\u201cI can understand the objection of people who did have an issue about it,\u201d Couric said. (The \u201cit\u201d here is the deliberate falsifying of the truth). \u201cHaving said that, I think we have to focus on the big issue of gun violence. It was my hope that, when I approached this topic, that this would be a conversation-starter.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Here is the “conversation” about guns – the entire conversation: \u00a0 as law enforcement targets gun criminals, gun crime is dropping, even as the number of guns in the hands of the law-abiding skyrockets. \u00a0The only exception is in inner cities, where it’s not the law-abiding citizens doing the shooting. \u00a0Discuss.<\/p>\n
There. \u00a0There’s your conversation.<\/p>\n
But I have a better conversation. \u00a0Let’s talk about when the media became the PR wing of the America left. And that’s fine, to a point \u2013 most of us have come to except that, to one point or another, at least considering it part of America’s intellectual background noise.<\/p>\n
And that’s fine, to a point \u2013 most of us have come to accept that, to one degree\u00a0or another; it’s\u00a0part of America’s intellectual background noise.<\/p>\n
So let’s “converse” about this:<\/p>\n
When Bernie Maddoff \u00a0sells phony\u00a0investments, and bilks people of their life’s savings, it’s a huge scandal – justifiably so – and righteous outrage ensues. \u00a0The entire faith in the investment industry – a vitally important one – took a hit.<\/p>\n
When Enron falsifies\u00a0its records, people like you, the media, jump up-and-down and hoot and holler \u2013 and very justifiably so. The lying utterly guts the credibility that was the foundation of that industry. \u00a0So far so good?<\/p>\n
When Wall Street misleads the public, and itself, about what it’s actually investing in, causing a collapse of the entire housing market, that’s a breach of “trust” (or market discipline) that caused huge problems. \u00a0Ja?<\/p>\n
When the police cover up wrongdoing to protect one of their own from the consequences of their wrongdoing, it’s a big story – one that cuts to the foundation of our trust in government, especially law enforcement. \u00a0Right?<\/p>\n
So how is what Katie Couric did any different?<\/p>\n
And more importantly, how is the entire news media’s failure (along with their cheerleaders<\/a>) to rise up and condemn Couric’s perfidy as the blot on whatever trust for the media might still exist any different?<\/p>\nOther than saying you really don’t care anymore?<\/p>\n
That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
To: \u00a0Katie Couric and the entire American news media From: \u00a0Mitch Berg, peasant Re: \u00a0Starting a Conversation Ms Couric et al, As we discussed last week, you got busted doing something that, in my day (and yours) would have gotten any young reporter unceremoniously fired; you edited a story specifically to invert the history, record […]<\/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":[249],"class_list":["post-59137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-narrative-for-sale","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59137","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=59137"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59142,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59137\/revisions\/59142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}