The media, like MSNBC, say a the legal team entry into Tweety Attorney Cohen's home characterized as "stormed" into Cohen's apartment, "busted down his door" and other crap! Cohen said the legal team was polite, knocked on the door, and were very careful not to upset the family!
Why does the media have to dramatize everything at the expense of the story!
This is insane bias for the purpose of making a few bucks to attract an audience and please their advertisers!
Try too hard to attract viewers leads to poor news coverage dripping with bias. Bias does NO SERVICE to viewers. But I understand the need to attract viewers. If Congress and the FCC worked together perhaps we could get closer to BBC-like news coverage with less biased reports.
Truth? Facts? How can we use the media to obtain information we can use effectively?
You can see a form of bias instantly in every (or almost every) newscast as the first words of every story are "worst," dangerous,' or some other strong, catchy adjective that does not need to be used to tell the story. Maybe it is necessary, but less is more in my opinion. "If it bleeds, it leads."
If a sink hole opens up in Florida and swallows a home, rather than "giant' hole opens up and "swallows" a house, the reporter can say a sink hole opened up under a home and three people fell in. Start with that, not the adjectives. I guess the producer will never do that.
Oh well.
Another example of news taking us the wrong way to useful info is the happy, morning laughter and banter as the "news" is provided. No one wakes up that happy! Grin and laugh is the key to all morning news producers success I suppose.
"How the Mainstream Media Operate"
By Dennis Prager August 24, 2017
"Their rush to politicize a classical-music concert is a classic example of journalistic manipulation.“
The leading media [are characterized by] indefensibly corrupt manipulations of language repeated incessantly.”
— Patrick Lawrence in The Nation, August 9, 2017, on the media’s reporting of the alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia
I agree! " . . . corrupt manipulations of language repeated incessantly.” They are after entertainment, not news!
"To understand America’s crises today, one must first understand what has happened to two institutions: the university and the news media. They regard their missions as not educating and informing but indoctrinating."
It's a stupid shame! But, uh, oh! Maybe this article is biased unot itself!
"When it comes to straight news stories — an earthquake in Central America, say — the news media often do their job responsibly. But when a story has a left-wing interest, they abandon straight news reporting and take on the role of advocates."
What is a left-wing interest? OK, it looks like a media source wrote about this author in a way that was unfair.
". . . the board of directors of the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra and its conductor, Guido Lamell, invited me to guest-conduct a Haydn symphony at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. I have conducted regional orchestras in Southern California over the last 20 years.
Sometime thereafter, four members of the orchestra published a letter asking their fellow musicians not to perform, claiming that “Dennis Prager is a right-wing radio host who promotes horribly bigoted positions.” They were joined by, among others, former Santa Monica mayor, now councilman, Kevin McKeown, who announced, “I personally will most certainly not be attending a concert featuring a bigoted hate monger.”
Then the New York Times decided to run a piece on the controversy. The first question is, Why? Why would the New York Times cover a controversy begun by a few members of a community orchestra in California?"
OK, it seems unfair . . .
"Not only was the Left trying to prevent conservatives from speaking, it was now trying to prevent a conservative from not speaking, from just making music. Therefore, it was necessary to show that the Left in Santa Monica had legitimate reasons to try to prevent me from conducting. And the only way to do that was to reaffirm that I am a hater and a bigot."
Free speech should be every American's right. Of course! Some hate speech has to be NOT allowed, however just as crying fire in a movie theater.
". . . we come to NPR. On August 13 it published a piece titled “Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra Confronts Controversy over Right-Wing Guest Conductor.” Putting the title aside — it communicates, again, a negative story when a positive take would have been just as valid — I will note that the piece was considerably more balanced than those of the Los Angeles Times or the New York Times. But it had the usual media defect: It gave away its political bent.
Here is the second paragraph: “Dennis Prager’s day job, however, has members of the orchestra up in arms — and laying down their instruments. He is a conservative talk-show host who often targets multiculturalism, Muslims and LGBTQ people.” The author gives an example in each case.
For multiculturalism, she cites a column I wrote that was titled “1,400 Girls Raped by Multiculturalism.” In it I described the kidnapping and sexual enslavement of over 1,400 English girls by young Muslim men over the course of more than a decade while the police and the media conspired never to divulge that the rapists were Muslim. The reason, as British authorities later admitted, was their commitment to multiculturalism. But for a writer at NPR, even one who did not go out of her way to portray me as a mean-spirited bigot, the mere fact that I wrote a column against multiculturalism explains why “members of the orchestra [were] up in arms. [I think I see the point both ways, one where highlighting the religion of the kidnappers added nothing to the story, and a possible useful fact to add might be that the kidnappers were Muslim. Is it too "PC" to leave out the fact the kidnappers were Muslim? How "truthful" is this fact? MOST IMPORTANT, is how USEFUL if this fact? What does adding Muslim to the mix do to help the story?]
As for “targeting” Muslims, she cited a column titled “Yes, Muslims Should Be Asked to Condemn Islamic Terror.” Asking Muslims to condemn Islamic terror is, in NPR’s moral universe, equivalent to “targeting” Muslims. [Really? You want to say THAT? NPR does not consider askng Muslims to criticize extremists, NPR is asking you to include everyone in the act of criticizing terrorists, including Muslims, but not singling out Muslims who cannot control extremists any better than YOU control EVANGELICAL extremists or White Nationalist or the KKK or Neo-Nazis.] When the Left demands that our white president condemn white-supremacist violence, are they targeting whites?
And the example the NPR writer supplies for my “targeting” LGBTQ people is my 2014 critique of judges who, I argued, overreached their authority when they overturned popular votes to keep marriage defined as the union of a man and a woman. The whole article was a critique of judges, not “LGBTQ people.” But on the left, merely disagreeing with judges about an LGBTQ issue is to “target” LGBTQ people.
In summary, all mainstream-media coverage of this one story was tainted, biased, often false, and predicated solely on left-wing presumptions. Magnify what they did to me a thousand-fold and you begin to understand media behavior over the last two generations, and especially so today, when hysteria and advocacy have completely replaced news reporting. And they pay little or no price among those who still believe them."
Dennis, I think you have your own set of bias to deal with.
Dennis Prager — Dennis Prager’s latest book, The Ten Commandments: Still the Best Moral Code, was published by Regnery. He is a nationally syndicated radio show host and creator of PragerUniversity.com. @dennisprager
