Journalism or Yellow Journalism?

I’ve been watching the local news lately, at least more than the weather, and noticed that they seem to be getting more involved in the left-wing political line. Specifically, on two occasions in the last three days this has been the case.

First, there was a report on someone who is dredging up that false report about the reinstatement of the draft. In case you’ve forgotten, during the election there was a big stink about President Bush starting up the draft again to support the war in Iraq. Big mouth Kerry was all over it of course until someone pointed out that the whole thing was started by a couple of dumbocrat congressmen. Then he shut his mouth awfully fast. Anyway, the local media was all over this woman because she’s started a campaign to force all congressmen and senators to sign on that they would not sponsor or vote for a bill to reinstate the draft. I say that is a bunch of bull as no one had even mentioned it except for her and the media.

The second report the following day was about how the US should have signed the Kyoto treaty on global warming. I noticed that they trotted out all the local envirowackos, as Rush calls them, to support that contention without a balancing statement from anyone who would disagree with that position. They also tended to gloss over the fact that both China and India have exemptions from any pollution they produce.

I keep wondering how these so called journalists can develop this mentality and then I remember that they went to Journalism School in college. Just what does Journalism School teach them except how to be good lefties? I always figured that anyone who could right a sentence grammatically and speak effectively could do those jobs. After all, if you listen to them read the news in the evenings whoever is doing their writing certainly can’t write grammatically! Just listen for the double negatives, misused words, and split infinitives are obvious.

I also get tired of hearing Nevada pronounced Nev-AH-dah when everyone knows it is pronounced Nev-a-DA. The same thing happened when I lived in Oregon. East coast news weenies always pronounced it Or-e-gaun when it’s pronounced Or-e-GUN. The thought always went through my head that it should be explained to them in term they might understand. Pronounce it Or-e-GUN or I’ll get a gun and blow your head off!

All of which brings me to another point. Just where do the UN and Europe get off telling us how to do things, that is until they need money then they seem to come calling fast enough. Even then they seem to feel that they can insult this country if they don’t get the amount they feel we should be handing them free and clear. Even the so called loans seem to lack any interest rate or repayment periods! A good example of this is the One Billion dollar loan the UN wants the US to provide so they can remodel the New York offices. Our taxpayer dollars go to them as a no interest, no repayment period loan that they will expect our government to provide the funds to repay whenever they feel like it. How much longer do they expect the taxpayers of this country to put up with that kind of treatment?

WAKE UP AMERICA! Tell your congressmen and senators to cut the UN funds altogether. Better yet get us out of the UN totally! Also, boycott local and national news broadcasts and inform the stations why you are doing this. I’m still boycotting CBS and its local affiliate since Dan Rather has not apologized properly for the obvious attempt to swing the election with that false report on President Bush’s National Guard service.