The Journolist computer network was created by Ezra Klein to be a private clubhouse for several hundred liberal journalists, like-minded professors and activists.
• All members sing from the same hymnal.
• They are group-think oriented. (they can't think for themselves?)
• They coordinate their activities to drive the news.
• They inculcate a philosophy that encourages members to think the same about certain people, certain issues.
• They don't debate, but rather assign labels to define and malign entire groups.
• They are an agenda-driven political movement.
• They are overwhelmingly liberal.
• They are a propaganda arm of the Democrat party.
• They have gotten away with fooling their audience into believing they are objective reporters and journalists.
• Thanks to the JournoList scandal, they are exposed as biased and dishonest.
The American people do not trust the "mainstream" media and the JournoList scandal validates their distrust.
Breaking the story was The Daily Caller, a Web-based news site. Below are links to just a few of the articles that have already been posted on the JournoList scandal. I'm sure more will come. I pulled out a few excerpts for your reading pleasure...
Documents show media plotting to kill stories about Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Jeremiah Wright was back in the news after making a series of media appearances. At the National Press Club, Wright claimed Obama had only repudiated his beliefs for “political reasons.” Wright also reiterated his charge that the U.S. federal government had created AIDS as a means of committing genocide against African Americans. It was another crisis, and members of Journolist again rose to help Obama...
JournoList and the MSM Template: Minimize, Marginalize, and Drop It Down the Memory Hole. [T]he (publicly) unspoken strategy of the MSM mandarins is to support and protect their liberal/left favorite politicians and policies. The minimize-marginalize-memory hole template only works when no one is looking for it. And it only works when all of the pieces work – when one fails, the template falls apart. You can marginalize the storytellers and drop it down the memory hole, but a story like ACORN’s taxpayer-assisted child sex advice simply cannot be minimized. ACORN ended up defunded. You can lie about “N-word” shouting tea partiers all you want, but when they won’t accept marginalization you can’t be marginalized. And all of us can help drag important stories out of the memory hole – on sites like the “Bigs” and others, through talk radio, through fair and balanced news outlets, and through social media like Facebook and Twitter. Understanding the template is the first step to smashing it. Refuse to allow important stories to be minimized – fight back. Refuse to acquiesce to being marginalized – fight back. And refuse to allow important stories about our country be tucked away in the media memory hole – fight back.
Journolist excerpts are a crime scene. The gun is smoking alright, but there before our very eyes, also lies the corpse of feigned objectivity, dead from a self-inflicted wound. Its heart may still be beating, but it’s fading fast. The guilty party’s attempts at pre-emptive damage control reek of desperation. ...something is beginning to stink. It’s the corpse of the mainstream media — decomposing on the front page of The Daily Caller...
Journalists are dishonorable losers. The Journolist was an Internet community of journalists who reinforced each other’s liberal bias and plotted strategies for ensuring the most favorable coverage for the Obama administration. The scandal has revealed again – as if more evidence was needed – that the American media is liberal. But the deeper tragedy involves the self-termination of conscience evident in the Journolists’ boosterism. The real sorrow is the total absence of conscience, and of honor. Honor and conscience. They are what make you give a fair and honest quote to a source you may not like.
Journolist legitimizes corrupt media claims. When news first broke that The Daily Caller had obtained documents and other such evidence asserting that a left-wing journalist listserv had plotted to cover up controversial stories revolving around then candidate Barack Obama’s pastor, as well conspire to destroy the lives of anyone who opposes their agenda, most Americans probably shrugged it off realizing this is simply old news. Not only is this kind of journalism bad for business, it is more importantly dangerous for democracy, not because these so-called journalists harbor far-left views, but because they knowingly and unashamedly bury stories that will hurt public figures who share the same beliefs. Modern journalism in our country today takes a backseat to what was once referred to as a business of integrity. In fact, it ranks up there around that annoying piece of toilet paper stuck to your shoe as you leave the public restroom. In order to get a better picture of the exact level of hatred and disgust American journalists have climbed too, I find myself reflecting back on a very powerful statement a former colleague of mine once said. “Liberalism is not taught in journalism school, it is expected.”
The Manchurian Listserv. In a standard that works rather conveniently for liberals, and has been embraced by much of the media during the post-Obama Tea Party era, white conservatives and their allies are considered racists for merely being white conservatives. No video evidence is necessary to condemn, and no number of repuditations is sufficient to clear conservatives of this taint. On the other hand, when black leaders and liberal allies are caught on tape being racist or hateful, as in the case of Wright, Jones, the New Black Panthers, or NAACP leaders, it is also racist to point out that racism. ... I think we’re finally getting to a point where the overuse of the “racism” charge since Barack Obama became president has weakened its sting. This story should weaken it further, as it reveals how comfortable some of our most passionate racism watchdogs are with sowing racial discord for partisan advantage. ...[J]ust as the JournoList is McCarthyism through a fun-house mirror, it’s also an inversion of the story that almost single-handedly (albeit with a lot of help from Hollywood) created the 1970s-1980s-era incarnation of the crusading, muckraking political journalist. And they’ve already demonstrated that they’re willing to squelch any story, or terminate with extreme prejudice any competing narrative to advance the president’s career...
Rules for racists. A textbook tactic of statist radicals in America is the systematic character assassination of their enemies as racists. Loathe to engage their intellectual opponents in a real discussion of the issues, lest the radicals should be perceived for what they are and lose the fight to bring America under their heel, they prefer instead to slander their opponents, to intimidate and shout them down, and to destroy their credibility with whatever lies or twisted propaganda they can muster in a never-ending witch-hunt. Old Saul Alinsky would have been proud. For Alinskyite radicals you see, racism is not the issue. They don’t actually care about or mind racism, especially not when it comes from or threatens to undo one of their own. Racism isn’t something to stamp out and move past for them; it’s a weapon to bludgeon anybody who stands in their way on the march to power. The Alinskyites have done a swell job of infiltrating and radicalizing the media as a weapon and propaganda tool to subvert the truth, obstruct an open debate, and destroy anyone who dares to show them for what they are; and the false allegation of racism is just one of their many weapons of subversion. But while the Old Media sweeps these examples of genuine racism under the rug, you will hear the truth from bloggers and independent journalists all over the World Wide Web.
Added July 25:
Will wonders never cease! JournoLister Matthew Yglesias INSISTS if the Left does it, so does the Right. He DEMANDS the Right give up their secret listservs! But there is ZERO evidence to support his accusations.
"The fact of the matter is, of course, that the Journolisters are left-wing political activists masquerading as journalists."
AMEN!
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