7/26/13

FREEDOM OF THE PRESS DOES NOT MEAN LACKING ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY--POST 165

Hi,

Justice is getting harder and harder to come by. The reason the fourth estate (the press) was treated so liberally in the Constitution is simple. It was supposed to provide balanced INFORMATION for citizens to assimilate and thereby decide the rightness of any vote or action that had to be made.

It is too bad that the forces against our republic today choose to forget why that liberal freedom was granted.  America has gone overboard to protect Freedom of the Press. Unfortunately, the enemies of a free state, one not tied to government control, have found ways to exploit that freedom for the benefit of only their beliefs.

Technology has provided a large forum for the press to inhabit and the nature of the beast provides tremendous opportunity for exploitation of news. More often than not, the press on TV and particularly the net has become a MOUTHPIECE for certain factions of NON-FREEDOM LOVING SEGMENTS of society. As long as the author's ideology is presented under his/her name, it is ethical; not by-lined (author's name), it is gossip.

THIS BLOGGER FINDS THIS TO BE TRUE AS WELL OF NEWS REPORTS IN EGYPT WHERE MANY  UNTRAINED REPORTERS WITH STRONG SPECIAL INTERESTS HAVE SWAMPED THE NEWS ABOUT EGYPT'S PROBLEMS. Much of this happened when Egyptians voted in a new president in a tumultuous election. It obviously wasn't clear to many Egyptian voters that  the Muslim Brotherhood intended to take over the country, make changes in its constitution so as to follow Sharia law and generally make Egypt a member of the Islamist community.

This blog is not dedicated to telling Egyptians what they should do.  Unfortunately this blogger doesn't even know what America should do about its split factions. The blog  rather is about the RESPONSIBILITY OF REPORTERS as well as NEWS MEDIA DIGESTS AND OTHER NEWS REPORTING AGENCIES.

THERE ARE NEWS WRITERS EVERYWHERE, SEEMINGLY UNDER EVERY CRACK IN THE SIDEWALK THESE DAYS AND THE ONLY OBLIGATION APPEARS TO BE THAT THINK THEY KNOW SOMETHING.  REAL NEWS REPORTERS ---THROUGH THEIR DERELICTION TO ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY-- HAVE BEEN REPLACED BY WRITERS CLAIMING KNOWLEDGE THAT IS ACTUALLY IDEOLOGY AND  A BACKGROUND IN POLITICAL DISSEMBLING. THERE IS NO UNDERSTANDING OR WILLINGNESS FOR OBJECTIVITY AND SELF-REGULATION. THE INFORMATION IS NOT DESIGNATED AS GOSSIP, PERSONAL OPINION, BLOG, OR PUBLIC RELATIONS BUT THROWN IN WITH "REAL NEWS".  

THE PRESS IN ALL COUNTRIES HAS LOST RESPECT BECAUSE IT HAS SIMPLY BECOME AN OUTLET FOR ITS OWN BIAS. THERE WAS ALWAYS SOME BIAS BUT ORIGINALLY THE PRESS AT LEAST ATTEMPTED TO PRESENT BOTH SIDES OF AN ISSUE THEREBY KEEPING BIAS AT A REASONABLE LEVEL. WHEN THE REPORTER OR NEWS VENDOR GOT OUT OF LINE, THERE WERE EDITORS WHO SLAPPED THEIR KNUCKLES AND  ASKED "WHAT KIND OF SHIT-ASS REPORTER ARE YOU ANYWAY ???????????REWRITE THIS AND KEEP IT REAL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IN JUST THAT LANGUAGE AND THE MOST SCORNFUL TONE POSSIBLE.

THIS  BLOGGER CAME OUT OF THAT SCHOOL OF BRUISED KNUCKLES AND EGO BUT BY DAMN I RESPECTED IT. WHEN WE EXPRESSED OUR OWN OPINION, IT WENT UNDER OUR BY-LINE (SIGNATURE) SO THAT WE WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ELEMENTS WITHIN IT.  THERE ARE A FEW OF THAT TYPE OF REPORTER LEFT BUT THEY ARE GETTING LOST IN THE MORASS OF PHONY NEWS AND WITH NEWSPAPERS ABOUT TO GO UNDER WE ARE ABOUT TO LOSE ANY REAL NEWS TO PROPAGANDA REPORTS.

