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[LATimes] Why are the rules of journalism being rewritten this election year? Because that's what you do every four years, that's why...
My local newspaper, the Sonoma County Press-Democrat, is so clearly in the tank for Hillary Clinton that I no longer take pleasure in my morning read. Trump’s acceptance speech, for example, was covered on the front page with two stories: on the left a straight, albeit somewhat judgmental, account of the speech, and on the right a “fact check” that disputed every point made by the GOP nominee. Clinton’s speech was covered with three front page stories, with headlines describing her nomination as “historic,” “inspiring” and “trailblazing.” A relatively mild fact-checking piece was relegated to the back pages.
This transparent bias is a national phenomenon, infecting both print and television media to such an extent that it has become almost impossible to separate coverage of the Trump campaign from attempts to tear it down. The media has long been accused of having a liberal slant, but in this cycle journalists seem to have cast themselves as defenders of the republic against what they see as a major threat, and in playing this role they’ve lost the ability to assess events rationally. Much more at the link
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I read the book, copyrighted in 2002: Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News Paperback
by Bernard Goldberg, One-time Producer to Dan Rather, in the early days.
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Wasn't there another book, titled something like "Knob-Gobbling Love Affair"?
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Honestly, any deeper in the tank for Hillary, they'd need a deep-sea-divers' helmet and someone pumping them oxygen from a support boat up on the surface.
On the good side - it's so obvious now that the mainstream establishment press is loosing all credibility with ordinary Americans.
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CNN is jumping the shark with their anti-Trump reporting. Ya kind of expect it from MSNBC and NBC, but CNN has some kind of derangement going on, the screeching and self righteous indignation weirds people out.
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So far in the tank, it is call Flush Valve Reporting.
But they aren't really journalists, and it isn't really reporting, now is it?
If CNN is, then Fox is loathsome. Wife tried watching the other day, said it was some bad combination of Nick Jr. and Bad Girls Club. Rolling their eyes even when saying not-bad things.
I found CNNs RNC coverage better than Fox.
How bad? Well, she finally asked me who this Khan fellow is. Asked me.
Now, love my wife, she is wonderful, but she only wants an outline of the day's events. Lost her with the junior high girls' locker room talk.
Something about 30 minutes of bashing Trump over this fellow, absolutely no info about Khan. "At least Bad Girls Club gives both sides of a fight." She says. (I know, her deal, but ouch)
[Daily Caller] If Hillary Clinton’s 20 biggest political donors this election cycle pooled all of their wealth together, they could cover the taxpayer-funded portion of Planned Parenthood’s budget for the next 120 years, a Daily Caller analysis finds.
That same small group of donors, who are worth $64.5 billion together, could cover Planned Parenthood’s entire $1.3 billion annual budget -- which depends on revenue from grants, service fees, and private donations -- for the next half century. And body parts, don't neglect the parts.
But don’t look for the billionaire Clinton supporters to start covering the $550 million in taxpayer dollars given to Planned Parenthood each year anytime soon. Democrats -- who are the main recipients of Planned Parenthood campaign contributions -- have resisted Republican proposals to ban federal funds from going to the group, which performed 323,999 abortions in its most recent fiscal year (nearly half of all abortions performed last year). Have we stumbled upon the true political goal ? The secondary goal of PP is abortion...
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Most likely his speech was scripted and dictated by Clinton and the DNC. I wonder if Khan has read the Constitution; obviously he doesn't believe it is the law of this country--he is in appropriate company with the rest of the Donks. Obama has tried to circumvent the Constitution for 8 years or more. Hilda doesn't give a hoot about the law either.
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Muslims should not be allowed in the U.S. for not recognizing Constitutional rights of others. He just made that clear.
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The Democrats are attempting to personalize a destabilizing refugee/immigration system with the Con. Mr. Trump is dead on with not allowing any refugees from the war zone.
