I for one was shocked, shocked that Yahoo news fired David Chalian after being caught saying Republicans were happy about Hurricane Isaac, "They're not concerned at all. They are happy to have a party with black people drowning." Shocked he thought it and said it, no, not on your life. The fact Yahoo showed some integrity and actually fired the man is absolutely astonishing. Marissa Mayer is a big Obamaite.
But this has led to another term and it's a good one. David Chalian was Breitbarted!
...Breitbart died of a heart attack in March, but his crusade against media bias lives on, so that it is possible to name what happened to the former D.C. bureau chief of Yahoo News: David Chalian got Breitbarted.
A lot of other journalists here in Tampa -- where an estimated 15,000 members of the press have converged to cover the GOP convention -- share the same partisan prejudice that resulted in Chalian becoming a sudden addition to the unemployment statistic. Consider, for example, MSNBC's coverage of the Tuesday night's proceedings: Every time a black or Hispanic speaker appeared on stage, the cable-news division of the NBC network cut away from live coverage. No one watching MSNBC saw the speeches by Texas GOP Senate candidate Ted Cruz, former Alabama Democrat Artur Davis, or Utah GOP congressional candidate Mia Love. It seemed as if the network's coverage was orchestrated to protect MSNBC's Chris Matthews, who has relentlessly accused the Republican Party of racism. This is not a new accusation, nor one made exclusively by Matthews, but it was one that particularly enraged Breitbart.
Hating Breitbart examines several examples of Breitbart's battles against the Republicans-as-racists meme, including an incident in 2010 when Democrats claimed -- and major news organizations reported as fact -- that Tea Party protesters had shouted racial epithets at members of the Congressional Black Caucus, including Georgia Democratic Rep. John Lewis. After examining multiple videos of the confrontation, which occurred during a "Kill the Bill" rally against the Democrats' health-care legislation, Breitbart concluded that no such incident had happened: Democrats were lying, and the liberal media were merely repeating those lies. So he publicly offered a $10,000 reward to anyone who could provide proof of the alleged epithets. Then Breitbart upped the ante, first to $20,000 and a few days later to $100,000. In a moment captured in the new film by director Andrew Marcus, Breitbart joked to a friend that he might as well increase the reward to a trillion dollars.
No one ever collected the reward, rather conclusive proof that Breitbart was right: Democrats had manufactured a false accusation of Tea Party racism out of whole cloth, and the media had purveyed it as true, without even bothering to examine the evidence...
Wow, reporters actually challenging the politicians. What a concept.
Journalist in DC (the people you see on the Sunday shows) often lament how everyone is a journalist now, that the media used to have standards, things would be checked, etc. Well, they are right. They would check to see if it was against the Democrats and if so, it would never see the light of day. If it wasn't for the bloggers would Dan Rather still be on CBS News?
Now anyone with a camera and a computer can do what the major media refuses to do. Actually challenge the left. And they (journalist) don't like it when their people are made to look bad.
Great article. Worth the read. And somewhere up there Andrew Brietbart is smiling!
"The truth shall set you free"
ReplyDeleteEvery time I see the major news outlets (liberal press) they slant every speech in a negative way, pounch on every mis-step or fumbled word as if it alone was the speakers sole message. The next morning, CNN will only show the 'white' speakers comments, and even then make 'left handed' comments about them. The DNC will probably get 24/7 coverage,tragic how socialist leaning our news outlets have become. I don't even listen to NPR anymore, and a few years ago that's all I had on my truck radio, funny how when you really listen to what's being said you realize their all lies and bent towards their own agenda.
You got that one right man. I remember this Tweet from a frew days ago:
DeleteGreat quote from Twitter
You can judge how effective the convention is by how angry the anchors are on MSNBC. So it was a good night.
I just thank God these morons can't get away with the lying and selective publication like they used to. Walter Cronkite is turning in his grave.
Yes now even local public can capture illegal matters on cameras. It is a right of every citizen and not only for journalists.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. The major media loved their ability to control what was scene and more importantly what was not scene.
DeleteHell, see what Dan Rather tried in the 2004 campaign with Bush's National Guard service. If it wasn't for the bloggers he would have gotten away with it.
Or the Libyan consulate. For some reason the major media (Fox is the exception) has ignored the how Obama know this was a terrorist attack and then lied through his teeth on it.