Oh, That Liberal Media: Protecting The Guilty

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Sometimes it’s what they don’t want you to know;

There’s almost nothing about the suspect, and even less about the gruesome nature of the crimes. Instead, the [Associated Press] piece mainly goes into great detail to stress that the victims had promising lives.
Why? As details, aren’t the gruesome nature of what happened to them, the fiendish nature of the principal defendant, and the callused insensitivity of the criminal justice system, at least as important?
Rarely have I seen a story so long and yet so woefully incomplete at the same time. Newark is in the New York area, and you’d think that if a report about crime there was important enough to merit treatment on the front page of the Inquirer that they’d at least supply the details.
To find them, I had to turn to the New York Daily News.

On a similar theme, though completely different topic, witness the coverage (including Tom Walters’ on-air version of this CTV report) in which great effort is taken to implicate a retiring Karl Rove in the Plame affair – coverage that manages to avoid any mention of the name of Richard Armitage.

No reporter or lawyer concerned with the case believes that Novak’s original source was any other than Richard Armitage. I have heard it lamely said that, if true, this would “undercut” the idea that Wilson and Plame were targets of an administration vendetta. No. it wouldn’t “undercut” the idea. It would annihilate it. Mr. Armitage exceeds even his own former boss and current best friend Colin Powell in visceral hatred of the neoconservatives. In that sense, and in his collusion with Bob Woodward on the story of the origins of the war, he actually is a “partisan gunslinger”—but on the Wilson side of the argument.

So how does one explain this? How can a “foreign correspondent” working for a major Canadian network not know facts fundamental to one of the most heavily reported political “scandals” in recent US politics?
You’re not expected to answer that. They are.

41 Replies to “Oh, That Liberal Media: Protecting The Guilty”

  1. Yawn. So what should we expect from the media elite. Facts?
    May the enjoy their decline into irrelevance.

  2. Nuanced presentation of an issue, fashioned to the bias of the “gunslinger” journalist / news organization.
    The Armitage story did not fit the the needs of the the Bush hating leftist US MSM.
    CTV simply mimics the leftist US MSM.
    Another Canadian example was Christina Lewand twisting a Harper speech to suit CBC’s purposes on an issue.
    My view is and has been for many years now that national “progressive” Canadian TV are guilty of that type of presentation.
    Not only gatekeepers but manipulators of controversial issues.
    Good move Kate, with the link to the CTV feedback on the subjects issues mentioned.
    I am curious how CTV will respond.
    I am sure your US readers will recognize the similarity in both nation’s MSM bias very clearly.

  6. Not enraged. Just nibbling them to death.
    And Bush’s mistake was to not fire all the Clinton apointed lawyers his first week in office.

  7. I give MSM an A+ for doing what what they do best … really who can beat them at their game. Facts be damned!!!!!

  8. Reading it again, the AP item that CTV reproduced reads more like a post at DailyKos than it does a legitimate news story. Facts aside, note how they drag irrelevancies into the commentary about the Libby trial.
    “The jury in Libby’s trial did not hear that testimony, nor did it hear that Rove is credited as an architect of Republican political victories and has been accused by opponents of playing dirty tricks.”
    Holy crap. Where do they find these people?

  9. Best example I know is how the media suppressed the fact that Marc Lepine was indocrinated by an Algerian Muslim father, and that this was a key factor in his rampage that killed 14 women in Montreal.
    I wonder how many Canadians know this.

  13. Yeah remember when ROBERT ALTON HARRIS was exicuted? the liberal news media was claiming his parents abused him when he was a kid his mom smoked like a chimminey and his father drank like a fish just typcal of a bunch of bleedingheart liberal left-wing journalists i tell you these roten scribblers would have sypathsed with BENIDICT ARNOLD

  14. -And Bush’s mistake was to not fire all the Clinton apointed lawyers his first week in office.
    Yeah THAT was his mistake.

