The News Media in America – The new advocates of Tribal Warfare – Destroyers of Truth – Disciples of Dissent – Imposter of Integrity – Abuser of Constitutional Protection!

Once upon a time the news media members of the Fourth Estate, those who claimed to be the defenders of freedom and watchdogs for the public, were signatory to the Code of Ethics for the Society of Professional Journalists.  That Code of Ethics identifies the various standards for the industry which they summarize as follows.

Journalists should:

Take responsibility for the accuracy of their work. Verify information before
releasing it. Use original sources whenever possible.

Remember that neither speed nor format excuses inaccuracy.

Provide context. Take special care not to misrepresent or oversimplify in
promoting, previewing or summarizing a story.

Gather, update and correct information throughout the life of a news story.

Be cautious when making promises, but keep the promises they make.

Identify sources clearly. The public is entitled to as much information as possible
to judge the reliability and motivations of sources.

Consider sources’ motives before promising anonymity. Reserve anonymity for
sources who may face danger, retribution or other harm, and have information
that cannot be obtained elsewhere. Explain why anonymity was granted.

Diligently seek subjects of news coverage to allow them to respond to criticism
or allegations of wrongdoing.

Avoid undercover or other surreptitious methods of gathering information
unless traditional, open methods will not yield information vital to the public.

Be vigilant and courageous about holding those with power accountable.
Give voice to the voiceless.

Support the open and civil exchange of views, even views they find repugnant.

Recognize a special obligation to serve as watchdogs over public affairs and
government. Seek to ensure that the public’s business is conducted in the
open, and that public records are open to all.

Provide access to source material when it is relevant and appropriate.

Boldly tell the story of the diversity and magnitude of the human experience.
Seek sources whose voices we seldom hear.

Avoid stereotyping. Journalists should examine the ways their values and
experiences may shape their reporting.

Label advocacy and commentary.

Never deliberately distort facts or context, including visual information.

Clearly label illustrations and re-enactments.

Never plagiarize. Always attribute.

The Society of Professional Journalists, formerly known as Sigma Delta Chi, is the oldest organization representing journalists in the United States. It was established on April 17, 1909 at DePauw University, and its charter was designed by William Meharry Glenn.

For over one hundred years this society has worked to adopt and maintain a Code of Ethics to guide all journalists in their work and to make certain every effort is made to assure fair and balanced news coverage.

Today, sadly, as is obvious when reviewing the standards inherent in the Society Code, a vast number of principles of good journalism are being violated by the news media.  It seems the day of objectivity, fair and balanced coverage, even measures to assure truth in reporting, have been cast aside by our news organizations.

From the corporate boardrooms of the news media to the college classrooms teaching our next generation of journalists there is a wholesale disregard for our Constitutional protection of the news media.  You see, no Constitutional guarantee comes without reciprocal action to accept responsibility for adhering to the standards being protected.

In truth, our Bill of Rights is really a Bill of Rights and Responsibilities in which the federal government provides protection and those protected must assume responsibility to adhere to standards and principles consistent with our way of life.  That responsibility to maintain standards has been tossed on the trash heap of forgotten promises to the people.

News reporting used to be a meticulous search for truth but today it is no more than a stampede for ratings and readers using a profit driven bias and a desire to exploit the public while serving the stockholders.  They are hypocrites through and through.

Once upon a time our news anchors represented the best in American values.  But all that died when the Walter Cronkite’s of the world passed the baton to the New World Order of journalists.

Bias is the new standard and truth is no longer a priority in reporting.  The media and the profit mongers controlling them decided ratings were dependent upon controversy, generating hatred, undermining truth and exploiting a combined campaign by multiple news sources.  The members of the far left (extreme liberals) were united against a very few defenders of the president, Fox News most notably.  Both sides were guilty of many questionable news practices to hype their cause.

One thing they really underestimated was that the public would immediately see through the falsehoods bombarding the general public through the news media.  It is the public who are the true watchdogs of the public interest for they are the only defenders of the public interest.  They also long ago recognized the impending collapse of institutions like the news media, federal government, political parties and others who have outlived their usefulness.

People no longer trust the media because the media has abandoned the search for truth.  There can be no more telling sign than the cancellation of newspaper and magazine subscriptions, the epic collapse in television ratings, and the cord cutting of the public from the broadcast and cable television networks.

Back in that time, Walter Cronkite consistently drew 27-29 million viewers every night and on occasion soared to over 50 million for special events.  He was the most trusted man in America.  Today there are far more media outlets and there were 205 million people in the US back then compared to 330 million today.  Yet, if you total the audience for all the news media today, broadcast and cable, it falls short of Walter alone.

In the not too distant past news directors decided what to report.  Today, algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) decide what to publish and how to maximize the bias.  The news media of today works to create the news, not just report it.  It wants to convince people what to think, not to present both sides of issues and let the people make up their own minds.

