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Do you remember Daniel Bloom? He was a journalist before someone cut his head off; they filmed it; you can watch it. James Foley was also a journalist; his head was cut off in Syria. What about Bill BIggart? He was born in Germany but became an American citizen; he was a photographer that died in Lower Manhattan on a clear and beautiful Tuesday morning. These were enemies of the people.
Narciso Gonzalez wrote for The State in South Carolina, and he was killed by the Lt. Governor of that state. Ruben Salazar wrote for the Los Angeles Times, and he was killed by the police of that city. The Lt. Governor was acquitted; the cops were never charged. The journalists were a threat to the American way of life, you see, and not their murderers.
Nellie Bly went undercover to expose the horror and filth of American insane asylums; Upton Sinclair got a job in the Chicago stockyards; Woodward and Bernstein hung around in parking garages. Enemies.
Ernie Pyle was accidentally blown up by our own Army, but Joseph Morton was executed by the Nazis. William Moore did not make it to the 37th Parallel. Phillipa Schuyler's helicopter fell out of the sky near Da Nang. Michael Kelly was riding in a convoy outside Baghdad that came under fire. Marie Colvin stood too close to a coffee can packed with explosives and nails during the Siege of Homs.
These are some of the people that the president called America's enemies.
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“We have met the enemy and he
“We have met the enemy and he is us.” - Pogo (Walt Kelly)
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journalists put themselves in
journalists put themselves in harms way all the time and have since the beginning of the printing press. they get killed, kidnapped and attacked.
i will say there is a grain of truth to what he says regarding cnn, etc. Giant corporate media has been negligent, derelict and watered down to the point of uselessness. nice to see them bite back finally.
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Turts is right. Two things
Turts is right. Two things happened and they changed news. The first was the 24 hour cable news channel. The second was that the network news started to fall under the umbrella of entertainment, rather than news. It therefore had to produce positive income. In the past it had been a value added service that was expected to lose money, but not anymore.
Put those two things together and what you're left with is shit. You have Fox stroking the Right and CNN stroking the Left. It's of them vie to make the news rather than break it.
It's a small world with real news and real info at our finger-tips. Meanwhile, the broadcast and cable news just sits around talking and arguing about nothing. It's not like they nothing to report. They choose not to.
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And Daniel Pearl..
And Daniel Pearl..
http://time.com/4675860/donald-trump-fake-news-attacks/
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Bret Stephens delivered the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture this week at the University of California, Los Angeles. Read the full text of his remarks below:
I’m profoundly honored to have this opportunity to celebrate the legacy of Danny Pearl, my colleague at The Wall Street Journal.
My topic this evening is intellectual integrity in the age of Donald Trump. I suspect this is a theme that would have resonated with Danny.
When you work at The Wall Street Journal, the coins of the realm are truth and trust — the latter flowing exclusively from the former. When you read a story in the Journal, you do so with the assurance that immense reportorial and editorial effort has been expended to ensure that what you read is factual.
Not probably factual. Not partially factual. Not alternativelyfactual. I mean fundamentally, comprehensively and exclusively factual. And therefore trustworthy.
This is how we operate. This is how Danny operated. This is how he died, losing his life in an effort to nail down a story.
In the 15 years since Danny’s death, the list of murdered journalists has grown long.
Paul Klebnikov and Anna Politkovskaya in Russia.
Zahra Kazemi and Sattar Behesti in Iran.
Jim Foley and Steve Sotloff in Syria.
Five journalists in Turkey. Twenty-six in Mexico. More than 100 in Iraq.
When we honor Danny, we honor them, too.
We do more than that.
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We honor the central idea of journalism — the conviction, as my old boss Peter Kann once said, “that facts are facts; that they are ascertainable through honest, open-minded and diligent reporting; that truth is attainable by laying fact upon fact, much like the construction of a cathedral; and that truth is not merely in the eye of the beholder.”
And we honor the responsibility to separate truth from falsehood, which is never more important than when powerful people insist that falsehoods are truths, or that there is no such thing as truth to begin with.
So that’s the business we’re in: the business of journalism. Or, as the 45th president of the United States likes to call us, the “disgusting and corrupt media.”
Some of you may have noticed that we’re living through a period in which the executive branch of government is engaged in a systematic effort to create a climate of opinion against the news business.
The President routinely describes reporting he dislikes as FAKE NEWS. The Administration calls the press “the opposition party,” ridicules news organizations it doesn’t like as business failures, and calls for journalists to be fired. Mr. Trump has called for rewriting libel laws in order to more easily sue the press....
