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The Elites fund lapdog critics.
These "critics" fulminate against "unrestrained"
journalism. They are
working day and night to control or discredit
Internet Information.
Losing their stranglehold on "respectable"
journalism is a
nightmare to them.
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The Progressive Review
March 2, 1999
THE MEDIACRATS
The priggish Tom Rosenstiel of the Project on
Excellence [sic] in Journalism is back at it
again,
berating those who dared to tell the public the
Broaddrick story while the rest of the media
engaged
in what one commentator has called "the race to be
second." Rosenstiel and Bill Kovach offered this
snotty summation to Washington Post readers:
"After months of buzz from online gossip Matt
Drudge,
fulmination from cable television host Chris
Matthews
and insinuations from House Minority Whip Tom
DeLay
(D-Tex.), -- Juanita Broaddrick's sexual assault
allegation against Bill Clinton has flared in the
serious press."
Rosenstiel works for an outfit funded by the Pew
Charitable Trusts, a $5 billion piggy bank set up
by
the Pews of Sun Oil. One business writer described
Sun Oil this way:
"There wasn't a more quintessentially Philadelphia
company than Sun in the old days. Conservative,
insular and paternalistic, it was Big Oil's stodgy
sister . . . Between 1917 and 1970, Sun had two
chief
executive officers -- the brothers Pew, J. Howard
and
J. Norton -- both of whom monitored their
employees'
politics and morals as closely as they scrutinized
performance. In exchange, Sun offered its workers
lifetime employment."
Sort of sounds like the journalism that Rosenstiel
encourages. Which isn't all that surprising given
that Pews outvote non-Pews six to four on the
trust
board. Kovach runs the Nieman program, a sort of
Ivy
League re-education camp where once promising
journalists are taken to learn to think like
Harvard
graduates.
Rosenstiel and Kovach are leading advocates of the
Dilbert genre of journalism, where you get points
for
following proper bureaucratic procedures whether
or
not you ever actually get the story. Those of
their
ilk have failed over and over to get the Clinton
story right. Far more important, while double-
checking some facts, they have consistently
ignored
others and, worst, have presented a picture of the
Clintons that was utterly at odds with what they
knew
full well. The fact that they couldn't prove that
Clinton had raped Jane Doe #1 or 2 or 5 in no way
justifies the Nutrasweet portrait they created
instead.
The first rule of journalism is get the story.
And,
in the case of Clinton the journalists and
techniques
Rosenstiel and Kovach so admire failed miserably.
Why? Mark Steyn, a columnist for Britain's Daily
Telegraph and Canada's National Post, offered some
insight the other day:
"I've lost count of the number of times I've woken
up, switched on National Public Radio's morning
news
and heard at the top of the bulletin: 'The
president
travels today to [insert state here] to unveil his
proposals on [insert issue here].' That's not
news,
that's a press release some duty editor has
entered
in the diary.
"In both Britain and America, politics and
celebrity
are remorselessly converging. But there's one
fundamental difference: The British media treat
the
prime minister the same way the Sun treats Michael
Jackson or George Michael. If there's a rent boy
or
transsexual hooker or even an unpaid parking
ticket,
they want to get hold of it. By contrast, the U.S.
media treat the White House the same way, say,
Diane
Sawyer treats Barbra Streisand -- with the
appropriate sympathetic deference.
"Which would you say was more dominant in the
American media? The trend toward tabloid sleaze?
Or
toward monarchical deference? Look at last week's
newsmagazines: instead of running with 'Is Our
President a Rapist?,' they put the alleged
rapist's
wife on the cover in regal pose and cooed over the
unstoppable momentum of her mooted Senate
campaign.
. . .
"Indeed, the respectable media have achieved a
weird
distinction: They're boring without being serious.
The main reason is that, unlike the tabloid
reptiles,
the uptown boys seem to have an aversion to work."
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