Why I Don't Trust The Mainstream Media

Before the 2008 election I noticed suddenly there were no reports about Obama in the mainstream news.  While the press was ruthlessly attacking Sarah Palin and even making up lies about her, there was nothing being said about Obama.  Even though the man had a Muslim name and Muslims had just recently flown airplanes into buidings killing Americans!  No questions about him, no articles saying anything at all about his history.  No articles of journalistic investigation were being published anywhere!  No mention of the similarity between his name and Osama bin Laden's name!  Everytime I saw the Obama/Biden bumper stickers I was reminded of Osama bin Laden!  I couldn't understand why this man Obama was not triggering good old fashioned Investigative Journalism! Nothing!

As a journalism student I  arrived at the unpleasant fact that the news media no longer engage in reporting the news, still clinging to the belief that journalism still held to the ethics of journalism I'd learned in college and believing there was still honesty in the press. I finally accepted the fact that writers in sources like the NYT leaned Left, and the NY Post leaned mostly Right, and I began reading AP releases and the like, but then realized even they were  slanted and editorializing.   As a result, I began searching for foreign sources, such as the Guardian and the Telegraph from the UK, AFP, Pravda, and Al Arabia. Though they're often anti-American, they also jump on the phony reporting, and serve as a pinnochio testing meter for the US mainstream media as well as the Obama administration.

So far as trusting the television news reporting, it is just more slanted and cannot be relied upon.  It has become nothing more than opinions put forth by people masquerading as "news" reporters. Granted a lot of the news we learn online in opinion articles is also slanted but there if one is searching for truth it is always possible to look for confirmation. 

American journalism students have been learning from Socialist/Communist instructors. There is no way to get around this fact.  I noticed this in the early 60's.  I hoped they were few and far between but it became more and more obvious they were taking over the educational system. 

The New Media, lead by Andrew Breitbart and continuing in his memory is taking up the slack for reporting news honestly and accurately and according to the standards we learned in school.  Let's see that we continue reporting the Truth.