Looking for real Journalism....(Koppel/Stewart)

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Found on Hardblogger on www.msnbc.com: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5445086/

Best and worst (David Shuster)

I had planned to write a blog today about Bill O'Reilly. I have some very strong feelings about the embarassing hypocrisy of Fox News and O'Reilly. But last night, as I was thinking about the "partisan worst" in broadcast news, I flipped on a program that has always represented journalism at its best— ABC's Nightline. There was Ted Koppel's team, along the most remote stretch of the Bay Hap River in South Vietnam... seeking out witnesses to a firefight from 35 years ago... a fight that has been called into question in our presidential election by a group called "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth."

I'll leave it to ABC's web site for the details on what Nightline found about John Kerry's war record. But I was moved by something Ted Koppel said in his closing thoughts... and I want to repeat them here: "We didn't know what we were going to find when our crew went into Vietnam. You have the right to expect that we would have reported it either way. And we would. Because, not reporting something you know can be just as much of a political statement as reporting it... once we've checked things as thoroughly as we can, we're in the business of reporting what we learn, not concealing it."

"Reporting what we learn, not concealing it." For me, that declaration is the best way to end this week and think about the next two. Because despite the shallow approach in some quarters of the TV news business, there are still organizations that work tirelessly and with complete integrity to dig deep. That integrity, fairness, and dedication to letting the chips fall where they may, is what we strive for here at NBC... and it's something we honor in our colleagues across town.

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1. Its the Principle, Some people have it, some say they do but lack it

Bush is one of those that Lack Principle, compassion, and integrity.

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2. I am not moved ...

Ted has said and done some good stuff, but I am not going to be swayed by a contrived and pathetic attempt by media to sugar-coat its own utter failure to serve the people. They have now exposed themselves and we saw them naked. It is just that simple.

As the masters of the media,(via ownership rights) they are now going to try to poise themselves, spin out a mea culpa or two, and then have a pretend war of integrity with each other as they design the next, quick-fix to cover up the travesty of total manipulation. All while we watch the commercials and pay for diversion that cloaks deception? For all the studies on mind control they may use, this culture is clearly ready to jam that noise and blow the lid off of their entrenched Ministry of Truth.

Not gonna' fly with me! No sir! Not gonna' do it. Wouldn't be prudent at this juncture. The jig is up and no Technicolor band-aid is going to elicit my forgiveness. They earned my skepticism with their well-paid efforts, and they are going to have to live with it.

They are experts at a corporate agitprop and so I am now supposed to buy into another form of it? This reversal of fortune is not going to have the recovery they expect. My sin, my sin, my most grevious sin? Bullshit with freedom fries on it!

I'll have one order of Media Revolution, with a side of Democratization, please. Super size it!

Their leader/Poster Child gave us our new anthem: “Fool me once, shame on me! Fool me twice ... won't get fooled again!” It is so simple a total idiot can say it and understand it. There is no point in trying to recover and long LIVE Noam Chomsky. His day in the Sun may be coming to a Great Awakening near you!

Presstitutes, Reportwhores, Correspindits, and Big Brother fetishists be warned. The Revolution will be Webcast. The people are as mad as hell and you can't convince them to take it anymore.