News Media Has No Integrity.

Published on July 2, 2006 By jesseledesma In Politics

This BLOG entry is on the news media publishing classified information. I see this as an issue of moral conscience.

A person in the news media has to ask him or her self will publishing this information harm the United States of America.

The reality is that publishing any classified information is going to aid the enemy. When I was in the security industry, I used to tell people “the only people that need to know what security is up to is security.”

Furthermore, I would say publishing the “phone eaves dropping story” and the “money wire transfer story” helped terrorist.

In my heart of hearts, I do not think that the reporters of those stories wrote their stories with the idea of defending democracy in America.

As every one who reads my articles knows, I am no fan of the news media. I see the news media as money driven industry that works as the PR office for the democrats.

I think they lie in order to make the republicans look bad and in order to get the headline.

In addition, I do believe that when the framers of the constitution included protection for the news media in America they had a more honest and noble industry in mind.

Unfortunately, we have entered in to a time were the average individual does not care enough to be involved and there is a group of pretentious elitist who entertain them selves by seeing how much they can spew their vial evil.

The last newsperson I had any respect for was Peter Jennings. I always wondered why many Christians had it in for him.

Well, He has left this world and I do think there will never again be people of integrity working in the American news.

Comments

ParaTed2k

on Jul 02, 2006

In my heart of hearts, I do not think that the reporters of those stories wrote their stories with the idea of defending democracy in America.

It's not a matter of whether they wrote the stories with the idea of defending democracy, they don't give a crap about democracy. They care about their by line and getting that one story that makes their career. If the rest of us were all raped and murdered tomorrow, the only tear they would shed would be if someone else got the by line.

There was nothing right or honorable about publishing that "story". They themselves admit that there was no crime being committed, so they can't even say they were whistle blowers. Printing the story to make money wouldn't bother me, it is their jobs to sell papers. However, nothing about this "story" was newsworthy. It was only showing the world how they side with terrorists. period.

I think that everyone blogger who has any way to get personal information on the people who work for the New York Times should start posting it. Names, addresses, personal phone numbers. Bank account numbers, frequent flyer details, credit card numbers. Passwords for Email accounts. Everything.

If the press thinks "we can print it if we learn it" well, turn about is fair play, isn't it.

terpfan1980

on Jul 02, 2006

Jesse - you raise some excellent points, as does ParaTed2k in his comments.

It's sad, and actually quite troubling, that the New York Times puts their hatred of the Bush administration so far and away above protecting the lives of U.S. citizens, and protecting national security. They would be at the front of the pack (probably having to push the Helen Thomas types out of the way) demanding someone's head if the U.S. was attacked again in 9/11/01 style, crying and demanding to know why the Bushies didn't protect us and didn't do whatever it takes to keep the U.S. from being attacked.

Hell, many in the Democratic Underground were at the front of the pack of the "Bush knew" whacko list, with Michael (fat-boy) Moore leading the charge and insuating that Bush worked with Bin Laden and others to pull off the whole thing. It helps no one that the Times, U.S.A. Today, CBS and ABC types (as well as the non-useful idiots like Lawrence O'Donnell and his buddy Chris Matthews and other MSNBC idiots) don't do enough to debunk that crap and make sure that U.S. citizens are getting the truth and not some rabid speculation about what really goes on.

The media is quick to try to demonstrate why we shouldn't trust our leaders, but then they go out and prove just why we shouldn't trust them at all. Witness the idiots at U.S.A. Today having to back peddle completely on their story about phone records. Witness CBS and the forged documents.

Intelligent U.S. citizens should be smart enough to take everything that the U.S. media (hell, the world media for that matter) gives us with a very large grain of salt.

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