ASSociated Press: Drops "illegal immigrant" from Style Book

It's clear that the "appallingly pathetic" Associated Press "news" gathering organization has sunk to a new low on what is considered the truth in journalism. The asinine logic and explanation from the  Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll can be read here. Here are some of the money quotes:

"The Stylebook no longer sanctions the term “illegal immigrant” or the use of “illegal” to describe a person. Instead, it tells users that “illegal” should describe only an action, such as living in or immigrating to a country illegally."

By the same logic a "rapist" should be known as a person who enters a vagina without authorization. Perhaps a burglar or home invader should be called an  unauthorized house guest.   George Orwell must be spinning in his grave over this pathetic attempt at political correctness expressed by this so called "news" organization. 

Even Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is not dumb enough to believe this nonsense from AP:


"Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told reporters last week that she didn’t ”really get caught up in the vocabulary wars.”

“They are immigrants who are here illegally, that’s an illegal immigrant,” she said." - WAPO

Though Jay Leno may have the real explanation for this Orwellian slight of hand made by the ASSociated Press for this change. 

BTW you can let the AP how you feel about this here: stylebook@ap.orgstylebook@ap.org

NBC HAS ANOTHER EDITGATE MOMENT TO EXPLAIN

Just another example of why people no longer trust the dying mainstream liberal media in the U.S. The latest outrage once again comes from NBC which should have learned from it's past mistakes or was it a deliberate bias?  This latest editing outrage seems to be a deliberate attempt by people at MSNBC to distort the facts and harm the Romney campaign. From the clip it appears that Mika Brezinski seems to have had a hand in this duplicity as she is the one who pushed the clip to be played. Then she tries to stifle her laugh afterward. Did she know she was putting one over on clueless Joe Scarbourgh? What was her influence behind the scenes inquiring minds want to know? Here is the doctored edited clip as shown on MSNBC and following that the facts as to what really happened at the event:


Some people need to be fired over this deliberate falsification of the facts. Maybe they should start with Mika Brezenski and the producers and the editors who pushed this distortion on the air! Then go after MSNBC exec Phil Griffen who seems to tolerate the distortion and lies.

BLOG UPDATE:
Even the liberal leaning New York Times reports what actually took place at the Dayton Romney/Ryan rally:

"After Mr. Ryan whooped up the crowd in Vandalia on Tuesday, Mr. Romney moved to the front of the stage. As the crowd began chanting “Romney! Romney!” he cut them off. “Wait a second,” Mr. Romney said, instructing the audience to cheer for 'Romney-Ryan! Romney-Ryan!' They did," the Times reported.- Examiner

It's pretty clear heads need to roll at MSNBC if NBC NEWS wants to salvage any credibility that remains that they really are still a "news" organization and not a part of the Obama campaign's propaganda tactics.  

OOPS! A little truth about the liberal media comes out.

"I think the press still likes this story a lot, the media is very susceptible to doing what the Obama campaign wants, which is to focus on this," said Halperin." -WEEKLY STANDARD

A little truth from Halperin about the bias inside the echo chamber of the mainstream liberal media. Though I and I'm sure others have known this for awhile now. Which is why the mainstream old media is becoming increasingly irrelevant.  

WHAT HAPPENED AND IS HAPPENING AT THE CALHOUN NUCLEAR PLANT?

"The plant is still dry," "Everything is still safe."-Mike Jones, Senior Media Specialist 

Hmmm, not exactly reassuring. But, it's what you would expect from the PR person from the Omaha Public Power District. But, is the Obama administration being "transparent" with what is actually happening at the flooded nuclear plant?  The photo above is not reassuring either. Here is another take:

"A shocking report prepared by Russia’s Federal Atomic Energy Agency (FAAE) on information provided to them by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) states that the Obama regime has ordered a “total and complete” news blackout relating to any information regarding the near catastrophic meltdown of the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant located in Nebraska.



According to this report, the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant suffered a “catastrophic loss of cooling” to one of its idle spent fuel rod pools on 7 June after this plant was deluged with water caused by the historic flooding of the Missouri River which resulted in a fire causing the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) to issue a “no-fly ban” over the area." -The Nation

While I am also skeptical of what the Russians might say about many things going on here in the U.S.A. The U.S. media seems to be very uncurious about what's going on at the Calhoun plant too. Especially since the disaster that happened in Fukishima Japan was caused by water. Oh well! Now back to the U.S. media coverage of Ms. Obama and "the girls" in South Africa.

 

Out of Africa and back to a news Obamanation.

We arrived back in Washington D.C. on Saturday after three weeks in Africa. I was out of the "news" loop and away from the MSM for most of the time. Though we did hear of Obama's pick for the Supreme Court from a Brit at bar in Mozambique. Other than that it was pretty much safari's, staring at Victoria Falls, African sunsets or snorkeling on a reef off of Mozambique. So it was with some anticipation that I turned on CNN to see what the important news of the day after a virtual three week news blackout. CNN deemed it wise to use it's news gathering resources and airtime to cover "live" President Obama's motorcade turning onto 46th street to go see a play in New York. This is still what passes for "news" with MSM outlets like CNN. Sad.

Mainstream media gets it wrong. Again!

Howard Kurtz in today's Washington Post has a look at how the mainstream press is got it wrong in new Hampshire. Mu take is that the mainstream media and the campaigns still do not realize that they are losing control of the rudder of the political ship. Bloggers have taken over the engine room. While the pundents continue to talk among themselves and reinforce their own views. That's why they are getting it wrong more and more.

Can black journalists be unbiased in reporting?

I listened to Juan Williams on NPR's Morning Addition last Thursday. It was an interesting piece that asked the question if a black journalist should be unbiased when reporting on the black community and it's leaders. The answer appears to be no and after listening to the piece again it seems to justify advocacy and omission as acceptable journalistic principles for "black" journalists. Looks like it's another step backward for truth and integrity in journalism.

Lou Dobbs is right! Again!

CNN's Lou Dobbs had a commentary about how most of the maintream media is covering the illegal immigration issue:
"And the mainstream media are complicit in advancing this thinly veiled blanket amnesty. Instead of asking and answering important questions about why our immigration laws aren't being enforced and why we're permitting pervasive document fraud, the national media seem hell-bent on trying to obfuscate the issue, shamelessly playing with language, equating legal immigration with illegal immigration while obviously trying to preserve the illusion of objectivity."- Lou Dobbs

The You Tube footage of a cameraman for KPRC an NBC affiliate seems to bear that out. You have to wonder what kind of newsroom ethics and feelings about illegal immigration occur in the Newsroom of stations like KPRC that allow a news gathering cameraman to feel that it ok to fly the flag of another country like Mexico while covering a demonstration on illegal immigration. It should make the American public wonder that perhaps as Lou Dobbs points out that they may not be giving us the whole story.

NBC affiliate flies the Mexican flag and it's bias in news,

Those of us who have been watching the illegal immigration issue closely are very familiar with the bias of mainstream media outlets like Newsday, Washington Post and other news organizations in covering or not covering illegal immigration issue. But, the KPRC the NBC affiliate in Houston went over the top when a cameraman and reporter for the station flew a Mexican flag from the top of his camera while covering a demonstrations about illegal immigration a few days ago. It's just another reason why you should not get all your news from the mainstream corporate media. So much for ethics in journalism.

See the video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEqV5zaVCbY