An Unbiased Reporter

[Slimprofits]

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Self described non-partisans obsessed with proving that particular media outlets and their employees are biased against one party.

How ironical.

[Raz]

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Self described non-partisans obsessed with proving that particular media outlets and their employees are biased against one party.

How ironical.

Laugh away. I thought it was an excellent interview, but I freely admit to being a Paleoconservative of the Paul variety.

Anyone with one good eye and half a brain can see that NBC, CBS, CNN, NY Times, et al are biased to the Left.
That's obvious even on a cloudy day.

[vt]

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Laugh away. I thought it was an excellent interview, but I freely admit to being a Paleoconservative of the Paul variety.

Anyone with one good eye and half a brain can see that NBC, CBS, CNN, NY Times, et al are biased to the Left.
That's obvious even on a cloudy day.

The public also realizes how the media has failed to be objective. Attkisson has been documented as objective, but that doesn't prevent the apologists to attack her:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/149624/ma...eive-bias.aspx

[LorenS]

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Self described non-partisans obsessed with proving that particular media outlets and their employees are biased against one party.

How ironical.

The dimwits on TV can't even report the weather without bias. I like cold and snow. You'd think the world was ending every time a squall blows into town. Winter should not be a surprise every year.

[don]

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Speaking of weather bias, check out the unsuppressed glee on the weather channel when a major weather event - hurricane, blizzard, etc. - is forming. All the word choices, if the storm breaks up, are negatory.

[LorenS]

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Speaking of weather bias, check out the unsuppressed glee on the weather channel when a major weather event - hurricane, blizzard, etc. - is forming. All the word choices, if the storm breaks up, are negatory.

Calamity sells eh? They should love the recent elections then, it was a category IV disaster for Democrats.

[Raz]

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Calamity sells eh? They should love the recent elections then, it was a category IV disaster for Democrats.

No glee at CNN and NBC. This storm hit their 'second home'.

[don]

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more, albeit strident, on the 'unbiased media fantasyland' meme . . .

‘German politicians are US puppets’

Fri, Nov 7, 2014

“Now the Americans are even considering blowing up a nuclear power plant in Ukraine and then insisting that the culprits were either separatists or Russians,” claims the German journalist Udo Ulfkotte, former correspondent from Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of the largest German newspapers. He has published a book, Gekaufte Journalisten (“Purchased Journalists”), in which he describes how American and German politicians sway the German media, so that those journalists give the desired spin to world events. Ulfkotte claims that reporters are urged to bias their writing primarily to favor the American position and to oppose Russia. Udo Ulfkotte spoke to about how exactly this occurs and about the path his life is taking today after these revelations were made public.

Q: Mr. Ulfkotte, you’ve said that you were given a lot of money to write pro-American articles. How profitable is to be a pro-American journalist in Germany?

Udo Ulfkotte: I didn’t get money – I got gifts. Things like gold watches, diving equipment, and trips with accommodations in five-star hotels. I know many German journalists who at some point were able to take advantage of this to buy themselves a vacation home abroad. But much more important than the money and gifts is the fact that you’re offered support if you write pieces that are pro-American or pro-NATO. If you don’t do it, your career won’t go anywhere – you’ll find yourself assigned to sit in the office and sort through letters to the editor.

Q: According to what you’ve said, journalists are corrupted surreptitiously, by inviting them for all-expense-paid trips to the US. But do serious professionals really sell themselves for so little?

UU: When you fly to the US again and again and never have to pay for anything there, and you’re invited to interview American politicians, you’re moving closer and closer to the circles of power. And you want to remain within this circle of the elite, so you write to please them. Everyone wants to be a celebrity journalist who gets exclusive access to famous politicians. But one wrong sentence and your career as a celebrity journalist is over. Everyone knows it. And everyone’s in on it.

Q: Why have you only now decided to go public with your opinion about German journalism?

UU: I’ve had three heart attacks, I no longer have children I have to support, and day after day I kept watching the Americans on the news, once again gearing up for their next war. This time it’s in Ukraine against Russia. But it’s always the same game. Not even a complete idiot could have been oblivious to the Americans’ one-sided anti-Moscow propaganda after the crash of flight MH17. Now the Americans are even considering blowing up a nuclear power plant in Ukraine and then insisting that the culprits were either separatists or Russians. I hear it all the time. It’s unconscionable!

