Saturday, May 18, 2013

The Problem with Modern Journalism

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CBS News president David Rhodes has a brother named Ben who is Obama's deputy national security adviser for strategic communication, especially concerning the Middle East. Ben Rhodes wrote Obama's infamous Cairo speech. His brother is the CBS News president. It speaks for itself. Now we know that Ben Rhodes was a key player in revising the Benghazi talking points last September. So does it make perfect sense that his brother would carry the agenda of his brother? His brother at CBS News?

No brother wants to harm another brother. If your brother's writing Obama's speeches, if your brother is moderating, monitoring and altering the talking points, and you're at CBS News, what you are gonna do, you gonna expose the talking points as fraudulent? No way. Journalism has many more problems than getting it wrong. Because, as I say, honest mistakes can be corrected, like that, I mean, instantly, you can fix it instantly. That's not the problem.

Try this. The president of ABC News's sister also works for Obama. Ben Sherwood, ABC News president, sister Elizabeth Sherwood Randall, special assistant to Barack Obama. She's also a specialist on the Middle East. CNN's deputy bureau chief, Virginia Moseley, is married to Hillary Clinton's former deputy Tom Nides. Tom Nides was Hillary's deputy secretary of state for management and resources. So it's no wonder that Benghazi, along with every other Obama scandal has been soft peddled by CBS, ABC, and CNN. And of course Obama's close relationship with NBC goes without saying.

Let's look at it this way. If my brother were not a columnist and agent, but instead wrote Mitt Romney speeches, do you think there would be attention paid to that, by the Drive-By Media? They think nothing of it. Dana Bash, CNN, her ex-husband worked for Jane Harman. You would be stunned to learn of all of the spouses of news people who work for the administration or members of Congress or the Senate. You would be blown away. David Gregory, Meet the Press. His wife is one of the chief lawyers, or was, over at Fannie Mae. Do you think they're gonna get honest reporting at NBC about the subprime mortgage scandal? Nothing that's gonna hurt his wife is gonna be reported there, I guarantee it. I mean, it's just human nature. That town is incestuous.

It's what I've always meant when I've talked about liberals run that town, both professionally and socially. Jay Carney, his wife is Claire Shipman, formerly of CNN, now of ABC. Jay Carney used to work at TIME Magazine. Actually, he worked for Biden. He left TIME Magazine to work for Biden, got bored there, or worked so well there he got promoted to the White House when Gibbs left. But you would be amazed to learn of all of these things.

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