The news media and social media owners became collaborators and made a calculated decision to tell people what to think, subtly of course, in the dominant issue of the day, President Donald Trump, the consummate outsider.

Why?  Because he threatened those news reporters who used government insiders to routinely get leaked confidential, proprietary and even classified information, the lifeblood of an unscrupulous media.

The Trump threat must end so they first tried to stop Trump from getting elected which failed miserably.  Then they tried to force him to resign from the presidency through scandalous events from Trump’s past which also failed miserably.  Finally, they united to get him impeached which has failed thus far.

By using a variety of highly questionable news services and mysterious anonymous sources to generate news stories, thus creating an avalanche of spurious and incendiary rumors, half-truths and fake news to stop him from getting re-elected, such was their hatred and fear of the renegade president.

That was only the beginning.  Once credible news outlets like the New York Times, Washington Post, NBC and ABC along with most cable affiliates and channels such as CNN, MSNBC, CBSN and network streaming services were part of the movement to impeach or disenfranchise the duly elected president of the people.

For those of you not familiar with the news business, there are many ways to slant coverage in a negative light like misleading headlines leading into the story or using dated or provocative videos with bad people such as Trump with Epstein though the video is over 20 years old.

They consistently load all panels of experts with Obama/Clinton lovers and Trump haters, Republicans who are outcasts from their own party, or officials fired from the Trump era.  Often times CNN and MSNBC seem more like the PR arm of the Democratic National Committee than news outlets and it seems as if a requirement to get on the air is to have worked for Obama, be fired by Trump, or pledge allegiance to the destruction of Trump.

Of course, the public knows better as noted from the collapse in ratings and readers so in the end, should Trump survive and get re-elected, the Swamp may yet get drained.  This should be a lesson to all aspiring journalists, if you want to report the news you must have solid principles and take responsibility for your actions in serving the public trust.  Seek the truth.  

Where do I find the Truth?

Fact check

The Fact checkers

To find the

Truth!!!

Profiting from Lies by the News Media and former Obama Administration officials through book sales constitutes perjury in the court of public opinion and criminal conduct against the Constitution!

Many liberal members of the news media and former Obama administration officials who were charter members of the Stop-Trump movement and whose names are now associated with the Justice Department criminal probe of misconduct by public officials have made millions of dollars writing “expose” books about the Trump administration.

Any book published is a public record so any lies offered by the malicious authors or their media bosses should be used as evidence of perjury against such unscrupulous writers involved in the leaking of classified and protected government records.

As the DOJ criminal investigation accelerates and more and more reporters and Obama officials are caught in the spiderweb of corruption their own words published in books should lay the groundwork for perjury charges and they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for such a grievous violation of public law and trust.

Conspiracies seem to run deep into the lifeblood of the political establishment and the co-collaborators in the news media helping to inflame the anti-Trump news media since Trump became president.

Such efforts to undo the will of the people in electing Trump must be met with aggressive prosecution to insure such a violation of public trust never happens again.

  

Stay tuned for results from the Department of Justice criminal investigation of politics, politicians and press!

The Dawning of a New America – Shining the Light on the underbelly of Corruption on the Political Establishment in our Nation’s Capital. Freedom of the Press is no cover for Criminal Conspiracy!

If the news media colluded with “Obama administration” officials on criminal activity, have they waived their right to Constitutional Protection under the First Amendment?

Can reporters, anchors and executives of CNN, MSNBC, NBC, The New York Times and Washington Post among others be co-collaborators in criminal crimes against the US Constitution?

Should they be indicted and prosecuted for criminal conduct?

Stay tuned for results from the Department of Justice criminal investigation of politics, politicians and press!

News from the Swamp - National News Media Sinks to new lows over phony Recession Claims and Trump Alabama Weather Tweet – and then there is the on again off again twisted, distorted and highly confused state of the Democratic Party managing their own Dump Trump rebellion!

Try as they might to hide the fact, the national news media has demonstrated their hatred of the US president by spending far more energy trying to harpoon the president than tell the truth about both the Hurricane debacle and the media falsely reporting the US is in, or entering a recession.

Recession

Sometimes it seems as if the media is attempting to create a disaster against the president in hopes it will destroy him in the polls and upcoming election.  The efforts to light a fire to generate a recession is perhaps the strongest indication yet the media could care less about the harm such reckless reporting can do to the people of America and the nation.

CNN, MSNBC, NBC, Yahoo News and CBSN have violated every concept of journalism integrity in their obsession with destroying Trump including blindly trying to create a groundswell of fear in the economic and financial universe that a recession was being kept hidden from the public that could bring down the president.

Several weeks of economic uncertainty followed, fueled by ominous claims from reporters, anchors and anti-Trump “unbiased” guests on these news programs to reinforce the downward spiraling economy.  In the end no one bought the dastardly and false claims of our media.

It never seemed to occur to the media that it was their false claims and radical bias that was fueling recession talks and had nothing to do with economic principles nor reality.  Why should a news media receive constitutional protection when the news media is working to undermine the economy and presidency and threaten the livelihood and hard-earned savings and pensions of the public?

