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Believing The Worst
by L. Brent Bozell III
June 3, 2005
There is an unspoken but real impulse in today’s media to see themselves as “independent” of America, even above America, not so much because they are superior to America but because America is so egregiously flawed. It is their role to shed light on America’s failings. They’re not keen at being seen as Americans. They choke at the idea of wearing flag pins. ABC boss David Westin tried so hard to be above America that he wanted to stay neutral on the question of whether our Pentagon is a legitimate target for terrorists.
It explains why so many reporters are willing to believe the absolute worst about our current government and its motives. So disdainful have they become that they are silent when fellow journalists claim – without a shred of evidence – that American soldiers are engaging in targeting and assassinating journalists hostile to America’s foreign policy aims.
"…But Eason Jordan wasn’t the only journalist to make this scurrilous charge…Linda Foley, the leader of the Newspaper Guild, echoed the Jordan line at a leftist conference in St. Louis on May 13. She charged that the U.S. military “target and kill journalists from other countries, particularly Arab countries” and, in the case of Al-Jazeera, “they actually target them and blow up their studios with impunity.”
The evidence presented? None. But outside of Fox News and Thomas Lipscomb of the Chicago Sun-Times, the major media are taking a holiday on Foley’s remarks.
"…Joining Foley on that Champaign panel was Orville Schell, dean of the graduate school of journalism at Berkeley, who expressed the dominant media ethos well: “What we need is a news service that doesn’t belong to any country.” They want a People’s Republic of Medialand, a stateless organization of anti-war activists – the journalistic equivalent of the United Nations, Amnesty International, and a World Court of Public Opinion rolled into one.
“…I have heard from many soldiers who have seen the way the American media have ignored their medal-winning heroes while they made household names of the sliver of sickos at Abu Ghraib; who have seen the media spend weeks laboring over the minutest “mistreatment” of the Koran; who have seen their rebuilding deeds and anti-insurgent victories ignored while media outlets tout the efficiency and well-organized nature of insurgent violence…”
mediaresearch.org/BozellColumns/newscolumn/2005/col20050603.asp
by L. Brent Bozell III
June 3, 2005
There is an unspoken but real impulse in today’s media to see themselves as “independent” of America, even above America, not so much because they are superior to America but because America is so egregiously flawed. It is their role to shed light on America’s failings. They’re not keen at being seen as Americans. They choke at the idea of wearing flag pins. ABC boss David Westin tried so hard to be above America that he wanted to stay neutral on the question of whether our Pentagon is a legitimate target for terrorists.
It explains why so many reporters are willing to believe the absolute worst about our current government and its motives. So disdainful have they become that they are silent when fellow journalists claim – without a shred of evidence – that American soldiers are engaging in targeting and assassinating journalists hostile to America’s foreign policy aims.
"…But Eason Jordan wasn’t the only journalist to make this scurrilous charge…Linda Foley, the leader of the Newspaper Guild, echoed the Jordan line at a leftist conference in St. Louis on May 13. She charged that the U.S. military “target and kill journalists from other countries, particularly Arab countries” and, in the case of Al-Jazeera, “they actually target them and blow up their studios with impunity.”
The evidence presented? None. But outside of Fox News and Thomas Lipscomb of the Chicago Sun-Times, the major media are taking a holiday on Foley’s remarks.
"…Joining Foley on that Champaign panel was Orville Schell, dean of the graduate school of journalism at Berkeley, who expressed the dominant media ethos well: “What we need is a news service that doesn’t belong to any country.” They want a People’s Republic of Medialand, a stateless organization of anti-war activists – the journalistic equivalent of the United Nations, Amnesty International, and a World Court of Public Opinion rolled into one.
“…I have heard from many soldiers who have seen the way the American media have ignored their medal-winning heroes while they made household names of the sliver of sickos at Abu Ghraib; who have seen the media spend weeks laboring over the minutest “mistreatment” of the Koran; who have seen their rebuilding deeds and anti-insurgent victories ignored while media outlets tout the efficiency and well-organized nature of insurgent violence…”
mediaresearch.org/BozellColumns/newscolumn/2005/col20050603.asp