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MSM Journalism – on the Left, always advocating for the Left & Big Govt

Journalism do and dontI have been commenting about this kind of stuff for years now: journalists that aren’t.  Members of the MainStream Media (MSM) that have “progressed” past the traditional “who, what, when, why, and how”, past the “afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted” to “make the world a better place”.

The first is reporting the news – straight up and down and as unbiased as possible.

The second started the trot towards advocacy and away from what most want – a faithful reporting of the news.

And now for the last few decades, we have seen the bias in the MSM to the point where it is rather antagonistic towards the half of the US population that is not Liberal (much to the profit of Fox News that was built to service this “under-served” market sector – and has gone on to clean the other MSM outlets’ collective clocks). And now, we see one of the Liberal uber-start, Chuck Todd (newly anointed to ascend to the MSM’s version of Nirvana: host of Meet The Press) perhaps now figuring that out:

In his “Ask Me Anything” session on Reddit on Friday, Todd seemed to realize the disconnect between Boomtown and the rest of the America.

“I certainly believe washington journalists have the same problem washington politicians have… we’ve collectively lost touch and credibility with the rest of America, outside the coasts (or as I like to say, the Acela Corridor of DC to Boston),” he said in a chat session a day before the insular Obama, who completely misread where the country stood on amnesty, decided not to enact executive amnesty until after the midterm elections. “I think it’s about getting back out in the America between the coasts… reporting on the struggles to dig out from the Great Recession. The coasts have dug out, other small cities and big towns have not.”

And it only took years and gobs of lost subscribers, viewers, profits, and stock prices to figure this out??  But as Rush has pointed out, just as leopards have to be true to what they are, so are these MSMers, as Tony Lee points out:

Todd interviewed Obama the next day. And on illegal immigration, which is the issue that represents the biggest divide between the permanent political class and the rest of America, Todd went all-in for Team Acela Corridor. He expressed more concern for illegal immigrants in his questions to President Barack Obama than American workers. And his inaugural panel did not discuss the impact of executive amnesty and unchecked immigration on the very workers that Todd said have been struggling to dig out of the Great Recession.

A leopard cannot change it’s spots – apparently, neither can Todd.  Say one thing to be “new”, revert back to his nature in the next.  I watched that interview (I tend to watch most of the Sunday AM talking head shows) and thought to myself “such deference to President “I Won”?  Is this “afflicting the comfortable”?  Hardly.  Was this leading softballing?  Certainly.  Sure, he interrupted Obama a few times (who hates having that done to him – rewatch Brett Bair’s interview with him), but not an interview that rises to that of any most Republican that Todd has tustled with in the past.  He pretty much gave Obama a pass. (H/T: Big Journalism) And a couple of quicker bytes:

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And then we see another “journalist”, Kate Bolduan, toeing the MSM line in trying to make The Maverick toe that same line:

On Thursday’s New Day, CNN’s Kate Bolduan hounded Senator John McCain to back President Obama’s new strategy to combat the Islamist terrorist group ISIS and help him gain congressional support: “We talk about how you are a critic of the administration. But now that there is a strategy, Senator – now that there is going to be action…how are you going to help the administration succeed now in implementing this?”

…BOLDUAN: Let me ask you this, then, because your criticisms, we often – we talk about how you are a critic of the administration. But now that there is a strategy, Senator – now that there is going to be action, I want to know from your standpoint, how are you – one of the big voices that we turn to a lot on these issues – how are you going to help the administration succeed now in implementing this?

Translation: support Obama!  The assumption is that Obama, in the mind of this MSMer, is that Obama must be followed – even as no one knows what the heck is in his “no strategy” strategy.

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One more, for emphasis: NBC’s White House correspondent Chris Jansing does a similar thing:

 “It’s a war the President inherited with decisions made now shaping his legacy and his successor’s as well. Something else to watch, while it’s too soon to tell how voters will react to the President’s plan from last night, if they rally around the Commander-in-Chief it could impact the midterm elections with control of the Senate at stake.”

It isn’t the “Commander-in-Chief”, it is Obama that she wants people to rally around.  A national journalist organizing for Obama? Translation: support Obama!

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