{"id":11200,"date":"2011-09-17T11:34:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T15:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11200"},"modified":"2011-09-17T11:34:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T15:34:24","slug":"rex-murphy-the-failure-of-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/09\/17\/rex-murphy-the-failure-of-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Rex Murphy: The failure of the media"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is not the kind of column you expect from a long-time CBC employee. It points out the huge failing of the major media in their reporting about President Barack Obama<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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As the bad economic news continues to emanate from the United States — with a double-dip recession now all but certain — a reckoning is overdue. American journalism will have to look back at the period starting with Barrack Obama\u2019s rise, his assumption of the presidency and his conduct in it to the present, and ask itself how it came to cast aside so many of its vital functions. In the main, the establishment American media abandoned its critical faculties during the Obama campaign — and it hasn\u2019t reclaimed them since.<\/p>\n

Much of the Obama coverage was orchestrated sycophancy. They glided past his pretensions — when did a presidential candidate before \u201caddress the world\u201d from the Brandenberg Gate in Berlin? They ignored his arrogance — \u201cYou\u2019re likeable enough, Hillary.\u201d And they averted their eyes from his every gaffe — such as the admission that he didn\u2019t speak \u201cAustrian.\u201d<\/p>\n

The media walked right past the decades-long association of Obama with the weird and racist pastor Jeremiah Wright. In the midst of the brief stormlet over the issue, one CNN host — inexplicably — decided that CNN was going to be a \u201cWright-free zone.\u201d He could have hung out a sign: \u201cNo bad news about Obama here.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

On the plus side, however, he did let us know that there were 57 states in the union (although I’m still not sure of the names of the hidden 7).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is not the kind of column you expect from a long-time CBC employee. It points out the huge failing of the major media in their reporting about President Barack Obama: As the bad economic news continues to emanate from the United States — with a double-dip recession now all but certain — a reckoning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,13],"tags":[158,477,213,101],"class_list":["post-11200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-barackobama","tag-magazines","tag-newspapers","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2UE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11201,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11200\/revisions\/11201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}