What’s Wrong with the Media?
Bobby Kennedy once had Martin Luther King wire tapped. To rephrase: the Attorney General, brother to the President, had a civil rights leader bugged. The media did not particularly care. The Kennedy administration executed the Bay of Pigs invasion—arguably an act of war without the consent of congress that ended tragically and with Castro more powerful than before. The media did not particularly care. Kennedy, and later Johnson, involved the US in a war in Vietnam. The media, at the time, did not particularly care. Some men working for Richard Nixon broke into a campaign headquarters for some reason known or unknown. Richard Nixon did not approve of the operation, much less know about it at the time. Later he did try to cover it up out of loyalty to his men. The media did care, and ultimately drove him out of office.
The media again and again says that regardless of the legality of the leaks and information that came out, and regardless of whether or not Nixon should have been held responsible for a burglary that he did not approve of or was even aware of for some time, that getting rid of him was good because he was a ‘bad’ person. Kennedy was barely elected into office and there is considerable evidence that the election was fraught with fraud in his favor. Johnson was elected mainly because the country did not want the trauma of three presidents in three years. Nixon was reelected with a 49 state landslide—apparently a majority of Americans did not think of him as a bad person after he had been their President for his first term. The problem was that while the media was enamored with Camelot and indulgent with Johnson’s Great Society, the media had hated Nixon since the Alger Hiss spy case. Nixon reigned in the power of the FBI—something that no President had the guts to do since the creation of the modern FBI in the Herbert Hoover administration—by breaking Hoover’s lineage, and this was his payback. Never mind that the FBI could have dished the dirt on Nixon’s two predecessors as well. So, the man who got America out of Vietnam, started the EPA and OSHA, opened dialogue with China, warmed relations with the USSR, and reigned in the FBI had to go, because he was a ‘bad’ person. He was bad, you see, and the yokels and yahoos in the 49 states needed to be overridden and to do so he had to be held to a much higher standard than his two predecessors ever were.
That is the problem with the media. Reporting facts--all of them--is not important to them. What matters to them is that their reporting herds the sheep into the correct direction. People who become reporters do so to influence the public, not to inform them; and that attracts a certain ends-justifies-the-means mindset that is uniformly liberal-secularist.