The National Media Haven’t Earned Your Trust
By K. Daniel Glover | August 9, 2009
Trust is an earned commodity, and today's journalists are not earning it from their audiences. The misinformation they have been spreading about average Americans for months continues to undermine the already shaky reputation of traditional media.
When you ignore, ridicule, badger and falsely malign genuinely concerned taxpayers with labels like "mob," you can't expect them to take seriously your claims to be reporting the news -- about President Obama's healthcare plan or anything else -- with objectivity. Voters are not as stupid as too many people in national newsrooms seem to think. They see the media for what they are.
A woman who called C-SPAN to complain about the media is among them (hat tip to Ed Morrissey at Hot Air). She knows herself better than any journalist, and she doesn't see herself in the media's reporting of protests against Obama's plan. As a result, she has lost confidence in their work. She isn't alone.
"This is an organic movement," she said, "and when people stand there and lie, to me, about what I know is going on, how can I trust them when they tell me it's gonna save money when the Congressional Budget Office says it isn't, that it's gonna cover everybody when the Congressional Budget Office says it isn't, that it's gonna let me keep my health care when common sense tells you that that's not going to be the end result of this?"
It was obviously a rhetorical question. She can't trust the media. No taxpayer can when it comes to coverage of months-long protests against Obama's socialistic and costly vision for America. And no taxpayer should. The national media have proven time and again that they cannot be trusted to report any negative reaction to Obama fairly.
K. Daniel Glover is a project manager for Accuracy In Media. He has worked as an editor, writer and new media specialist in the Washington area since 1991, spending most of that time at National Journal and Congressional Quarterly.
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Well Terry, TK, and whoever else you are…. If what you say about AIM is what you truly believe, then why are you even here?
If you don’t think AIM can be trusted, then why do you waste your time reading and responding to the articles?
I have been reading AIM for quite a long time now, and I have found it to be accurate and informative.
I have also been following the responses, and know that certain ones respond just to cast doubt and disrupt the free flow of information.
Why don’t you and your ilk go back to dailykos, where you would certainly be more at home?
AIM is telling the truth about what is going on…. you are spreading lies.
“Negative attack” is a term folks throw around when they can’t accept the truth. And what wild conspiracy theories are you referring to?
Many people stayed away from the 2008 election because they felt there were no choices.
I hope they don’t do the same thing in 2010, because we need to finally clean out all the trash.
We need representation, not oddities like Nancy Pelosi, who is speaking from left field.
To Terry K.
Please show which reports are “nothing but negative attacks and wild conspiracy theories about Obama.”
Quote them, show links to them…
I would like to see which ones you consider to be negative and wild conspiracy theories as I read Aim daily and I have seen no such things, but I don’t start with a negative bias.
That fishy videos and blog with lies is going to bury Obama’s (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) site as most of what comes from the left and the Whitehouse has no facts in it, just generalities , most people want to know the facts, not just the rhetoric from the left or the Whitehouse.
If you think there is lies let’s see them, every time on every blog I ask this question I get no answer, just hatred and simple minded responses.
I quit using the MSM as a news source years ago and just ignore their slanted socialist crap. Thanks AIM for having the stomach to review their crap reporting. I can’t do it. I recommend voting every incumbent out the next election. Both Dems and Gops have been terrible. They should be ashamed of themselves and resign. Oh! I forgot, I am the only member of my organized interest group.
Terry K.:
Of course AIM is going to have to report negative things because its only goal is to correct false news reports. If the MSM or Obama gets something correct, then AIM has and will have little to say about it.
I am also interested in what “wild conspiracy theories” you think a promulgated here.
The problem with some people in this country is that they don’t see a threat of our freedom because they are naive and guillible. The don’t discern evil and therefore are blinded and can’t see where all this could possibly lead to.
Don’t underestimate evillllllllllllllllllllllll.
Evil is wild and it is conspires against goodness and truth and freedom.
TK, what Obama is proposing to the American people is not wild?,and his appeal to Americans to spy on their neighbors does not disturb you?
I hate to say it but we have a lot of arrogant dufuses in this country who useful idiots and play into the hand of real controlling evil people.
TK. HITLER WAS EVILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
You would be the same one back in the 1930’s poo pooing conservatives being fanatical and paranoid.
If it talks like a snake and slithers like a snake and bites like a snake, guess what?, it must
be a snake!
The emails you send me are to difficult to read. Eerything looks to washed out. Can’t you make the text a little darker?
I think that no matter what your opinion of AIM and MSM is, there is value in listening to what they’re saying. What’s the point of only hearing the people you agree with? The real value comes from hearing people you disagree with so that you know what people on both sides of the issues are saying. I agree with Hadley, the point of Accuracy in Media is to report inaccuracies, which is inherently a negative sort of report. But I don’t agree with the people who are saying TK shouldn’t read AIM if he disagrees with what is being said here. Like I said, I think there’s value in having discussion with both sides of an issue.
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The well known trouble maker .....Tk, Terry K., is not even allowed to be in AIM anymore. In fact, AIM sent out a message several weeks ago that if anyone should see him back posting anywhere in AIM to report this right away! I have been watching, and so I will send a report immediately; but everyone else should report him also if anyone sees him posting in any of the other AIM threads. Thanks !
Hello TK,
I see you have managed to get back on again after being kicked off the AIM Site, but did you do it legally, Mr. Krepel?
If you are using a different IP address, they will quickly find out, they always do. In the mean time I have learned more about you, such as your favorite web sites are:
MediaMatters and
ConWebWatch
I am not surprised what one can find on the Net.
You have once again lied to all of us, saying you were an Independent, but new info shows you to be a hardcore, card carrying liberal.