WHO CURRENTLY RESPECTS THE PUBLIC RELATIONS TRIVIA THAT COMES OUT OF THE MEDIA, NEWSPAPERS, OR THE COMPUTER DRIVEL ????????????? THE PROUD REPORTERS OUT THERE ARE BEING OVERSHADOWED BY THE BIASED AND RABID  SENSATIONALISTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHO JUST DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT TRUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Al Jazeera (English) HEADLINES  a current article "Egypt coup spotlights local media complaints" (7/24/13) The author, Courtney C. Radsch states that any media code of ethics "needs to be based on self-regulation." (or maybe we need some old-time sarcastic editors??????????!!!) "the domestic media landscape lacks objectivity and is increasingly partisan." Hey this sounds familiar although it's about Egypt???????? "Experts say it was a major contributor to-as well as a victim of political turmoil- that divided the nation into camps against and for....................." This from a part of the press that is known by it's Islamic bias.  Well written comments  promote self-regulation.

 Ayman Al-Sayyad, a journalist told Al Jazeera that "The surge of television channels after Morsi was elected,  abandoned objectivity. He said  "these 'vessels'....became a tool..........rather than informative."

 It points up how quickly 'NEWS" CAN BECOME PROPAGANDA'. Let's face it. A Code of Ethics will only be as good as the respect GIVEN TO IT. The framers of a  NEWS code that is professionally responsible AND  ethical, MUST BE drafted by independent journalists without intrusion by Politicos. IT ALSO MUST BE overseen by ethical MEDIA owners and the editors of the media outlets.  THAT IS THE ONLY WAY that  REPORTERS WILL GAIN RESPECT AGAIN!!!! BY FOLLOWING  A CODE OF TRUTH AND FAIRNESS TO ALL PARTIES THEREBY EARNING RESPECT WITH THEIR COVERAGE OF NEWS OR  NEWS ARTICLES.

AND OF COURSE, OUR BIG MONIED AND MOUTHED  PRESIDENT HAS WEIGHED IN ON  LEADERSHIP BY FIRST SAYING HE WAS SENDING f-16 FIGHTERS THEN HALTING THE DELIVERY TO SHOW DISAPPROVAL OF THE MORSI OUSTER. THAT ENCOURAGED THE PRESS TO FILL IN WITH AN ANONYMOUS SPOKESMAN QUOTED AS SAYING "TRYING TO BREAK THE NECK OF THE BROTHERHOOD IS NOT GOING TO BE GOOD FOR EGYPT OR FOR THE REGION". OF COURSE WE ARE TOLD OUR PRESIDENT DOES NOT ADMIT TO FAVORING ISLAM.

Personally this blogger believes that if a spokesman is afraid to admit who's talking, then give us a break PUL............LEEZE and don't print it because it's most likely PROPAGANDA !!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND EXCUSES THE GUILTY !!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS BLOGGER HAS TO ASK WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHO DISAGREE!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE GUARDIAN HAS THIS TO SAY: "THE UNITED STATES HAS PUSHED FOR EGYPT'S VARIOUS FACTIONS TO RECONCILE AND FOR THE MILITARY TO ALLOW THE BROTHERHOOD BACK INTO POLITICS, MANY SECULAR EGYPTIANS RECOIL AT THE IDEA. 

THE ARTICLE CONTINUES:"RECONCILIATION IS A VERY VAGUE TERM SAID SHADI AL-GHAZSALY HARB, A MEMBER OF THE LIBERAL CONSTITUTION PARTY AT A GATHERING OF THE 30JUNE FRONT, ONE OF THE GROUPS THAT MOBILIZED PROTESTERS AGAINST MORSI. "THE U.S.  UNDERSTANDS THE WORD FROM ONE PERSPECTIVE, HE SAID, AND WE UNDERSTAND IT FROM ANOTHER." THIS POINTS OUT THAT NOT ONLY IS TRUTH DIFFICULT TO DETERMINE SINCE IT REQUIRES BOTH  POINTS OF VIEW BUT DIFFERENCES IN LANGUAGE AND UNDERSTANDING BECOME PARAMOUNT FACTORS !!!!!!!!!!!! DOESN'T ETHICAL REPORTING BECOME EVEN MORE NECESSARY IN THE FACE OF ALL THAT ????????????????????????????