  15. Facts, accuracy and context are clearly overrated when it comes to agenda driven journalism. I can count on one hand the number of national/international outlets that are not repeat offenders in this regard, and none of them are in Canada.
    The market is speaking, and it is saying that people are sick and tired of gross bias and inaccuracy in the news they get. Witness Time Magazine and the troubles of the NYT.
    Better wake up, morons.
    10 years from now, I wonder how much will have changed. The creators of news are changing (internet and citizen reporting) and so is the aggregators and outlets (weblogs). A new business model is forcefully emerging, just like it has with music, and weblogs with traffic in the tens to hundreds of thousands (and then beyond, to millions) of hits per day will start to see big sums of marketing dollars coming their way.
    What does this mean for Canada? Hopefully, no more Liberal Party reigns of terror as voters start to receive accurate information with the appropriate context, and realize that the non-facts put out by those corrupt criminals and their compatriots in the G&M, CBC, CTV et al do not correspond with reality.

  16. After some thought, I will add this:
    Due to government regulation stifling the free market, we will see a watered down version of what should become.
    The suffocating blanket of the CRTC and the sheer value and monopoly of broadcast licenses means it will not carry through to broadcast TV. The internet will supercede that eventually, but not for a while…
    A suggestion:
    Fire the journalism braintrust (oxymoron alert) at the CBC and replace them with a rotating five person board of commentators (including weblog writers, columnists, and others) from across Canada who have shown they can take in information and provide a clear, reasoned analysis with a basis in reality and fact. Put them in charge of editing and producing the myriad of current programming masquerading as news on the CBC.
    A question to ponder, in the same vein as, if a tree falls in a forest and nobody is around, does it make a sound:
    If the CBC spends my money to create Canadian programming, and nobody in Canada watches it, should it be created in the first place?

  17. “And Bush’s mistake was to not fire all the Clinton apointed lawyers his first week in office.”
    Yeah, instead he waited until they were doing things like investigating Republicans for playing dirty pool. This of course is blatantly illegal, which is why Rove & Co are being investigated in the first place.
    This fat little son of a bitch is as dirty as they come. You guys fail to see this, because facts are not something you can even see any more.
    Whether it’s climate change, evolution, lying about the reason to go to war, none of it matters… you would believe anything you’re told to, so long as it spill out of the mouth of a conservative.

  18. Regarding the Newark shootings, the Inquirer did in fact report on the immigration status and criminal history of Jose Carranza. A quick search through the Inquirer’s website would have revealed as much. Instead, SDA links only to the paper’s “get to know the victims” feel-piece, points to this as yet more “evidence” of deliberate liberal bias, and everyone simultaneously nods their heads in smug agreement.
    Yeah, bloggers have such higher investigative standards than the MSM.

  19. “The market is speaking, and it is saying that people are sick and tired of gross bias and inaccuracy in the news they get. Witness Time Magazine and the troubles of the NYT.”
    Not to mention Fox News. Probably the worst offender bias wise. Their ratings are cratering.

  20. “This fat little son of a bitch is as dirty as they come. You guys fail to see this, because facts are not something you can even see any more.”
    Can’t speak for the rest of the “guys” here, but I, for one, think Bush is an idiot, Iraq was handled terribly, and Rove is a con man. Please take your sweeping generalizations and bigotry and stick it up your a$$.

  21. John “Whether it’s climate change, evolution, lying about the reason to go to war, none of it matters”
    To be fair it was a conservative (Bush appointee) judge who torpedoed Intelligent Design’s prospects of being taught in schools. There are conservatives who believe in Reason, they’re just not as noisy as the other kind of conservative.

  23. Mr. Smoke sir, from the article (which it seems you didn’t read):
    “UPDATE: Please bear in mind that I subscribe to the Philadelphia Inquirer, and this post is based on the long article which appears on today’s front page. Commenter Bradley Filkes points out that the Inquirer web site also links another AP story posted today which includes details about Carranza’s illegal status and his being freed on bail. While I’m glad it’s posted at the web site, that story is not in today’s Inquirer.
    MORE: Checking the Inquirer hard copy since Carranza’s arrest Thursday, I found one report mentioning his illegal status and the pending charges, which appeared on page B-2 (minus the picture) in Saturday’s Local News…”
    RTFA, Mr. Smoke. Not to put too fine a point on it, you went to the “no journalistic standards” Internet to fact check. This is called talking the talk, but not walking the walk.
    I continue to watch the stock price of the MSM continue its slow circling of the bowl with a vast satisfaction.