Q: You claim that Germany is a “banana republic.” Isn’t that an overly harsh assessment? After all, Germany does have opposition movements, including radical ones, and the media is critical of the government. For example, the recent broadcast of the TV program Die Anstalt caused quite a stir with its pointed criticism of the heavily biased German media.

UU: After that broadcast aired, with its journalists using satire (!) to express criticism of the German media – and, above all, against its purely pro-American coverage of events – complaints were filed and they were taken to court. This is perfect evidence of the fact that Germany is a banana republic: you can’t even use satire to criticize the one-sided coverage. We have only the appearance of a free press. It’s crazy.

Q: What do you think about the targeting of politicians whom the German press has lumped together in a group known as “Russian sympathizers” (Schröder, Gysi, Wagenknecht, and others), and the pro-Russian journalists?

UU: Those “Russian sympathizers” are well-educated, sincere people. I say that, although I’m not aligned with them politically. But I respect their integrity. The fact that they’re being targeted is typical of banana republics such as Germany, where any deviation from mainstream opinion is harshly suppressed.

Q: You mentioned that Germany is still concealing the fact that in March of 1988, the regime of Saddam Hussein – at the time a Western ally – committed an act of genocide in a Kurdish city near the Iranian border, using chemical weapons manufactured in Germany. Can it be true that in all these years not a single newspaper, even an opposition paper, has written about that?

UU: No, they did write about it, but it took them a year to do so! I photographed Iranians who had been poisoned by German chemical weapons under the eyes of the US, but that was not supposed to be made public. At that time, the Iraqis, Germans, and Americans were celebrating their “final” victory over the Iranians. I found it ghoulish that in Baghdad they were celebrating the fact that they had jointly gassed human beings. I suffered greatly from the gas – later I got cancer. I did everything I could to record what had happened there, hoping that it would prompt an international outcry. But no one ever published it. Instead everyone celebrated their victory. To this day I ask myself why it’s no problem for German chancellors to travel to Israel and go down on their knees and ask the Jews for forgiveness for gassing them, but then the Iranians killed by German gas are just second-class citizens? Have you ever heard of a German chancellor apologizing for that in Tehran? We can see that German politicians are nothing more than puppets of the US. They should obediently do as Washington tells them. We continue to be a US colony, a banana republic, and not a free country.

Q: You say that intelligence services provided you with information about Libya, which you published under your own name. And you claim that that was doing what you were assigned to do by the CIA and the Bundesnachrichtendienst. But if the information was interesting and true, couldn’t it be that your interests simply coincided? After all, you could have refused to publish it.

UU: Yes, yes, I could have said “no.” You know, the ADAC – the biggest German automobile club – had an employee working for its helicopter rescue service who refused to cooperate secretly with the BND. He was immediately expelled from the ADAC and then went to court, but the judges decided that a person cannot refuse to work with the BND, and it’s not a problem that one might lose one’s job for resisting. Do you get it? Do you see what I’m saying? I didn’t want to be unemployed.

Q: You’ve said that the intelligence agencies ordered your home to be raided six times. But if you were simply publishing what the intelligence agencies gave you, why did they feel they needed to search your house? Or, on the other hand, if you were still coming up with information on your own that the intelligence agencies were trying to conceal, then doesn’t it mean that you were still acting as an independent journalist, and not at all like an “unofficial CIA agent”?

UU: That’s a translation error – it wasn’t the intelligence agencies that ordered the raids, but the secret state police. What the Nazis used to call the Gestapo is now called the Department of State Security. And they came and conducted raids six times under the pretext that I was betraying state secrets. These types of scare tactics are typical of banana republics.

Q: You say that the publication of this book could create problems for you. What kind, for example?