THIS BLOGGER OFFERS THAT EVERYTHING THAT'S WRONG WITH THE EGYPTIAN PRESS CAN BE SAID OF OUR PRESS. AND UNLESS THE WRONGS ARE RIGHTED, WE LOSE THE KNOWLEDGE AND FREEDOM TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT PATH.  ONCE LOST, THE PRESS AND U.S. CITIZENS WILL FIND FREEDOM OF THE PRESS WITH RESPONSIBLE ETHICS AND LACK OF BIAS HARD TO RECOVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FREEDOM OF THE PRESS DOES NOT MEAN REPORTING THAT LACKS ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY AND KNOWLEDGE.  AN ETHICAL FREE PRESS PUTS ASIDE BIAS FOR TRUTH.

CHEERS, CONNIE

7/19/13

AMERICAN JUSTICE PREVAILED! INNOCENT BY REASONABLE DOUBT. POST 164

Hi,

While the press is yammering over a few sensationalists whining about civil rights, which are alive and well, thank you, this blogger chooses to applaud a jury who saved the American Judicial system from TYRANNY. CONGRATULATIONS FOR VINDICATING A JUST AND MORAL JUDICIAL SYSTEM.

OUR COURT SYSTEM INSTRUCTS A JURY ON WHAT THEY ARE CONSIDERING: THE VARIOUS CHARGES AND THE POSSIBLE NOT GUILTY VERDICT. In the Zimmerman case there was no real evidence that the shooting was NOT in SELF DEFENSE AND FRANKLY MANY INDICATIONS THAT IT WAS SELF DEFENSE. BUT NO REAL PROOF!!!!!!!!!!!!

THEREFORE, IF THE JURY HAD RETURNED A VERDICT OF ANYTHING BUT 'NOT GUILTY', IT WOULD HAVE MEANT THAT OUR LAWS HAD BEEN RIPPED APART BY INNUENDO, GOSSIP, NBC-COMMUNIST AND" BLACK RACISM" LIES, AND PURE AND SIMPLE PROPAGANDA. THE ACQUITTAL VINDICATES AMERICA'S JURY SYSTEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The jury did the only thing THEY COULD HAVE DONE and DEFENDED LAW AND ORDER IN AMERICA. AN ACQUITTAL IS NECESSARY WHEN PROOF DOES NOT EXIST!!!!!! IT IS TOO BAD THAT THE INCIDENT ENDED IN THE DEATH OF A TEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ALTHOUGH WE HAVE TO ADMIT THAT TEENAGERS ALL OVER AMERICA ARE MORE DEFIANT THAN EVER BEFORE AND MYRIAD CRIMES ARE COMMITTED YOUNGER (AS YOUNG AS 12 AND 13 YEARS OLD (BECAUSE OF A LACK OF PARENTAL CONTROL).

REMEMBER THAT THE COURT IS SWORN TO A POSITION OF "INNOCENT UNTIL 'PROVEN' GUILTY BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT"!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHY IS THIS GOOD ?????????????????? BECAUSE IF YOU ARE FOOLISH AND GET CAUGHT IN A SIMILAR WEB OF CIRCUMSTANCES THAT SOMEONE WANTS TO EXPLOIT FOR REASONS OF THEIR OWN, YOU CANNOT BE PUT IN JAIL FOR SOMETHING OTHER THAN WHAT  CAN BE PROVED TO HAVE  HAPPENED THAT IS LAID OUT BY DULY CHOSEN ATTORNEYS FOR BOTH SIDES  TO A JURY OF YOUR PEERS.

AND TO MAKE THE WHOLE THING MORE FAIR, ONLY RELEVANT TESTIMONY CAN BE ALLOWED BY THE COURT. EVEN THOUGH TRAYVON MARTIN HAD A HIGHLY QUESTIONABLE RECORD WITH DRUGS AND OTHER MISDEEDS, IT WAS NOT ALLOWED TO BE PRESENTED TO THE JURY BECAUSE IT MIGHT PREJUDICE SOME. ALSO GEORGE ZIMMERMAN'S ETHNIC BACKGROUND AS HALF PERUVIAN WAS NOT ALLOWED TO SWAY THE JURORS.

 THIS IS GOOD???????????????? BECAUSE???????????? YOU GO TO COURT AS AN INNOCENT VICTIM AND UNLESS YOU ARE PROVEN TO  HAVE COMMITED A CRIME  NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO CLAIM YOU ARE GUILTY OR TRY YOU AGAIN. AND THAT OUTCOME IS TRUE WHETHER YOU ARE ANY COLOR POSSIBLE TO MAN AND EVEN IF YOU ARE A PURPLE EXTRA-TERRESTIAL BEING.

