In all the publicity over the so called Jena 6 case in Jena, Louisiana, where 6 black boys laid in wait for andganged up on one white boy with an excuse of racism, the truth was not reported. Typical useless, self-serving blowhards like Jesse Jackson…

I ran across this article yesterday. It has become quite clear that the media will stop at nothing to get a story, even when that means destroying innocent peoples lives. As with the Duke Lacrosse non-atrocity, the media jump like a feral beast (as did…

I agree with you that there are still cases of white on black racism, but when the situation comes up-it is quickly dealt with by law enforcement, and the local community.
The problem is compounded when the black civil rights movement does not act consistently in applying the standards that they want everyone else to live with and that they don’t want applied to their group as a whole.

Of course there are solutions; but when people talk about them, they are immediately shouted down as being racist.
I know, I live and work in the city of Memphis and a non-black person cannot critisize a black person’s behavior without the racism being the first thing they respond with. Our newly reelected mayor throughout his campaign claimed that anyone speaking against him was a “hater” with closet racist tendencies. (Personally I thought the guy was a freak and his resume wouldn’t get him hired to manage a Ben&Jerry’s Ice Cream parlor)
This morning I was subjected to racism at the local mini-mart, and did the best thing of all-Ignore the persons tirade, and rise above it.
GSP

Busses for protest-Check
Busses to evacutate a populace-Check Leadership to make the hard decisions-MIA
Citizens looking for a protest-Check
Citizens glorfying thuggery-CHECK
Ignoring the real victim-Double CHECK

GSP

I can’t find it in my heart to believe that Journalism classes in 1983 were not liberally biased. As the majority of the journalists today are from that collegic era.

All I can say is that I was there. My alma mater was the University of Oregon, a.k.a., “The Berkeley of the Northwest.” Trust me, I could recognize flaming liberalism and folk Marxism when I saw them; if it had been as bad then as things appear to be today, I’d have switched majors if not colleges.

The Allen School of Journalism was rated as one of the top five in the country when I attended, and for good reason. The the professors were generally older, consummate professionals who actually believed in the standard of objectivity. In fact, the first time I met the Dean, Galen Rarick, was when he attended an academics’ visit while I was at ROTC Advanced Camp at Fort Lewis in 1981. Probably not a lot of J-school deans who’d show up for something like that nowadays.

And while I’ve no doubt that many if not most of the students were libs, they didn’t wear it on their sleeves in class.

I guess I was just lucky to have studied under the last of the dinosaurs. One thing’s for sure, though, I wouldn’t recommend journalism as a major these days.

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Once again thank you for spreading truth.

I say all these partisans posing as “journalists” would be well advised to do the same, if only for the sake of protecting real journalism from being corrupted even further.

Hannity has never called himself a journalist, if you had taken the time to get your facts you would know. As a matter of fact, Hannity has always called himself a ‘commentator’. And, four of the ‘examples’ you mention have always called themselves political commentators.

Anne is known as a political commentator, as is Rush. O’Reilly has never called himself a journalist nor has he called his program journalism.

So your example has holes in it; and might I suggest you consider re-thinking your argument by providing better examples.

Michele Malkin has displayed true journalistic talents and expertise. Yes, she has a conservative view, but I dare say if she had discovered new facts she would not withhold them from her readers even if it went against her conservative views. This is not true of the NYT or CNN, MSM et. al., which takes us back to the crux of the story and the comment string: The unwillingness to pull back the covers to determine what true facts are and what is false; and report it accurately is very much lacking in the MSM. I have watched the degradation of Journalism since the 60′s.

I can’t find it in my heart to believe that Journalism classes in 1983 were not liberally biased. As the majority of the journalists today are from that collegic era.

That being said, the reason the rush to Jena 6 was due to it is an election cycle and the libs must get the base fired up. How do you fire up the Black vote? Well, by fanning the flames of racism. Yes, this is reverse racism. And all forms of racism must be extinguished.

They can create their spin/narrative, and the digestion of it depends on the world view or biases of the recipient.

I’ll refer you to my earlier comment. Spinning the facts and lying about the facts are two very different things. Spinning (within reason) is perfectly reasonable. Lying is not.

…and for all you know Craig Franklin is doing the same thing you accuse other news outlets of doing.

That’s true, it is possible. And if he’s doing that it’s every bit as wrong in principle as Rather and Beauchamp.

And I’ll say explicitly now what I only implied earlier: that business about not knowing what a noose symbolizes sounds more than a little far-fetched to me.

But the main point here isn’t about Jena, it’s about a media that is so in love with it’s pre-approved storyline that it can’t be bothered to do some basic investigation. Whites can never be victims, blacks can never be vicitmizers, American society South of the Mason-Dixon is populated by men who are just itching for their chance to rape some single mother stripping her way through college.

Their laziness and myopia does a disservice to both sides of the debate, and helps keep racism from dying off completely.

Not too long ago I finished a book on the Duke Lacrosse “rape” incident called “It’s Not About The Truth” by Don Yeager.  It detailed the shameful conduct of the District Attorney Mike Nifong along with the media who were……