An economic downturn would be devastating not only to business and consumer confidence, but it would undermine the value of homes, property, small businesses and even retirement savings for all Americans, Democrat, Republican and Independent alike.

Union pension plans would be destabilized, interest rates would increase, inflation would skyrocket and homes would be lost for the sole purpose of helping the news media destroy the presidency.

The radical elements of the news media are attached at the umbilical cord to the Democratic party so one can only assume neither cares much about the constituents they serve, even those elected to serve all Americans, let alone their own party base.  It is hard to distinguish at times whether the media is the puppet master of the Democratic party establishment or vice versa.

Regardless, it is a very unholy alliance with no regard to the damage they can do to their own base.  The people’s reaction to the fearmongers is to push the stock markets to record highs by today.  Yet the same media keep trying to instill fear about a recession.

Weathergate

As for the Alabama Tweet on September 1, a Sunday morning, by the President, in which he said Alabama was in the path of Hurricane Dorian, what are the facts?  From August 24 – August 30 the National Hurricane Center issued alerts showing that Dorian could hit Alabama, contrary to what the media seemed to claim.  The charts are shown in this story.

On August 31, a Saturday, the NHC showed for the first time that the path was shifting and Alabama might not be included although hurricane tracking is always difficult to project, especially this one.  The NHC still showed the hurricane affecting Alabama in a separate chart that day released with the spaghetti model.

The next morning, Sunday, Trump issued his statement urging people to heed the warnings and mentioning Alabama could still be in the path.  Well it certainly seemed possible based on the August 31 NHC release but September 1 the NHC dropped any reference to Alabama being involved.

Note just the day before Trump's Tweet the National Hurricane Center still said there was " higher than usual" uncertainty about the path.  Six days later the news media lead story on the channels still mentioned how Trump fabricated the Alabama exposure to the hurricane.

Even the Washington Post, no friend of Trump, warned their fellow media members they were contributing to making the news media look like the villains in their death struggle with Trump.  As of today, September 13, stories are still being carried about the weather forecasting.

And then there is Impeachment

Finally, there is the effort by the Democratic members of the House to impeach President Trump or not impeach Trump.  Since it has been the main purpose for the Democrats since Trump’s election it is not going away.

Yesterday, September 12, the House Judiciary Committee took firm action on impeachment, according to Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY).  Oddly, even the partner in pushing the impeachment, the same news media that seems to be running the Democratic National Committee, were left confused.

This latest flip flop by the Democrats has confused rank-and-file members and caused mixed messages between Democrats on the Judiciary panel and in the House leadership, according to Newsweek.

Normally politicians pay attention to polls.  The Democrats are no longer normal, I guess.  The most recent polls on impeachment paint a far different picture.  SSRS conducted a poll for CNN from March through May which showed impeachment favorability increasing slightly from 36 to 41 percent.

The Mueller report was released in March. The former special counsel himself testified before Congress in July, but a Politico/Morning Consult poll showed little change, with 37 percent support for an impeachment inquiry. A Monmouth University poll last month found that 59 percent of people opposed having him impeached.

Polls also show 55% of Democrats oppose Impeachment.  With nearly 60% of the public opposed to impeachment, what is wrong with the House Democrats?

Here is the most current Gallup tracking poll on Congress.

Do you approve or disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job?

2019 Aug 1-14          Approve 17%            Disapprove 79%

What about the news media credibility?

According to The Hill, in 2018 seventy-two percent of Americans believe "traditional major news sources report news they know to be fake, false, or purposely misleading," according to a poll from Axios and SurveyMonkey.

The poll of nearly 4,000 adults shows that 92 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents "say that traditional news outlets knowingly report false or misleading stories at least sometimes," a finding in line with other recent polls conducted by Pew Research and Gallup.

It found the sentiment extends to those who identify as independents and Democrats, with 79 percent of independents also saying traditional outlets knowingly report false or misleading stories at least sometimes. Democrats agree by a slight majority of 53 percent.

Presidential debate September 12

As for the latest indicator of public interest in the politics in America, here are the preliminary Nielsen overnight ratings for the September 12 Democrat Presidential debate.

Total Viewers (in millions): ABC: 11.22 million, CBS: 3.86, Fox: 2.03, NBC: 1.66, CW: 0.63.

Okay, about 17 million people tuned in.

 

According to the US census Bureau the current population of the United States of America is 329,275,423 as of Wednesday, July 31, 2019.  People 18 and over (eligible voters), are 77.6% of the population.

Thus, in this first-time debate for all leading Democratic candidates for president shown on multiple networks, about 5% of the eligible voters took time to watch.  Which also means about 95% of the eligible voters did not watch.

By the way, record highs in the stock markets are happening today.  More indications the Democrats and their news media outlets are way too far out on the limb of self-delusion.