Welcome ladies and gentleman to the newest online game show sweeping the nation called “What’s the Headline?” where viewers at home read four quotes from celebrities, notables, and politicians and see which one the mainstream media deems worthy of being called a scandal, appear above the fold for days on end, and lead all the news shows.
If you think you know journalism, you don’t.
Each contestant has five seconds to peruse these four quotes at your leisure and tell me which of these should be front page above the fold screaming headlines for days and days.
President Obama’s “science czar,” John Holdren:
Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.
Now, if you thought that was worth a few blaring headlines you’d be…….WRONG!!!! That quote was all but ignored the mainstream media because they said it was from decades ago. Sorry. Sorry.
Next up we have this allegedly incendiary quote from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg:
Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion.
Well…is it a headline or isn’t it? Three seconds…Well, if you thought this quote from one of the most powerful people in the country essentially shrugging her shoulders at the thought of eugenics you’d be…WRONG AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Next up we have the always entertaining and verbose “Green Jobs” Czar Van Jones:
“I met all these young radical people of color – I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, ‘This is what I need to be a part of.’ I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary.”
So we have a White House advisor telling us he modeled himself after communist revolutionaries. Think that’s worthy of a headline. If you think so you’d be…..WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now this last quote is from gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonell:
Further expenditures would be used to subsidize a dynamic new trend of working women and feminists that is ultimately detrimental to the family by entrenching a status quo of non-parental primary nurture of children.
So do you think McDonell saying that perhaps children are better off staying home with a parent full time rather than an institutionalized setting is worthy of blaring headlines above the fold for days straight? Well if you thought this is worthy of being called a political scandal you’d be……CORRECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow! Another great game of “What’s the Headline?” See, the trick is always to know who the Republican is. And remember the motto of the media is “Democrats don’t get bad press!”
Now, don’t forget to tune in next for “Who Will the Media Believe? Levi Johnston or Sarah Palin?”
September 4, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Let us not assume that the mainstream media has any sense of objectivity or, for that matter, intelligence whether cognitive or native. It's a massive shill operation and generally quite worthless. Which is pretty much why the print media is in death throes and the electronic media suffers from Fox's lead on almost everything.
September 4, 2009 at 3:40 pm
It's not the bias that bothers me. Heck, if the journalist has a shrine to Obama in his closet, so be it. Have all the bias you want! It's the pathological inability to be journalistically fair.
September 4, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Leave aside for the moment the fact that the "scandalous" remark is absolutely true–that allowing day car providers to raise our kids has been detrimental to our kids' character development and to the family in general.
I know mothers who have to put their kids in daycare while they work their part-time or full-time jobs. They consider day care a necessary evil, at best, but, in their financial situation, they don't see a way out of it, at least for the time being. Still, that doesn't change the fact that kids are better off when they have a parent at home with them–and moms are specially designed for that.
My husband has often wished I could find a job to supplement his income, but he's also admitted to his co-workers and others that he's glad I'm home with the kids, since he doesn't like the idea of putting our kids in day-care any more than I do.
I lost respect for the MSM a long time ago. When the local paper called recently to try to pressure me into expanding our gift subscription (my in-laws subscribed to the Sunday edition for us for the coupons), I told him straight out, when he asked me why I wasn't interested, that we get most of our news from the internet and news sources that we trust (his own not included). I finally had to tell him to just take no for an answer and have a nice day, but he did his best to weasel me into buying more issues. I've since heard that this paper is in danger of tanking. My condolences go to whomever else has to deal with the paper's desperate (and pushy) telemarketers. The coupons and the comics are the only reason the Sunday issue doesn't go directly into the recycling bin.