On the Contrary

Today I purposely tuned into CNN’s Reliable Sources to see if Howard Kutz would discuss John Stewart’s demonstration of their total lack of journalistic professionalism by again and again failing to fact test the wild claims Republicans have been making, while they did take some of their busy time to fact check a SNL sketch of Obama failures.  The piece that John did was instructive of how the media fails to correct obvious inaccuracies (See Monday’s Blog, Tis the Winter of My Discontent) leaving false impressions of credibility to outright lies or miss-characterizations. It is probably the most important thing the press could have examined about how they are manipulated by politicians and become simply megaphones for the message.

In one of the more cowardly moves by CNN, they ignored the story, probably because it reflects so badly on the professionalism of their journalists.  What was demonstrated is that these guys and gals are too lazy to do their homework and are just there to echo whatever is said.  It is why we went to war in Iraq for non-existent weapons of mass destruction and it is why the American public is so poorly informed on issues today.  CNN will be the last place I will be getting my news and once again, John Stewart stands as a giant among real journalists, and is the only trusted news source left.