Unbiased media?
Moderator Gordon Peterson: “Are the mainstream media bashing the President unfairly?”
Newsweek Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas: “Well, our job is to bash the President. That’s what we do.”
- Evan Thomas , February 2, 2007.
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There’s no bias in the mainstream media.
“I don’t feel there is bias in what we do at NBC News. And I don’t think there’s bias in CBS or ABC.â€
- Andrea Mitchell , January 5, 2007.
News reporters are leftists.
“News reporters are certainly liberal and left of center.”
- Walter Cronkite
We’ll pursue a CBS agenda in the reporting of news.
“We are going to impose our agenda on the coverage [of the news] by dealing with issues and subjects that we> choose to deal with.”
- Richard M. Cohan
The media print lies.
“There is no such thing, at this date of the world’s history in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth; lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks; they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.”
- John Swinton , 1953.
I couldn’t live if Cheney ran for president.
“The day I say Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I’ll kill myself.”
- Helen Thomas
Bush is the worst president.
“[George Bush is] the worst president in all of American History.”
- Helen Thomas
We won’t give people what they want.
“Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.”
- Richard Salant
We empowered abortion with lies.
“We persuaded the media that the cause of permissive abortion was a liberal, enlightened, sophisticated one. Knowing that if a true poll were taken, we would be soundly defeated, we simply fabricated the results of fictional polls. We announced to the media that we had taken polls and that 60 percent of Americans were in favor of permissive abortion. This is the tactic of the self-fulfilling lie. Few people care to be in the minority. We aroused enough sympathy to sell our program of permissive abortion by fabricating the number of illegal abortions done annually in the U.S. The actual figure was approaching 100,000, but the figure we gave to the media repeatedly was 1 million.
“Repeating the big lie often enough convinces the public. The number of women dying from illegal abortions was around 200-250 annually. The figure we constantly fed to the media was 10,000. These false figures rook root in the consciousness of Americans, convincing many that we needed to crack the abortion law.
“Another myth we fed to the public through the media was that legalizing abortion would only mean that the abortions taking place i1legally would then be done legally. In fact, of course, abortion is now being used as a primary method of birth control in the U.S. and the annual number of abortions has increased by 1,500 percent since legalization.”
- Bernard Nathanson