Fact - The vetting process is non-existent. The first 25,000 Iraqi refugees were allowed in without ANY vetting...killers that attacked US troops were included. State did not and still does not check against any of the DoD detention records or derog intel on the candidates for refugee status because that slows the process and limits numbers. And bad things were the result - Terrorism cases against Iraqis in this first 25,000 were made in Kentucky and North Carolina.
Think about this - intel and biometric data from the battlefield is not considered...this should be the first data looked vetted and is readily available.
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I carry around a copy of the US Constitution. The days my children were born, I would open it to a random page and name the child after the passage. I swear, little Article III will argue about anything.
[DAWN] IT is never a pretty sight when the apparatus of law enforcement and justice fails to protect vulnerable members of society, but it is particularly disturbing when it fails in the case of children.
The kidnapping of children, with the intention to sell them into forced labour, has been an ongoing concern in Pakistain for many years now, with reported cases reaching the hundreds almost half a decade ago.
But in 2016 this figure has reached 767 in Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... alone, with five months still to go in the year. The only reason we even have the figures at this point is because of the Supreme Court.
The rising number shows that the phenomenon of abducting children and selling them into forced labour has entrenched itself into a sizable racket while law enforcement officials have failed to mount any kind of vigorous effort to halt the crime. There can be no excuse for this failure.
Yet time and again, whether in the context of the recently unearthed cases of child abduction and sale into slavery, or last year’s example of the Kasur child abuse ring, Punjab’s law minister Rana Sanaullah has sought to invoke details that serve to deflect blame away from the provincial government’s law enforcement agencies, and has tried to place the facts in a context that muddy the government’s response rather than clarifying it.
Last year he tried to argue those involved in the Kasur child abuse ring were members of a close-knit community and their disputes with each other over land and other issues were the key driving force behind the abuse.
This time, he is quoted saying that parents of the kidnapped children have the primary responsibility in not letting their children play in the streets and keeping them under close watch.
Additionally, Mr Sanaullah and members of the provincial police force are also quick to point out that the rackets are based in other provinces, and quite likely run by demobilised members of Lion of Islam outfits.
It would be better if they were equally quick to concede that multiple crimes are committed when someone abducts a child and sells him or her onwards.
Apprehending such people, along with their controllers and clients who ’purchase’ these unfortunate children, is the number one priority for the government that the minister belongs to.
On Monday, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... ordered the setting up of a task force on missing children. Yet there is little introspection on the improvements required in his police forces to apprehend the perpetrators.
The relationship that the police has with local communities is key to this, as is technology to build a database of those charged with crimes against children. If the police had been taking its responsibility more seriously, we would not have seen the growth of this heinous racket to such enormous proportions.
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[DAWN] THE outcry over the death of Qandeel Baloch had just barely died down, the follow-ups to the murder, its special treatment, the arrest of the brother, the statements by solemn-faced politicians just barely wrapped up, when new episodes of horror took their place. On July 26, news broke that a British member of parliament had written to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... regarding the murder of Samia Shahid, a British woman who had been duped into visiting Pakistain and was now dead. Her husband, Syed Mukhtar Kazam, who is in Britannia, was alleging that Samia had been killed by her family because she had divorced the man whom they had chosen for her and married him instead.
The facts, even as they span two continents and communities seemingly separated by great distances, are not new. Samia Shahid, part of Britannia’s Pak community, had been engaged when she was young to a relative belonging to the same clan and village. Despite her own opposition to the marriage, she acquiesced to her family’s wishes and married the man. As she was a British citizen, her husband was able to travel to the UK. Samia eventually filed for divorce from this person.
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Humm... There's an old saying, Choose your mate, choose your fate.
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[DAWN] THE outcry over the death of Qandeel Baloch had just barely died down, the follow-ups to the murder, its special treatment, the arrest of the brother, the statements by solemn-faced politicians just barely wrapped up, when new episodes of horror took their place. On July 26, news broke that a British member of parliament had written to Prime Minister 