  25. The London (ONT) Free Press this morning carries a CP datelined story on Rove and his (according to CP) involvement in the Plame leak etc.
    No mention that Armitage was the leaker to Novack.
    LFP readers are getting a distorted view of Rove aided and abetted by the biased CP.
    So much for balanced Canadian MSM.
    As for FOX news, Canada could well use some of their bias to counter the leftist bullshit coming from Canadain MSM.

  26. The trend continues in the GTA MSM who are always first to report the tragic shooting crimes plaguing the city but after such an event where there are eye witnesses, the suspect wanted is never fully described…like the press is forbidden from giving the suspect’s physical characteristics if one of those characteristics is a minority race.

  27. Today, it seems, in the schools of “journalism”, so far as facts, omission, manufacturing, and plain making stuff up are the most important points to learn.
    As for the person that has problem with Rove, it would be good to supply one documented fact about his misdeeds. To say that the guy is no good is about as much as you would learn in school of “journalism’.

  28. Jose,
    Fox has more liberals on staff than the entirety of the other outlets have conservatives combined.
    Fox has a lot of loud conservatives on its commentary and pannels. They have a balance in their HARD news. Not a perfect balance. Not even close. But it’s 99% further along the path to objectivity than the monotone, leftard MSM is.
    That you don’t see this says more about the other news outlets and your own bias than FOX. You don’t notice that the other news are 100% biased because that bias matches your own. You notice FOX only because it doesn’t conform to YOUR bias.
    That you leftards think that there should be no right to have a FOX news to counter EVERY other MSM outlet in the market says a lot about YOU. So often I hear tyrant leftards demanding the government silence FOX. You lot demand free speech and freedom of the press only as far as they conform to your demands. If they don’t, your ideals of freedom are shown to be the fraud they are.
    So typical of the hypocritical, oppressive, totalitarian left. Orwell had you lot pegged.

  30. The striking thing about Jose, Ted and Mr. Smoke is that they never seem to have any credible evidence to counter the post. Lots of noise and er… smoke, but no traction.
    Nobody expects perfection from the MSM, just an honest effort to get things right. What we are getting is exactly NOT that. What we are getting is a propaganda campaign labeled as news, and a well documented campaign it is.
    Jose, Ted and Smoke are like the three Marx brothers standing in the elephant cage, up to their ankles in an elephant flop, with a baby elephant trying to stick its trunk into Ted’s ear, screaming “THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS ELEPHANTS!!! NOTHING TO SEE HERE!!! MOVEON!!!!”
    Their motivation for this escapes me, as always. Ted, Jose, Mr. Smoke sir, ya got poo-shoes.

  31. John,
    “This of course is blatantly illegal”
    Prosecutors are appointments that can be changed at any time at the whim of the president. You didn’t deem it illegal that Clinton fired every single one of Bush I’s appointments. It isn’t illegal to replace them at any time. It isn’t illegal just cause Bush is doing it. You leftard extreme hatemongers like to say that everything you don’t like is illegal just cause you don’t like it and any law you don’t like doesn’t apply to you because if you don’t like it, it must not be legitimate. You have a demented, twisted view of the law.
    That Clinton’s partisans chose to enact politically motivated prosecutions isn’t reason not to fire them. It’s the very reason they should have been fired on day one.
    That Bush didn’t find WMD in Iraq doesn’t mean he lied unless you think he talked Chirac, Chrétien, Putin and all the other anti-war world leaders into fudging their country’s intelligence to suit Bush before refusing to join in Bush’s plans. Hard to square that circle. Idiot.
    Error does not equal deliberate intent to lie. Your hate clouds these obvious facts. It isn’t the right that doesn’t see facts but you.
    Evolution is a flawed and incomplete science that is subject to change once more is known through study. That this is so doesn’t justify “creationism” which is nothing more than religion re-crafted in pseudo-scientific language. Multiply a thousand-fold for the “climate change” fraud. When science is polluted by politics, it becomes worthless.
    Your acceptance without question of what scientists tell you is not that much different than what the extreme religious types (which are not all on the right – see Jimmy Carter) believe from their priests and ministers. Scientists are not infallible. Their works are not gospels and even Einstein is subject to revision with further study. Science is never complete. Theories are constantly changing and even what is thought to be “laws” are sometimes changed or discarded.
    In review, it isn’t the rest of us who believes whatever we’re told but you. We’re the ones questioning everything and you’re the one defending everything you’re told. Fool.

