There is an amazing story that broke this week that I could simply not refrain from discussing here. Journogate, as we will call it here, has only this week exploded into an embarrassing scandal, truly exposing the unethical journalistic approach of the mainstream media.
Uncovered by Tucker Carlson, whose website dailycaller.com has written extensively on the topic, journogate centers around 400 members of the mainstream media who belonged to a common listserv. The listserv, journolist, was a shared email list comprised of several hundred journalists, professors, and activists. As we have come to find out, it was through journolist that the mainsteam media and other intellectual elites met to discuss and plot strategies to enter liberal bias into the media and destroy any sort of counter thought from anyone disagreeing with their agenda. Not exactly the definition of impartial journalistic integrity, is it?
Journolist was created by influential mainstream media member and writer at the Washington Post, Ezra Klein. Members of journolist included supposed ethical journalists from organizations such as the Washington Post, NPR, Time Magazine, the Guardian, the Baltimore Sun, Columbia Journalism Review, the Nation, and dozens of others. Together, these agents of progressivism schemed to weave their thought into the minds of readers throughout the country.
In the lead up to the historic presidential election of 2008, one of the most stinging controversies to emerge about Senator Obama was his relationship to the highly racist Reverend Jeremiah Wright. No matter how hard he tried, Obama could simply not dodge this “inconvenient truth”. During debates questions were asked of Obama’s membership of Wright’s church outside Chicago. Clearly, the public had the right to know why Obama would attend worship at a church with a Reverend who spewed hate and racism from the pulpit. With no where else to turn, members of the mainstream media and journolist, in particular, came to aid.
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