Objectivity, Schmobjectivity!
A missile sits on the launchpad instead of blasting off and taking out an incoming threat ... and according to the LA Times, it's all gloom and doom for President Bush. (here)
The story is about yesterday's failed test of the proposed missile defense system, an idea MSM have railed against ever since President Reagan proposed it. In making the case -- a far cry from reporting -- that yesterday's minor test glitch is Big Deal Bad News, reporter John Hendron quoted Joseph Cirincione of "the Carnegie Foundation" (identified simply as a nonprofit foundation) and John Isaacs from The Council for a Livable World (identified as an arms control group).
The mis-identified "Carnegie Foundation" is actually the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Cirincione is a big-time Bush critic, who has criticized Bush policies with quotes like this: "It's unfortunately become all too typical of a kind of aggressive, even bullying, style the Bush administration has in trying to get international organisations to agree with their points of view." (here)
As for The Council for a Livable World, its current chairman is Julian Bond, and its Web site includes this entry under "Election 2004:"
Help with Election Protection Activities: People for the American Way. Protect voters rights in 2004 and beyond. "Election Protection" activities are being undertaken by many organizations. Largest coalition: People for the American Way ....
Where is the objectivity? Where is a quote from Frank Gaffney, or any other defense analyst who sees the benefit of protecting ourselves from the many easily identifiable nuclear risks we face (Russia, Iran and North Korea come to mind)? The LA Times dispensed with risk with a simple reference to "an era of tight budgets and a reduction in the threat of ballistic missile attacks on the United State...."
This article is another damning indictment of the lack of objectivity in MSM, and is a continuation of the LA Times' longstanding policy of quoting government sources and far-left sources only, and rarely if ever quoting conservative policy experts.
The story is about yesterday's failed test of the proposed missile defense system, an idea MSM have railed against ever since President Reagan proposed it. In making the case -- a far cry from reporting -- that yesterday's minor test glitch is Big Deal Bad News, reporter John Hendron quoted Joseph Cirincione of "the Carnegie Foundation" (identified simply as a nonprofit foundation) and John Isaacs from The Council for a Livable World (identified as an arms control group).
The mis-identified "Carnegie Foundation" is actually the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Cirincione is a big-time Bush critic, who has criticized Bush policies with quotes like this: "It's unfortunately become all too typical of a kind of aggressive, even bullying, style the Bush administration has in trying to get international organisations to agree with their points of view." (here)
As for The Council for a Livable World, its current chairman is Julian Bond, and its Web site includes this entry under "Election 2004:"
Help with Election Protection Activities: People for the American Way. Protect voters rights in 2004 and beyond. "Election Protection" activities are being undertaken by many organizations. Largest coalition: People for the American Way ....
Where is the objectivity? Where is a quote from Frank Gaffney, or any other defense analyst who sees the benefit of protecting ourselves from the many easily identifiable nuclear risks we face (Russia, Iran and North Korea come to mind)? The LA Times dispensed with risk with a simple reference to "an era of tight budgets and a reduction in the threat of ballistic missile attacks on the United State...."
This article is another damning indictment of the lack of objectivity in MSM, and is a continuation of the LA Times' longstanding policy of quoting government sources and far-left sources only, and rarely if ever quoting conservative policy experts.
posted by Laer at 10:01 AM
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