What did you think of Van Jones getting the axe, and ACORN being de-funded by due to a 20 year old woman posing as a prostitute, and a 25 year old film maker James O’Keefe a few months to do what the LFM could not or would not investigate, those two and their so far 5 videos of ACORN (Possibly more to come), should win a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Journalism…two normal Americans cracked ACORN, or at least that branch of the organization. FYI, you can see their videos on http://biggovernment.com Each worse than the preceding, with the last one even more dangerous.
The new MSM is Fox News, the former MSM (Mainstream Media) such as the news on ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, and most every Newspaper either in print or on the Net, they are now known as the LFM (Lunatic Fringe Media) or MFM (Main Fringe Media). The reason is, there is nothing Main Stream about them.
I see you are still stirring up trouble, as usual with your mis-truths and your complete obfuscation of the actual truth.
Terry K, a.k.a. TA, Awwww, come on ,we have missed your scathing attacks on everyone who disagrees with you and your dissociative friends in favor of dismantling of the greatest country on earth.
Does it not just irk you that Democrats have all three branches of government, and still cannot pass a Bill, even with a Super Majority?, Well many of those will not be around come 2010.
Have you noticed every time Communist Van Jones and others calling for a Boycott of Beck’s show, and Time “Ragizine” having him on the cover is an honor he cherishes, it only adds up to even more Democrats and more Republicans, plus Independents to watch his show. Cass Sunstein and other Liberal Marxists in the Obama Left are being exposed as well. Holdren could be next.
The Liberal University of Illinois (specialists in counting massive crowds) dispel the mis-truth of the Fringe Media, that there were only 60,000 to 75,000 reported at the 9-12 project along with ‘T’axed ‘E’nough ‘A’lready (TEA Parties). The count the Fringe Media is reporting only 75,000 of a crowd, failed to report on the hundreds of thousands on all streets leading to the National Mall, including parks.
U of I reported between 1.6 Million and 2 Million protesters. Also not reported were those carrying hateful signs were actually SEIU Members acting as participants to make the crowd look bad. It didn’t work, and they were exposed and kicked out…you know how that feels, huh?
Bourgeois is just another French word meaning; Capitalist, according to Marxist theory, relating to the social class that owns the means of producing wealth and is regarded as exploiting the working class.
What the Marxists have forgotten in our Country, Capitalism is what gives Americans Jobs, and exactly what the Unions and Obama are attempting to exploit. Jobless numbers are severely skewed as a standard for unemployment numbers the Government Reports, as of now they only show 9.7%, when it is actually almost double that number.
Why, you may ask…(1): is each month more people are off the roles due to not finding work. (2):Over a 100,000 or more have never applied in the first place, either continually looking on their own, or (3):living of a Spouse’s income, and cutting back. Employment Specialist take into account those mentioned above, they also look at the Temporary Work Agencies, Job Fairs, and company layoffs put the actual number over 16.9%.
Obama has asked NY Governor not to run for office again, since he has an approval rating under 30%, so what is Obama going to do about the Democratic House of Representatives ratings are at 23%, Pelosi’s rating is at 13%.
Face it, the American People have caught on to the extreme Liberal/Marxists members of the Administration and in both Houses, and they have had enough. As we spread more and more of the truth, not only about ObamaCare (Public Heath, which will not work without Tort Reform), but the attempt to persuade people that Global Warming is real, it is not. NOAA, NASA, and hundreds of Scientists, one of the longest serving members of the EPA, Halprin exposed the truth that there is NO Global Warming, after more than 35 years in the EPA, he was fired without cause, and has filed a lawsuit.
Not any of the Stimulus money went to Small Businesses, who employ 70% of all workers, and let them fail. Private Insurance premiums have grown to almost 100% since 2008, when Obama won the Democratic Nomination and told the people he would double or more of the Businesses Capital Gaines Taxes, that is when the layoffs began, and many corporations moved overseas, after he took office, there were even more layoffs and businesses were closing. This is the cause of Insurance Premiums to raise, the loss of huge markets the Private Insurance companies depended on to keep premiums low, that and causing Small Business to fail who also insured their employees.
If Crap and Tax passes the Senate (btw, Democrat Congressional Fiscally Responsible members would have never voted for the Bill if they had the time to read it, before it came to a vote), this Bill will bankrupt average Americans. It calls for the Ban on Fuel Oil which heats half the countries homes, it will ban Coal Use, and will not even consider Clean Coal production, and water usage. Even Electricity will go up to astronomical rates per kilowatt hours. Not only will all of your utilities go up by double or triple, you will also be forced to buy Carbon Credits, or your utilities will be shut off.
Two Republicans and two Moderate Democrats had to file under the FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) just to get the Cap and Trade costs to Americans should this Bill pass. What they found is mostly listed above, but even more important, is the sheer breaking of Obama’s promise not to raise taxes on the bottom of the $250,000.00 per year income, but the lower 95% will not have to pay the $700.00 per year in Taxes, but they found the number to actually be $2,754.00 per household per year, the amount of Taxes for the lower 95% will increase even more once Obama does not renew the Bush Tax Cuts.
One of the President’s main goals is to unionize all businesses, and take away the “Right to Work” States. The Unions will also run our Health Care System. As it was the reason Auto Companies were given Bail-Outs rather than Government Loans, so the Administration could take over the Auto Industry, once they were done, they gave the UAW Union control over GM and Chrysler with a 55% share of the companies.
There is so much more going on, we can only hope it does not get done before it is too late.
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AIM, meanwhile, reports nothing but negative attacks and wild conspiracy theories about Obama. Why should anyone trust AIM?