IT IS WHAT MAKES AMERICA STRONG, FREE, AND EQUAL UNDER THE LAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PROTECT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!PROTECT IT!!!!!!!!!!! JUST AS THIS JURY OF YOUR PEERS DID. IT IS DESIGNED TO SAVE THE INNOCENT FROM BEING HARMED BY CIRCUMSTANCES OR PLOTS. AND THIS IS NOT TRUE IN ALL COUNTRIES OR UNDER DICTATORSHIPS WHERE SOMEONE CAN DECIDE THAT YOU COMMITTED WRONG DOING AND PUT YOU IN PRISON OR TO DEATH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SOMETIMES AS AMERICANS, WE TAKE OUR FREEDOM FOR GRANTED AND FORGET THE HARD FORGED LAWS THAT ALLOW US THIS FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!! THE SYSTEM WORKS AND THE ZIMMERMAN-MARTIN TRIAL PROVES IT TO THE "NTH" DEGREE.
DON'T LET MOUTHY FOOLS DISSUADE YOU THAT IT IS ALIVE AND WELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THAT BEING SAID, LET'S STOP LETTING COMMUNIST INTERFERENCE IN OUR SYSTEM DISTRACT US FROM THE REAL ISSUES OF THE DAY AND THE MISTAKES IN WASHINGTON: INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE MISDEEDS; NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY MISDEEDS; SEIZURE OF JOURNALIST RECORDS and NSA INVESTIGATIONS THAT ARE NOT LEGAL AS DIVULGED BY  SNOWDEN.  IN ALL OF THESE ISSUES, GOVERNMENT HOLDS  RESPONSIBILITY AS DOES OUR PRESIDENT.  BARACK OBAMA'S HAS  VALERIE JARRETT ON HIS LEFT HAND AND ERIC HOLDER ON HIS RIGHT,  ALLOWING OBAMA TO BE THE NICE, NICE, NICE GUY BUT THE BUCK STILL STOPS WITH HIM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AND LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT HOW CHASING SNOWDEN HAS DISTRACTED US FROM SEEING WHAT HE REVEALED PLUS CONDEMNING HIM WITHOUT TRIAL AND STRIPPING HIM OF HIS PASSPORT WITHOUT TRIAL.

 GLENN GREENWALD FROM THE GUARDIAN SAYS: "THE DEFINITION OF A" UBIQUITOUS SURVEILLANCE STATE" IS WHAT  NSA REPRESENTS AND THAT "ITS BEEN BUILT IN THE DARK, WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OR PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD, EVEN THOUGH IT'S AIMED AT THEM." HE ALSO STATES "I THINK THAT ULTIMATELY THE REAL ISSUE IS THE TOP LEVELS OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WENT TO CONGRESS AND LIED TO THE FACES OF CONGRESS, WHICH IS A FELONY............ARE WE WILLING TO TOLERATE HAVING TOP-LEVEL OBAMA OFFICIALS BLATANTLY LIE TO OUR REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS AND PREVENT THEM FROM EXERCISING OVERSIGHT ABOUT THESE SPYING PROGRAMS? I THINK THIS HAS TO BE THE FIRST SCANDAL TO SHOW THAT THERE ARE ACTUALLY CONSEQUENCES FOR THIS BEHAVIOR."

PRESIDENT OBAMA SET JULY 12 AS DEADLINE FOR ERIC HOLDER OF THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO  REVIEW KEITH ALEXANDER AND HIS  POLICIES  AS DIRECTOR OF NSA AND SUBMIT THE DEPARTMENT'S FINDINGS. THIS BLOGGER HAS HEARD PIECE MEAL INFORMATION ON THOSE FINDINGS.

WAS THE TOTAL RESULT IN THE NEWS?????????????? DID I MISS IT OR WAS IT REPLACED WITH RACIAL WHINING OR ZIMMERMAN TRIAL NEWS?????????????

