particular.

Yet we have never quite seen anything like the current media infatuation with Barack Obama, and its collective desire not to raise key issues of concern to the American people.

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The media has succeeded in shielding Barack Obama from journalistic scrutiny. It thereby irrevocably destroyed its own reputation and forfeited the trust that generations of others had so carefully acquired. And it will never again be trusted to offer candid and nonpartisan coverage of presidential candidates."
I disagree only in the details -- that is to say, journalism died a long time ago; what occurred this election was just one final putrid outgassing from the long-rotting carcass of Dead Journalism.

Let us rejoice, for now we now know it's all propaganda, as so many of us have been saying for so long. All the media did was provide the incontrovertible evidence, however unwittingly. We can now just ignore the media's charade of impartiality and choose which opinions to read without any pretense of impartiality.

BTW, I have to take a piss... where, exactly, is Journalism's grave?