UU: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung informed me in writing that they will file court charges against me for violating criminal, civil, and labor legislation, as well as corporate standards in journalism. That alone could destroy me. I’ve heard that many others want to put me in jail because I’ve once again exposed “state secrets.” Perhaps it would be worth it for me to fly to Moscow like Edward Snowden and ask for asylum there. Let’s wait and see how the leaders of the banana republic of Germany react, because they’ve been compromised, and everyone can read in my bestselling book how they manufacture the appearance of a free press here, and that democracy in Germany is merely an illusion.

http://orientalreview.org/2014/11/07...re-us-puppets/

[vt]

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Hey we all know that the main stream media (ABC,CBS,CNN,NBC,MSNBC, NYT) are tools on the DNC, and FOX of the GOP.

All that's posted here is just BS Russian or Chinese propaganda. This is Pravda at it's best, like Hitler's propaganda chief.

Atikkison has at least been documented to go after both sides of the political spectrum. We need real journalism, not what meets a political litmus test.

[don]

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tempest in a teapot?


20 NOVEMBER 2014

Sarah Lacy and the Darker Side of Über Corporatism

This is a stunning video, with some serious implications. I urge you to watch it. It involves abusing corporate power to smear and intimidate critics.


http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot...e-of-uber.html

[Thailandnotes]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnQS0En3u4k

[Thailandnotes]

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and then on to Rolling Stone and the meltdown at UVa

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/...ampus-20141119

[Woodsman]

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and then on to Rolling Stone and the meltdown at UVa

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/...ampus-20141119

"Thank God he said this to a real journalist!"
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot...e-of-uber.html

Michael, who Kalanick described as “one of the top deal guys in the Valley” when he joined the company, is a charismatic and well-regarded figure who came to Uber from Klout. He also sits on a board that advises the Department of Defense.

Over dinner, he outlined the notion of spending “a million dollars” to hire four top opposition researchers and four journalists. That team could, he said, help Uber fight back against the press — they’d look into “your personal lives, your families,” and give the media a taste of its own medicine.

Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt On Journalists

Advises the Department of Defense? I hope he gives better advice to the taxpayer than he does on behalf of his investors and board, exposing them to this sort of liability. The cloak and dagger stuff is sexy to these power-trippers, but they lack the get out of jail free card the pros have to really do it with style. And look at poor, pathetic Murdoch and the HP spying scandal if you're not sure what happens when this goes bad. If common sense and humanity won't trump a dollar bill once in a while, maybe these masters of the universe could apply some basic cost-benefit analysis before going all KGB on our @ss? Such a perfect synchronicity, this alignment of bro culture, rape, power-tripping, misogyny and institutional rot.

'What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an Angel! in apprehension how like a god!"

Thank God it's Friday

[vt]

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Bombshell: Email Proves that White House, DOJ Targeted Reporter Sharyl Attkisson



by
BRYAN PRESTON
Bio

November 20, 2014 - 1:49 pm

Judicial Watch reports that the Obama administration has turned over about 42,000 pages of documents related to the Fast and Furious scandal. The administration was forced to turn the documents over to Judicial Watch in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. Judicial Watch is posting them on it's web site. The administration turned them over on November 18, 2014.

One of the documents provides smoking gun proof that the Obama White House and the Eric Holder Justice Department colluded to get CBS News to block reporter Sharyl Attkisson. Attkisson was one of the few mainstream media reporters who paid any attention to the deadly gun-running scandal.

In an email dated October 4, 2011, Attorney General Holder’s top press aide, Tracy Schmaler, called Attkisson “out of control.” Schmaler told White House Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz that he intended to call CBS news anchor Bob Schieffer to get the network to stop Attkisson.
Schultz replied, “Good. Her piece was really bad for the AG.”

Schultz also told Schmaler that he was working with reporter Susan Davis, then at the National Journal, to target Rep. Darrel Issa (R-CA). Issa led the House investigation into Fast and Furious. Davis now works at USA Today. In the email chain, Schultz tells Schmaler that he would provide Davis with “leaks.”

Davis wrote a critical piece on Issa a few weeks later.

Attkisson was later subjected to hacking of her computer by people who remain unknown, but who likely belong to a government agency.She and CBS parted ways earlier in 2014, and Attkisson has since said that the network blocked her reports from airing.

[Woodsman]

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Doctor Gonzo, where are you?