Does anyone know why in the hell MSM "journalists" have become such cowards?

[solara]

What do they think is going to happen to them if they ask perceptive and pertinent questions at a press conference or actually investigate and report on the criminal behavior of this administration? Why are they intimidated by the truth? I am sick of the RW spin and lies that are parroted every day in the MSM because of the weakness and pandering that infects these so -called "journalists". Obviously integrity has gone the way of personal responsibility, conscience and morality.


INVESTIGATE IMPEACH INDICT INCARCERATE :patriot:

[Demeter]

1. The White House Will Call Their Bosses and Get Them Canned

as has been shown to happen.

[southerncrone]

2. They are Paid-off Mouthpieces.

[TheConstantGardener]

3. Read Matt Taibbi's articles on the 2004 Primary

You will see that journalism has become yellow/tabloid journalism in this country because the journalists don't need integrity to operate their businesses anymore.

People following Dean's campaign were more worried about him screaming once than his healthcare plan or Iraq plan. Atrocious.

[Oceansaway]

4. .

perhaps they like 'living on their knees'...:shrug:

[lligrd]

5. That Is The Question Of The Decade

It is the question that has bothered me the most throughout this entire sordid affair (the Bush administration). If you can't count on the press to ask questions and investigate, how can you trust the information you are given? At least, we still have good old logic to depend on. Logic seems to have served many of us here well. Too bad a lot of Americans don't seem to be equipped with it.

[Bitwit1234]

6. Acutally those on TV are just newsreaders

All they do is read the news the network puts in front of them. They used to have journalist that went out in to the field and investigated but the news services like AP just post the news and they take it off the wire.

You do see some like Anderson Cooper go out into the field once in a while. And that woman Amaropour (or however you spell the name) who does go to Iraq and war zones. But not many do. And if they do they just file the canned stuff they are given.

[Subdivisions]

7. They gotta get paid. n/t

[madokie]

8. I say NSA and a little ole thing called blackmail

[ChicagoRonin]

9. Ask ABBA

"Money, money, money . . . "

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

10. Support Pacifica Radio, Air America Radio, FSTV, and LINK TV

There are sources of news out there that have no fear of this administration. It's up to us to help them grow in size and become a bigger part of the mainstream.

[TheConstantGardener]

14. AND the Real News

The Real News (google it) will be CNN-scale if we support it the right way.

[madrchsod]

11. become? they always were

well they used to be actual reporters/journalists but that was before the news organizations were bought by defense contractors,disney/saudi arabia,and other assorted crooks. the major newspapers caved in 2000

[solara]

12. If we did not have access to the internet, AAR, NPR & etc. we would be so totally 'screwn'

As it is, our nation may never recover from this disastrous administration. The powers that be in the MSM are just as culpable as the Bush administration and should be held to the same accountability and consequences.


INVESTIGATE IMPEACH INDICT INCARCERATE ALL OF THE BUSHCO BOZOS

:patriot:

P.S. I agree with you about supporting alternate news sources

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

13. They make too much money

and their profession has evolved into a sort of 'know all, see all' type.

[Clark2008]

19. No - the problem is that most of them DON'T make a much money.

The money is made by a small few, leaving the rest to either starve or leave the profession entirely because they don't make any money.

I was a journalist for 12 years and had to leave to support my kid. I made less money - a lot less - than a starting teacher after having worked in the profession, full time, for 10 years.

[Berry Cool]

15. Someone needs to start watching Keith Olbermann on MSNBC

Trust me, you'll feel better. He feeds the need for perceptive, pertinent questions five nights a week. No intimidation or newsreading there, but boatloads of integrity.

[solara]

24. I don't have cable but I read the transcripts of his show

I don't consider him MSM anyway he is way too honest

:hi:

[mnhtnbb]

16. They're bought. Corporate whores, not journalists.

[blondeatlast]

17. Don't dismiss laziness. It's too much trouble to pick up the phone for

another perspective or to verify something.

Instead, just get your stories from your daily e-mails from the tax-exempt Heritage Foundation's Press room.

Imagine if Woodstein had discovered Watergate today...

[Southsideirish]

22. Laziness and materialism. They want to live "well" - afraid to lose their jobs

-want to drive the bmr's, have their kids go to the best schools, dress well, live well, drink single malt scotch, etc. Makes you very timid when it comes to alienating the boss.

[Lasher]

28. Yep. That's pretty much it, Southsideirish

And a lot of it is about access. But that's pretty much a symptom of laziness and greed.

Of course, media consolodation has made it easier for rich rightwingers to control the media. And with the Fairness Doctrine now a part of ancient history, the journalists have actually become pundits.

Happy St. Patty's Day! :toast:

[JCMach1]

26. it's also cheaper to publish the spew that's given to you....

[Patsy Stone]

18. It's the vast left-wing conspiracy.

To quote Colbert, "Reality has a well known liberal bias."

[xchrom]

20. they are defenders of the status quo -- which is very different than having a political affiliation.

clinton's dick made him fair game our society -- bushco is the perfect example of the msm defends the ''system''.

lies, government wrong doing, illegal war all has to be framed in such a way to keep the staus quo ticking and to keep the people from making a major swing.

[TheConstantGardener]

21. They have no interest in going out and standing up for us

They just cover enough to get ratings high and money flowing in.

[xchrom]

23. in one sense yes. -- it's not that the reporters don't know what we know --

so why not report the facts?

if the media had done just what du had done during the 00 election -- or the run up to the war -- this would be a very differnt world we are sitting in.

it's not that they are members of the republick party -- though their corporate bosses certainly are -- it's that they defend america as they find it today -- with it's perks for insiders, fat checks, invitations to parties and inside circles, etc.

and btw the media KNOWS/KNEW much if not all what du knew in all of these cases.

[riverdeep]

25. Authority

Many of the answers given here are accurate, this is another piece of the puzzle. For better or worse (let's get real-worse), the republicans carry the mantle of authority better than the dems do for a large part of this nation. They use this mask to get away with heinous activity, and the reporters are just like anyone else when it comes to bowing down to authority. Anyone remember Stanley Milgram?

I recall a press conference with Condi where a reporter questioned her competance in not being aware of 9/11 when there were memo's stating Bin Laden ready to attack. She got an attitude of incredulousness. Like, how dare you even suggest such a thing? Don't you know who I am? The reporter backed off.

[leftofthedial]

27. money, pervasive culture of smug entitlement,

literal threats against their jobs, maybe even their lives