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No, I don’t want snarky post-Palin speech journalists “fired”
Since Friday night’s Palin speech at CSU-Stanislaus, which saw an open-mic incident take center stage with mainstream media journalists being clearly heard slamming Sarah Palin post-speech, apparently I’ve left some people with the impression that I want the journalists involved “fired.” That’s not the case.
In the immediate aftermath, and the day after, my first thought once I decided that I believed Fox40 journalists weren’t involved was that I wanted to know which journalists uttered the remarks, but not because I wanted to see them let go. It was more out of curiosity than anything else. But after sleeping on it, I came to the conclusion that “outing” the journalists wouldn’t be necessary. As I explained tonight on Twitter, my main issue is wanting to make sure people hear the remarks so they will know without a doubt that the claim that conservatives make about journalists “being biased” against then isn’t without merit. Of course, there are many journalists already on record as admitting to the liberal bias of the mainstream media, but to hear such raw comments – even though they were supposed to be “off the record” – provides the purest evidence to date of just how the mainstream media views conservatives, which is to say, almost like alien creatures.
I’m glad to see that Fox News, the LA Times Top of the Ticket blog, and other MSM outlets picked up on this story. Of course, along with it came coverage from less reliable sources like Media Matters and, ugh, The View – where the usual Joy Behar bloviating took center stage, but you have to take the good with the bad, I guess.
Fox40 continues to impress with how they are staying on top of it and trying to narrow down who was and was not in the media room for the Palin speech. From their Twitter feed:
FOX40 NEWS: CSU Stanislaus says LA Times, AP, Mod Bee, TV reporters were not in media room when open mic situation happened at Palin event.
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FOX40 NEWS: CSU Stanislaus media PIO suggests AV tech staff, print reporters were behind comments heard on open mic after Palin event.
RadioMatthew, who works for FOX40, also tweeted this to me, after I asked if the station was still getting a lot of feedback:
More than you can imagine. People still believe we’re involved.
Hopefully we can disprove that though. Started requesting credential info for all reporters at the event from the school.
Well, as I’ve already noted, the consistent explanation FOX40 has given about what happened and their proactive approach in the aftermath of the post-speech comments just earns them more credibility in my eyes. I hope they continue their research into what happened, and that the angry calls soon come to a halt. I can understand the anger; I just believe it is being taken out on the wrong people.
The mainstream media are allowed to have personal opinions on politics. That is not the issue. The issue is when those opinions are reflected in what is supposed to be objective reporting. There were numerous voices on that audio feed making disdainful remarks about Sarah Palin. Were their biases, in turn, reflected in their post-speech “reporting”? My money is on “yes.”
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Agree, “outing” the journalists isn’t necessary. So long as it taints them all.
Everything the press reports must be taken with a healthy dose of scepticism, even Fox.
If it walks, talks, and acts like a duck then clearly it is a duck. Clearly the greater message here is that Sarah Palin’s intellect, credibility, articulating skill, media savvyness, material, and rhetoric fail to measure up to the seasoned politician speaker fees she charges. Stop illluding the facts.
So in your grand scheme of things Danny boy the press is right to denigrate and malign as long as they don’t get caught, right? They don’t have to present salient facts to back up their premises? They don’t have to do the careful background information and present information for the reader to make a sound opinion…they are the arbiters of what gets reported and how it is to be assimilated by the masses? Sounds a bit like Pravda to me. The liberal press used to be a cynical, now it’s become maniacal. The want to take down anyone who gets in the way of their leftist agenda. Beware what you read..NYT has already been caught is more lies than I can ever remember and their reports are not beneath twisting facts.
The fact that Sarah Parlin was at the university to raise money…and set a record I believe, was overlooked by the louts who were badmouthing Sarah…ouch. I don’t see them badmouthing Whoopi Goldberg when she gives a speech on campus…what degree does she have?
The irony of slamming Palin while using a nonsense word such as “illuding” when it is more apropos to use “eliding” (although, I’d like to know what, exactly, was elided) probably escapes those who don’t have the intellectual heft of a dougnut.
Daniel, if what you say is true, then the market would not bear the fees. It clearly does all over the country, so you are wrong.
You are also wrong in that Palin has representation from the Washington Speaker’s Bureau, and they negotiate the contracts and fees, not her.
If she were such an obvious failure at all the things you insist, then they would not bother, yet they do. She can draw several hundred to a fundraiser banquet at hundreds per head, and she can draw several thousand to an arena, as she has done many times over, and will continue to do.
She is a force in our nation today, and just because you don’t like it doesn’t make it not true.
Haha Danny! You ARE ignorant. The story about the snarking support no such conclusion; it merely shows that the journalists BELIEVE your assertion so much that they cannot possibly report truthfully.
In fact, what it also reveals is the journalist’s own ignorance (“I didn’t understand her speech at all!”, one says….incredible. it wasn’t THAT complicated people) and their inability to objectively hear words and report.
But thanks, Danny, for the confirmation!
I’m a first time visitor by the way, and I think this is a nice looking blog.
You are hearby bookmarked.
I shall return!
I always like to read Sarah Palin links because in the comment section there is always some Palin haters who whine, bitch, and moan about her intellect and speaking fees. True to form, Daniel does not disappoint. Of course this person clearly doesn’t have a clue what “illuding” means, but somehow in his tiny little world he thinks he is qualified to judge people on their intellect. It is sometimes laughable, but always pathetic.
Not to mention VERY entertaining.
I say FIRE ‘EM ALL !!
Beautiful catch, Frumious.
I’m sure Daniel knows in his own mind he is absolutely correct because, amongst all his intellectual friends there’s not one that disagrees with what he says. It’s only out here in the extremely vapid intellectual hinterlands one could possibly believe Sarah might have something useful to say.
Says a lot about your intellectual capacity (or incapacity, as the case may be), Daniel.
Gov. Sarah Palin provides the lamestream press and its Orwellian-sheep followers their daily two-minutes hate. Old news. The new news is: She will speak in Atlanta tonight for the benefit of special needs children. No controversy, no politics.
And, I imagine, no speaking fees? Good on her if she’s there gratis.
The fly in the liberal ointment is that they don’t have as stellar a speaker to counter Sarah’s current popularity. Any idea who gets the most money to speak in front of liberal audiences?
Heavens above, if they are so worried about speaker fees, why are there agencies that provide keynote speakers for a fee? I guess, that just too free enterprise for them!!! Any one wanna bet they are lawyers, too????