MAKE NO MISTAKE, JUST AS WASHINGTON IS ADEPT AT FUELING ALL SORTS OF PROPAGANDA; IT IS ALSO ADEPT AT SIDESTEPPING THE REAL ISSUES WHILE FILLING THE MEDIA WITH PROPAGANDA. IT IS GETTING TO BE TIME TO DEMAND THAT THE NEWS MEDIA PRESENT US WITH FRONT PAGE 'REAL NEWS' AND PUT THE GOSSIP IN THE SECOND SECTION WHETHER NEWSPAPERS OR TV OR COMPUTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE MAIN EVENTS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IF THEY DON'T GET AWAY WITH IT, IT WILL STOP.

ONLY WHEN YOU TUNE OUT THE NONSENSE FOR THE REAL ISSUES, WILL THAT HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

CHEERS, CONNIE

7/12/13

DOES TRUTH AND JUSTICE STILL RULE?-- POST 163

Hi,

This blogger has not been able to write for awhile but before the Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin verdict comes in, I do have a few words to say.

Everything heard from legal eagles and my own understanding tells me that the prosecution failed to prove their case and that "not guilty" verdict is the order of the day. Whether this jury will find that they didn't prove "without a reasonable doubt" is a reasonable doubt!  This case has been set up from the beginning as another propaganda effort (at our expense) to try to ram racial injustice accusations down our throats.  From NBCs erroneous press report on Zimmerman's words to the highly "C" peppered groups gathered to condemn the verdict in Sanford if any other than the chosen verdict of the Communists, who love to use the notion of race discrimination to further their aims, is given. The trial was set up to be a production that didn't quite become as violent as the Communists would have liked.

This blogger received an email that said in part  ONLY IN AMERICA, WITH A BLACK SITTING PRESIDENT AND A FORMER BLACK SECRETARY OF STATE AND NUMEROUS BLACK CHAIRMEN AND WOMEN COULD THE COUNTRY BE ACCUSED OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION!!!!!!!!!!!

And this FROM  a STATISTICAL BASE OF 17% OF AMERICAN CITIZENS HOLDING THOSE HIGH OFFICES. KNOWING STATISTICS IS WHAT WE MAKE IT--THAT MAY BE LOWER OR HIGHER!!!!!!!!!!!! THE LATINS ARE WAY AHEAD  IN POPULATION NUMBERS.

DOES THAT TEND TO MEAN THAT ONLY IN AMERICA WE ARE SO BLIND FROM CONSTANT BRAIN WASHING BY THE PRESS AND WASHINGTON THAT WE CAN NOT SEE THE TREMENDOUS  PROGRESS WE HAVE MADE (AND THAT PROGRESS HAS BEEN AROUND FOR SOME TIME) THAT WE CAN NOT SEE THE CURRENT PILE OF  BRAIN WASHING ABOUT DISCRIMINATION IS JUST SO MUCH CRAP????????????????

MAYBE IT IS TIME TO CALL A HALT TO THE BLATANT AND HARMFUL PUBLIC RELATIONS GARBAGE DISHED OUT BY CERTAIN FACTIONS IN OUR SOCIETY WHO ARE FRIGHTENED OF LOSING THEIR INFLUENCE  AND POWER IF THE TRUTH IS REVEALED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MAYBE IT'S TIME TO BLAST WASHINGTON AND THE NETWORKS WITH A BARRAGE OF EMAILS TO SHUT THE LIARS UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If an unreal movie about sharks and tornadoes can stir a reaction--why can't THE TRUTH BE AS STRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IS THIS BLOGGER CLAIMING THAT NO AMERICAN EVER SPOUTS OFF RACIAL SLURS. OF COURSE NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUT THEY ARE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN.

 DON'T THINK PAULA DEEN'S TRIAL AND TRIBULATIONS WEREN'T SET OUT BY SOME RADICALS TO CONVINCE YOU THAT THE WHOLE SOUTH IS A HOTBED OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION!!!!!!!!!!!!! BULL---OONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This blogger finds the acceptance of media driven garbage to be an offense and an insult to American intelligence and it is now become a blow that MAY STRIKE AT THE HEART OF OUR COURT SYSTEM.  THIS BLOGGER HOPES THE VERDICT WILL BE A FAIR ONE AS A TRIAL IN AMERICA HAS ALWAYS BEEN TOUTED. WHATEVER YOUR OPINION OF THE ACTIONS OF TRAYVON MARTIN AND GEORGE ZIMMERMAN--THE RESULT OF ANY TRIAL MUST BE 'INNOCENT UNTIL--PROVEN--GUILTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I REST MY OPINION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CHEERS,

CONNIE HOUSER