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Trump's pal and puppet master
Trump's pal and puppet master Putin just murders any journalists that don't report the facts he approves.
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>>>>>CNN stroking the Left
>>>>>CNN stroking the Left
IMO CNN is pretty centrist, maybe even slightly Right. Substitute MSNBC and you'd be more accurate.
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>>>>>Some of you may have
>>>>>Some of you may have noticed that we’re living through a period in which the executive branch of government is engaged in a systematic effort to create a climate of opinion against the news business.
See Germany, 1933.
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See America, 2017
See America, 2017
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Enemy of the people has a
Enemy of the people has a long history.
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In Memory of Michael Hastings
In Memory of Michael Hastings
On July 18, 2013, Investigative Journalist Michael Hastings, the man who single-handedly brought down one of the most powerful men in the military with his reporting,521 died in a fiery car crash in Los Angeles.
Suspicious circumstances of his death immediately began streaming in. For example, Hastings had contacted the Wikileaks lawyer just hours before his death worried that he was being followed by the FBI.522
The next day, an email that Hastings had sent to colleagues was released, titled 'FBI Investigation re:NSA'. It stated: “I'm on to a big story, and need to go off the radar for a bit.”523
In a 2012 interview, Hastings revealed that he had received numerous death threats from recent investigative reporting.524 “Yes. Every once and awhile, I'll get a death threat from someone–like, 'if we don't like what you write, we'll hunt you down and kill you' kind of thing.”
The autopsy report found that neither drugs nor alcohol played a role in the crash.525 Why, then, have witnesses described Hastings' vehicle, a Mercedes C250 (a car not prone to bursting into flames) traveling at full speed down a suburban road, crossing a red light and then skipping over a median into a tree, exploding?526 Security footage from a gas station caught the speeding, the crash and the explosion, confirming the eyewitness testimony.527
“Hastings was intensely interested in government surveillance of journalists. In May, the story broke about the Department of Justice obtaining the phone records of Associated Press reporters. A couple weeks later, Edward Snowden's revelations about the National Security Agency's massive surveillance program became public. Hastings was convinced he was a target....
One night in June, he came to Thigpen's apartment after midnight and urgently asked to borrow her Volvo. He said he was afraid to drive his own car. She declined, telling him her car was having mechanical problems.
"He was scared, and he wanted to leave town," she says.
The next day, around 11:15 a.m., she got a call from her landlord, who told her Hastings had died early that morning. His car had crashed into a palm tree at 75 mph and exploded in a ball of fire.” – LA Weekly528
The type of cyber attack that could have taken control of Hastings' vehicle is very real, confirmed by independent hackers to a Forbes journalist in a demonstration529, and by the government itself, in a presentation by DARPA, the Defense Advances Research Projects Agency.530
Rest in peace Michael Hastings, and to each and every victim of the Pathocracy. We will pick up where you left off.
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so i just watched
so i just watched yiannapolous on maher's show. wtf is wrong with you people? he is considered dangerous, homophobic, and a fascist? you people need to lighten the fuck up or at least carry out your "threat" to leave the country if trump was elected. first time i ever saw or heard him & he was hilarious. get a damn grip, play more dead, do something to feed your fever.
this was the guy that was the reason all hell broke loose at berkeley? really????
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I don't think any zoners were
I don't think any zoners were there that night.
I think conservatives were paid to be disruptive.
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It's the damn vietcong
It's the damn vietcong
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hillman is part the problem
hillman is part of the problem not the solution. Nancy noticed too.
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>>> first time i ever saw or
>>> first time i ever saw or heard him & he was hilarious.
you might have a different opinion after hearing more of what he has to say.
then again, you might not.
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> I think conservatives were
> I think conservatives were paid to be disruptive.
That's Robert Reich's take too.
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/317773-reich-suggests-right-wingers-may-have-been-behind-berkeley-protests
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Well, him and his award
Well, him and his award winning cabinet, advisors, and shilling Faux News.
Obama averaged 10 mil a year on travel, so called prez spent that in one month.
Projected $ for protecting the First Model in NY for 8 possible years? 140 mil.
Can you imagine Michelle Obama living in Chicago for 8 years because "the kids go to school there"?
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Melania's living in NYC
Melania's living in NYC because a hot mic caught the pussy grabber.
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Pogo:
Pogo:
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THEM!!
THEM!!
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The stupidity is strong in
The stupidity is strong in this thread.
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>The stupidity is strong in
>The stupidity is strong in this thread.
Link?
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Anyone else remember this?
Anyone else remember this?
The Enemy Is Listening
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