The apparently leftist publisher of The Miami Herald has resigned after receiving heat from readers over his decision to fire some reporters of its sister Spanish-language publication for accepting money from the government to provide commentary for anti-Castro broadcasts.  Good riddance.

Why is it that leftist journalists (and editors and publishers) can act as the propaganda wing for the Democrat cut-and-runners by reporting only the anti-U.S. side of the story and refusing to cover pro-American, pro-Bush Administration stories, but the minute a conservative, anti-Communist reporter makes his views known it is a scandal or unethical or not up to journalistic "standards".

Remember after 9/11 when certain TV news executives at the major networks (and even at FOX) told reporters they couldn't wear American flag lapel pins on the air?  Well, the FOX boys said, "screw you, we're Americans first," but the rest of the pro-terrorist media promptly removed their flags.  They are hardly Americans anyway.  They consider themselves citizens of the world, I guess, even though no other country has the press freedom ours does. 

Well, I am an American first.  Everything else, including my profession with a multinational corporation, comes second or further down the list.  Journalists think they are something special, but to me, the bulk of them are just whores for the Democrats.  Yes, whores... only I respect true prostitutes more, because at least they are honest about what they do.

The bulk of the so-called mainstream news media in America are flatly against everything this country--and their profession--stands for.  They have no honor, no sense of fairness, no balance, no integrity.  Take anything you read, see or hear produced by these people with a TON of salt.  A mere grain isn't nearly enough.  It is not as though there aren't multiple examples of media misconduct to tell you that there is smoke and there is FIRE, from Jason Blair to Dan Rather and all the other news manufacturing scandals that have hit the leftist media in recent years to the less obvious, but equally whoreish pattern of behavior where they simply ignore anything that doesn't fit their neat view of how the world should be, from Saddam's documented dealings with al Qaeda dating to the first World Trade Center bombing, through the Gloria Alread's Boys and Girls Club scandal in which the organization, located in The New York Times' backyard, gave public funds to bail out leftist Air America radio.  The Times, predictably, did not cover the story.

We probably shouldn't monkey with the First Amendment, even though the news media of today have made a travesty of honest reporting.  But conservatives--Americans--should shun those media outlets who lie and cheat by canceling subscriptions, refusing to watch leftist news anchors (Katie Couric, watch your ratings continue to plummet) and, as is the case in Miami, holding leftist editors' feet to the fire, until they burn out.

Contributed by Shane Briscoe on October 4, 2006 at 05:07 PM in Shane Briscoe | Permalink

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