Over the past several years the news media has taken a turn
for the worst. A real reporter is a dying breed. No one wants to get down to
the truth they just want to give their political views on what is going on in
the world according to their assumption. When I was in journalism class that’s
not what I was taught.
You see the definition of journalism is simple. It is the activity
or profession of writing for newspapers, magazines, or news websites (wasn’t a
part of my journalism studies since websites came long after I got out of school),
or preparing news to be broadcast. So now ask yourself what’s news?
When I was younger and we listened to the news we heard
reports of current events going on around the world. Journalist wrote their
newspaper articles on truth based facts not their opinions. My journalist teacher used to tell us to look
at all the facts and to try and keep your personal feelings out of it because
as the reporter you were not to be invested in the story from your point of
view but to tell the news as it really happened with pride and integrity. Where
is the integrity in the news media today?
Over the years one station at a time, just seem to drift
away from what is real and just started to add all these commentators as their
reporters who have more mouth than brains. I do my research every day just like
I was taught. Not just for my blog but for the books I am writing. I don’t want
to be wrong about anything I put out there for the public to read. I don’t want
to be someone who fills someone’s head with lies and deceit.
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Every night my husband flips through the news channels and
every night I cringe as I listen to the different voices and the different telling
of the stories going on not just around this country but around the world. I
could not believe how during the last administration our so called, mainstream
media, jumped on the band wagon against our police and rallied around rioters
and thugs yet when something happened that deserved their attention there was
no one around. I am sure you all remember the report about the little girl who
was doing her homework in her mother’s bedroom when shots were fired and the nine
year old child was struck dead from a stray bullet that went through the wall
and the mother was shot in the leg, thanks to the rioters in the streets. Oh,
you don’t remember that? I understand why because the mainstream media didn’t
pick it up. It wasn’t news worthy enough. In other words no one was protesting
that or rioting in the streets for the child’s life so it wasn’t covered yet a
mother lost part of her heart as she had to lay her child to rest and the thugs
continued to do their damage. In case you haven’t heard about this it happened
in Ferguson. I found out about it like many others, on social media. http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/08/nine-year-old-ferguson-girl-shot-dead-in-her-bed-in-drive-by-shooting-no-protests-planned/
The only media outlet to hold true and strong to its belief
has been FOX NEWS and now they are under attack. Cracks me up how so many
people turn so quickly on someone. I am not saying I don’t believe or I do
believe what these women are saying about Mr. O’Reilly but please when is this
going to stop. When are we going to start saying to women who bring out allegations
of sexual abuse or harassment years after it happened that we need more than
your word against his before you stop allowing them to ruin careers? No one is
perfect and no one is an angel but to be able to claim sexual harassment years
after it happened isn’t right. You need to call it out when it happens especially
in today’s day and age because it isn’t something that people hush and brush
under the rug. When someone does this, when they wait years and years to bring
this to the attention of others and confront the so called abuser take note
people, they aren’t doing it to the man or woman who makes minimum wage they
are going up against those who make millions so they can get a payoff to keep
it quiet and not ruin their name. Not because they are admitting to the charges
but because they worked hard to get to where they are in their lives and they
don’t want someone ruining it. Are there men and women who are guilty of harassment
and abuse, of course there are but if you are so sure you have a case then take
them to court and see to it justice is paid and not just your pocket.
I mean even with the Trump campaign someone pulled out some
recording they held onto for years about something Trump said about women to other
men, locker room talk. Do I agree with it no but am I dumb enough to think men
don’t talk like that, no way. As for any woman who was “offended” by what was
said, give me a break! I have listened to many a woman talk about men in the
same way except the body parts were different. No one in this world is perfect
but the news media took a Pitbull bit on this and wouldn’t let go. They tried
all they could to disgrace him and turn his followers against him but surprise
to them it only strengthened our belief in him as a real human being who
understands the regular person. I mean come on folks, he grew up around
construction sights do you think they talked about their Wednesday night
knitting club? If so I have a bridge I want to sell you so contact me.
The anger spewed by the mainstream media at those in the
White House, the First Family, and anyone attached to the Trump administration
is a disgrace. They are digging and hoping for chaos in the White House and
then they are upset when President Trump comes out and talks about how amazing
his staff is and how they all work well together. You know the problem isn’t
Trump’s administration, the problem is Congress can’t get their poop together
and the mainstream media can’t keep their heads on straight just spinning
around hoping for something to blow up or someone screw up so they can keep the
drama going. They are more of a soap opera
then a daily news report. Sad to say many of them are a laughing stock.
Our so called mainstream media has been the cause of so much
chaos and confusion in this country by spreading lies and propaganda. Yet when
real news hits they keep it quiet until they can get a negative spin on it. They
rather come in later with a story and be able to fill it full of holes then
come out with the truth. It’s amazing, journalism today is a joke, just like
most of today’s reporters.
Unfortunately there are enough scary things going on around
the world today that President Trump had to take a stand on. The mainstream
media can keep reporting how Trump was wrong and how he should have done things
differently but like Jesse Watters said “Don’t you think the commander-in-chief
knows a little bit more about a breaking international security incident than
two desk anchors?” These so called
reporters are going on leaks from the White House or some other source of
information they don’t need to make ready to the public yet they expect the
President to release top secret information to them and in doing so the public.
Why because they are the press and they feel entitled? It doesn’t work that
way.
France faced a terrorist attack and President Trump sent his
condolences. Actually that’s more than Obama ever would have done at least as
far as we know since it was never televised if he did anything nice like that.
Not only did President Trump offer is condolences he called a spade a spade,
and said right out it was a terrorist attack during a press conference when the
prime minister from Italy was here. Of course NBC had two commentators who felt
it wasn’t right for the President to say it was terrorism. As if they know more
than the President and his advisors.
I have said this time and again President Trump does not
show his hand. He will not spill out top secret information and he will not
tell his enemies what he plans to do. He stated this time and again in one
interview after another. As a country we need to start to remember the commander-in-chief
is just that. He is the one responsible for our safety and to show his hand
before he makes his play only puts every American Citizen in jeopardy.
It’s amazing the only news stations I now feel I can watch
and not want to throw the television out the window is FOX News and One America
News Network. Two out of all those so called news stations out there are the
only ones that tell it like it is not like the Democrats want us to hear it.
I spend a lot of time researching. I don’t take anything at
face value because I have a suspicious nature. Perhaps it’s my Italian
upbringing but I have learned over the years that you cannot believe something
just because someone said so. You have to do your homework, you have to search
for the truth and you have to have the nerve to call the liars out on it. Journalist
who report the news as it actually happens are reporters with integrity. Those
who report the news and adlib are conspiracy theorists who should probably
write the next best seller instead of reporting their fabricated news.
America is a land of free speech and for this I am grateful
but as far as reporting the news, in my opinion, these people should be held to
a high standard and not allowed to doctor up the news to help with their own
agenda. Telling the truth never hurt anyone but lying can destroy and hurt many
lives with just a single lie or stretching of the truth.
In my opinion it’s best for all Americans to start thinking
for themselves and to not let others influence them. In order to heal this
country we need to start to heal from within the way they started to spread the
disease with lies and deception. So I pray every day for the healing of this
great nation and for people to see the truth before them and allow the lies to
lay at the side of the road to be swept up and taken away.
May God Bless America and show us the truth.
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