  32. Stan, I think The Onion is going to blow a collective brain gasket if they keep trying to parody the MSM. Newspapers, TV, they are like a parody of a spoof of a comedy skit already. How you going to top that for silliness?
    Its like trying to dirty a pig’s attic. ~:D

  34. Best example I know is how the media suppressed the fact that Marc Lepine was indocrinated by an Algerian Muslim father, and that this was a key factor in his rampage that killed 14 women in Montreal.
    I wonder how many Canadians know this.
    lori
    so have I wondered
    t’is not a subject that lieberals gravitate to

  35. “”….So how does one explain this? How can a “foreign correspondent” working for a major Canadian network not know facts fundamental to one of the most heavily reported political “scandals” in recent US politics?””
    Exactly!

  36. Warwick has hit the nail right on the head. I find with most conservatives/libertarians, that if you make a good argument, a middle ground can normally be found. In my case, I have moderated my position on SSM and marijuana, to name a few. But with leftoids, look the f@#$ out. No way on earth most of those idiots are compromising on any issue. With leftards, it’s my way, or I ruin your life. No democracy with those morons, just heavy doses of social engineering.

  37. kingtontard,
    To be fair, the extreme right (pat buchanan, pat robertson, et al) are just as rigid and dogmatic. The part of your life they want to control is just different from what the leftards want to control.
    They both have totalitarian tendencies and a disrespect for reality. It’s just that there are a lot more leftards than pat buchanans and the leftards have more influence due to their positions in schools, media (both news and entertainment,) government (both politics and the public service) and universities.

  38. warwick – your post to John – perfect. And, your comments on Jose, Ted and Smoke – equally excellent. Thanks.

  39. Warwick your point about being fair is well taken; however, you seem to be slipping into a relativist mode, which you seem to acknowledge in your post. Let me put it another way, two abortion doctor shooting “Christians” (not) don’t equal AQ, Hamas, Hezzy, etc. There are degrees to everything – the moonbats of the left outnumber the moonbats of the right and have way more influence. BTW, you forgot Jerry Falwell.

  41. Jose, I will use small words. Have you ever even watched Fox? Your comments are idiotic, the standard nonsense from the “I know better than you crowd”
    You simply don’t get it. Jackass.
    “The market is speaking, and it is saying that people are sick and tired of gross bias and inaccuracy in the news they get. Witness Time Magazine and the troubles of the NYT.”
    Not to mention Fox News. Probably the worst offender bias wise. Their ratings are cratering.
    Exactly what demo are you looking at, if any?
    MSNBC, CNN and NBC are “cratering” to use your word. Get your facts correct. As for your John “Whether it’s climate change, evolution, lying about the reason to go to war, none of it matters”
    To be fair it was a conservative (Bush appointee) judge who torpedoed Intelligent Design’s prospects of being taught in schools. There are conservatives who believe in Reason, they’re just not as noisy as the other kind of conservative.
    Nor are they as loud or as omni present as the leftard left wing garbage being perpetrated by the vast majority of the MSM. Bark at the moon, all night, Moonbat. If goof’s of any stripe want to believe the earth is 6000 years old, or man walked with dinosaurs, raise your own money, and go nuts. Intelligent Design has nothing to do with Intelligence. Warwick, your comments to Jose, Mr Smoke and Ted, these goof’s, is spot on.

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