{"id":58984,"date":"2016-06-01T11:30:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T16:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58984"},"modified":"2016-05-31T11:11:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T16:11:36","slug":"to-the-entire-american-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58984","title":{"rendered":"To: The Entire American Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

To: \u00a0The Media
\nFrom: \u00a0Mitch Berg, Peasant
\nRe: \u00a0Journalistic “Standards”<\/p>\n

Dear Media<\/p>\n

Katie Couric lied to the viewing public by maliciously editing her piece on “Gun Violence” to show a group of human rights activists as speechless when asked a fairly elementary question about gun control (when, in fact, they had several minutes of on-point, articulate response).<\/p>\n

Kevin Williamson – a long-time newspaperman (who presumably knows the secret handshake you journalists have that determines whether you’ll take their criticism seriously or not) notes that<\/a>…:<\/p>\n

This kind of thing is the stock-in-trade of faux journalists such as Jon Stewart and crude propagandists such as Michael Moore, but Katie Couric is, in theory, something else: an actual journalist. There are things we permit among comedians that we do not permit among journalists: I doubt very much that every anecdote Richard Pryor ever shared actually happened.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I believe I’ve heard a journo or two whimpering about “Censorship”. \u00a0(“On The Media”, NPR’s media criticism program<\/del> Media \u00dcber Alles-fest, hasn’t yet<\/a>, but I’m sure they will – if they deign to address the story at all)<\/p>\n

The usual idiots are rallying to Couric\u2019s defense for the usual reason, which has absolutely nothing to do with principle and everything to do with a deep disinclination to allow anything to happen that might be considered a victory for conservative critics of the mainstream media. This is not a First Amendment question: No one is arguing that this film should be censored, the way films critical of Hillary Rodham Clinton were subject to government censorship before Citizens United; rather, this is a straightforward question about journalistic standards and Yahoo\u2019s adherence to or wanton abandonment of them. Journalists are not supposed to tell lies to their audiences.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fearless prediction: \u00a0“Serious” journalists will throw their hands up in the air, declare “it’s the new media, what are you gonna do?” and let it aaaaaaaall slide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To: \u00a0The Media From: \u00a0Mitch Berg, Peasant Re: \u00a0Journalistic “Standards” Dear Media Katie Couric lied to the viewing public by maliciously editing her piece on “Gun Violence” to show a group of human rights activists as speechless when asked a fairly elementary question about gun control (when, in fact, they had several minutes of on-point, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,263],"tags":[358,289],"class_list":["post-58984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-narrative-for-sale","tag-kevin","tag-kevin-williamson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58985,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58984\/revisions\/58985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}