By Douglas MacKinnon
Thursday, January 02, 2014
All the mainstream media love to trumpet the winning of
the now sadly tainted and greatly devalued Pulitzer Prize, given almost
exclusively to left-leaning journalists from a left-leaning committee.
While we know how they like to celebrate suspect accolades,
how do these same mainstream media admonish themselves when they make an
egregious error of epic proportions?
How do the mainstream media come clean to the American
people and let them know that purely because of their own political and
personal bias, they went out of their way to deliberately deceive their readers
and viewers as they ignored, under-reported or flat-out misrepresented the
"facts" surrounding the most important story in years. A story that
directly affects every single American.
Thomas Jefferson once said: "Were it left to me to
decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers
without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the
latter." Jefferson was correct to want a press that was free, honest,
ethical and served the American people.
Tragically, what we have today are mainstream media that
put the socialist and destructive policies of the far left well before
objectivity, professionalism or the welfare of the American people and actively
promote those "progressive" policies while simultaneously working to
discredit conservative and common-sense opposition.
No better example of this mainstream-media malfeasance
exists than the case of ObamaCare and the thousands of liberal
"journalists" at the networks, cable networks, newspapers and radio
outlets who chose — out of loyalty to the president and his naively utopian
nanny-state beliefs — to shill for a program they knew to be built on a
foundation of lies from day one.
Worse than knowing it was built on a foundation of
deceit, most also knew it would decimate our health-care system, increase costs
for tens of millions of Americans and put doctors in an untenable position.
They knew it, and they still hid the truth.
Do any of these journalists now feel shame or remorse?
Are they not embarrassed by the unassailable fact that almost their entire
industry went into the tank for President Obama and the Democrats to
propagandize a fairy tale?
Doesn't anyone now feel a responsibility to tell the
truth and finally do his or her job in an unbiased manner? Unfortunately, no.
Since the day in 2010 when then-Speaker of the House
Nancy Pelosi mind-numbingly said, "But we have to pass the bill
(ObamaCare) so that you can find out what's in it," most of the mainstream
media knew something was amiss.
Just because they're biased and unethical does not mean
they are unintelligent or can't at least ask basic questions in private.
Over three years ago, a number of these journalists did
start going to primary-care doctors and specialists and asking about the
ramifications of ObamaCare.
Three years ago and longer these journalists knew there
were a growing number of doctors warning about government intervention,
rationing, price increases, Americans being kicked off their plans, the forced
replacement of primary-care doctors and mass confusion.
All these concerns — and many more — were communicated
directly to many in the mainstream media.
And yet, they still purposely chose to ignore the
warnings and perpetuate a myth. Why?
Two main reasons:
First, a majority in the mainstream media desperately
wanted to see Obama re-elected in 2012 and knew it would be much harder to
obtain that outcome if his signature program were exposed as the fraud it was.
Second, as an editor at a top-10 newspaper once told me,
many of these "journalists" put far-left ideology before all and are
willing to sacrifice the truth in service to that cause.
Normally, at the end of each year, the mainstream media
seek to publicize the most important story over the last 12 months.
To make that task easier for them, I would submit that
the most newsworthy story of 2013 was the mainstream media burying the most
newsworthy story of 2013.
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