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Note: Number 3 isn’t what you think. Beck shows Ross as incompetent and stupid.
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Seizing on the scandal involving President Obama’s “open mic” obsequious conversation with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Glenn Beck has announced that Paul Kengor’s explosive new book on Frank Marshall Davis will be published this summer through Beck’s Mercury Ink outlet. Davis was a pro-Moscow communist who helped raise and mentor Obama.
Davis, Beck says, is the key to understanding Obama’s pro-Russian foreign policy.
The new Kengor book carries the title, THE COMMUNIST Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor. Mercury Ink, which is publishing the book, is the publishing imprint of Mercury Radio Arts, Inc., a multimedia production company owned by Beck.
In the embarrassing “open mic” incident, Obama told Medvedev that he needed some “space” from the Russians before meeting any more of their demands, and that he would have more “flexibility” after being re-elected. Medvedev promised to transmit the information to “Vladimir,” meaning Vladimir Putin, the former KGB officer who is going to assume the Russian presidency for the second time on May 7. Putin has described the fall of the Soviet Union as “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.”
One of the leading analysts of the international communist movement, Kengor has written that the evidence, including Davis’s 600-page FBI file, demonstrates that “…a mentor of the current president of the United States was a Communist—and not only a party member, but an actual propagandist for Stalin’s USSR…”
I know I gave a little bit of my view on journalism on my blog but I feel I need to add more. I was going through my email. I came across a newsletter on journalism I subscribe to. An article on the newsletter caught my eye called: Fox News Fracas Aside, the White House Makes Some Valid Points.
I went to read the article. I found myself making comment. I didn’t agree with his view. I just had to make a comment.
I was reading a book written by Tom Fenton called ‘Bad News’. He writes in his book part of the problem with the news is cut backs. I have to say “Yeah, cut backs create problems towards good journalism.”
But Tom Fenton also states in his book some of the problem is lazy reporting (not stating facts right instead of researching the facts, bias, stuff along these lines) I have to say this is problem too. I find some reporters or journalists just give a leader’s view point on a bill. For instance, take the health care bill. Newspapers and broadcasting news tell the leaders view point of instead of going to the bill, finding the facts in the bill, and giving a blow by blow report on it. I have yet to find something like this in newspapers or broadcasting news except in blogs I read.
I have yet to see reporters/journalist like the two that discovered Watergate and brought a president down. I have yet to see a reporter write a story about a leaders bad ethics that should be brought into check or oust of office.
There should be more reporting on foreign affairs so we’re not caught off guard. There should be some old time journalism with the new, meaning foot work. As Tom Fenton also wrote in his book, journalist should be the watchmen for the people, letting us know “the British are coming” for the lack of better words. I agree with this but I haven’t seen it lately.
I agree with Pete and Katy.
Not to mention, I have read both sides and listen to both sides. Sir, I can’t help but think what some people call the conservative news is more “fair and objective” than the so called liberal news.
Perhaps, the newspapers and broadcasting news should do a survey to the people around to find out what they want. They should get back in touch with people instead of alienating them.
Both articles seemed to me to be criticizing Fox News and sticking up for the liberal news. The gentleman mentioned the decline in newspaper sales and the decline in folks watching broadcasting news like ABC too. Of course, I am not sure if the gentleman meant to criticize Fox News or not. I am giving him a benefit of a doubt here and say he didn’t mean it.
I have read books on this similar subject of the decline of newspapers and broadcast news. Yes, some by what some people call liberals books too. The liberal books I read just mention the problem as cut backs for the decline. The conservative books I read mention cut backs but also bias on the decline. To me liberal bias is the problem with the Mainstream Media, not just cut backs.
I don’t know about anybody else but I have seen bias in newspaper articles by reporters. Not to mention, with broadcasting news. I have read articles where a reporters view was written in the article. The article wasn’t in the opinion column, the blog section, or lifestyles section but in regular news section. I have read a article where the reporter sounded gleeful about the swine flu becoming an epidemic. (I kid you not about that. He did sound gleeful about it.) I have read articles where the reporter fawned over a president so much I wanted to puke. I have read articles where the reporter was down right nasty and hateful. I wondered why he hadn’t been fired. It is also one way to alienate people. I have read articles that were so sugar coated I couId go into a diabetic coma.
I do have to admit I do like an article where the reporter regularly does sports, ends up writing about a ballet. It is pretty interesting in a cute way.
I want to see “fair and objective” in the news. To me “fair and objective” is being as neutral as Switzerland during World War 2. The reporter’s view is good in the lifestyle section, the blog section, and opinion column but not regular news. I don’t mind bias on broadcast programs like Glenn Beck, Keith Olbermann, Sean Hannity. If I don’t like them I don’t have to watch them, change channel. Also, it is the job of the host on these programs to stir things up and make people think. With regular news it should be “fair and objective”. I feel like I have been let down by these companies and wished they would get a freakin’ clue.
NOTE: The gentleman that I talked about in this post is named Tony Rogers. I may not agree with some of the stuff he writes but he does have good advise on writing journalism, writing tips, etc., check him out at Tony Rogers.
Glenn, you have perhaps no bigger fan of your philosophy, nor a more eager consumer of your many books, broadcasts and events, than me. One of the more memorable events in my life was attending your Restoring Honor rally in Washington, D.C., and sharing breakfast with you, several hundred supporters and Gov. Sarah Palin, in support of the Special Operations Warrior Fund. Never will I forget hearing you announce, “Ladies and gentleman, security just notified me that we should all go soon, because the crowd is already filled beyond the reflecting pool.” Thank you for the greatness of your vision and the amazing courage of your convictions.
The emotional turmoil and political strife swirling throughout our beloved country only grows in intensity by the day. The significance of 2012’s monumental election is creating an ever growing wedge between my political reasoning and yours. Our political divergence is something I - and my instincts tell me - millions of your God fearing, patriotic devotees are struggling with as well. Given this assumption, my personal request is simply this: Seek first to understand. Disagree with vigor, but please respect the intelligence, reasoning and conclusions of millions that disagree with you, without caustic sarcasm, demeaning ridicule or elitist derision. The spirit you exemplified on stage during your Restoring Honor rally is not being modeled in the heat of this debate.
Possessing only modest personal accomplishments in relation to yours, and noting my 2012 political calculus has steered me to the exact same destination reached by Gov. Sarah Palin, Gov. Rick Perry and the citizens of South Carolina, please permit me to subject my ex-USAF instructor pilot’s “situational analysis” for your learned examination and potentially biting critique.
Washington, D.C., is largely a cesspool of deceit, corruption and soulless operatives. Legacy media outlets, staffed with their pseudo cult-hero, print and television personalities, are further detached from the spirit of our Founding Fathers and the values of every day citizens than Reverend Jeremiah Wright is from the teachings of Jesus Christ. The perverted nexus of crony capitalism, where Wall Street long ago fused their interests with Washington’s corrupted politicians, have selfishly driven our ship of state to a point that we may never recover. Perhaps no one person has been more instrumental in shining the national spotlight on our nation’s dire situation than you. For this fact alone, you will forever have my admiration.
So, here we stand, a loosely organized, rag tag, Tea Party militia, facing Gettysburg-battle odds, engaging godless media empires, two fully compromised political establishments with unlimited funding, and a grossly mis-educated community of voters organized by charismatic charlatans. Barack Obama has engineered a Gordian Knot of Cloward and Piven-inspired laws, subsidies and extra-constitutional regulations designed to “fundamentally transform” our western values, economic model, heath care system, and Judeo-Christian priorities in favor of the social justice dreams of his Kenyan father.
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