Now where is the cowardly and dishonest New York Times? They rushed to pin the Loughner shootings on Sarah Palin, and hid behind a fusillade of excuses. I will never forget their snivelling attempt to explain their wrongdoing, entitled Time, The Enemy. As if those SOBs are the only people to work on a deadline. The problem is that there is no deadline for smearing conservatives–that’s an internal goal, not a requirement of publication.
The real problem is that they focus on interpreting, rather than reporting. Everything must go into the narrative, or it is rejected. They felt that they could not report on the Loughner shooting without somehow pinning it on conservatives, because a prominent victim was a popular Democrat.
Notice that no matter how many times the “blame Republicans–oops, we’re sorry” game is made, the innocent mistakes never seem to go against Democrats.
Hours ago, Hoffa exhorted his leftist base to “take out those sons of bitches” on the right, and now somebody has shot up an IHOP, with two National Guard members dead.
I demand the New York Times get t the bottom of this. They can even make up a connection if they wish–God knows they have a whole profession dedicated to not only getting into that sort of thing but getting out of it as well.
Jerry Ceppos, dean of the journalism school at the University of Nevada, Reno, said journalists’ impulse to quickly impose a frame on a story is “genetic.”
“Journalists developed automatic framing protocols generations ago because of the need to report quickly,” he said. “Today’s hyper-deadlines, requiring journalists to report all day long and all night long, made that genetic disposition even more dominant.”
Shameful and biased, they say these things with a straight face.
