It’s happened before, this tendency of the MSM to walk away from an incomplete story when something new, and usually more political, comes along. Like sheep moving en masse, the eager correspondents run off in a pack to chase the new news.
It happens…it did back in 1979.
On November 4, 1979, when Iranian “students” took over the U.S. Embassy in Teheran, a 444-day saga began. If you weren’t tuned-in then, here’s just one image from that day.
Although little happened for months on end, the network evening news-readers counted up the days of the “crisis” like we count up the deficit these days. For President Jimmy Carter, the no-news of the daily-news brought political death by 444 cuts.
What’s been largely erased from our collective memory is that, up until that November 4, another story had dominated the daily news cycle for months. Through November 3, day-after-day-after-day the MSM had chronicled the tragic ordeal of tens of thousands of Cambodian refugees crammed in tent camps along the border with Thailand, often crossing over the line to escape the genocide of the Khmer Rouge and their killing fields.
Here are just two images of the thousands from that story.
Then, on November 4, 1979, media coverage of the Cambodian refugees disappeared. Their story went dark. It was as though the Cambodian refugees all suddenly evaporated. They were there on November 3, then – finger snap – gone on the fourth.
So, are we seeing this media trapdoor effect happen with the story in Haiti?
Remember how, against the backdrop of Caribbean foliage, CNN’s Anderson Cooper breathlessly reported the earthquake carnage? Remember how NBC’s Brian Williams did a touch-and-go at the Port-au-Prince Airport – the big dog reporting live from Haiti in casual attire? Remember how FOX’s Shepherd Smith tried, on-air, to facilitate the transfer of an adopted Haitian child to the U.S. couple who lacked only a signature from the U.S. Department of State to bring the child to America? Shep to the rescue.
Remember, too, how President Obama formally marched out a line-up of his chiefs to stand behind him as he explained our first response? And how Vice President Biden catalogued what the U.S. was immediately doing to bring relief?
And, don’t forget, there was the Special U.S. Envoy to Haiti working the crowd:
That was then.
Where’s the MSM now? Seems they’ve moved on. Things must not be going well there.
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There was such a race by the obama administration to beat Bush's response to Katrina. The media had to be there. Once the recovery phase started, the stories have been slim, but the suffering hasn't stopped. Look how long the Katrina story lasted compared to an even larger disaster. MSM is complacent. The story hasn't ended in Haiti. The people are still there…with nothing.
Isn't interesting how quickly the media is all over something and then gone. Its like they are ADHD, bright shiny objects take their focus off even the biggest disaster. Its a shame really…having said that I don't think the regular folk forget as quickly. It would be nice to see some stories of the people of Haiti and how they are doing and more importantly how is the money being spent that has been contributed, are the people of Haiti receiving the food, clothes, etc.
Those Liberal Pukes were bashing Fox for their lack of coverage (which was actually balanced) while they had their guilt orgy and when they had their fill they turned their attention back to what they think is important like global warming, socialized medicine and attacking Sarah Palin.
Rush Limbaugh's description has never rung truer, the DRIVE BY MEDIA on display for all to see.
LOOK! Sarah Palin has WORDS — written on her hand! There's something sinister going on. She even looked at her hand when she was answering questions. THIS IS IMPORTANT NEWS, PEOPLE! And… This just in… it's SNOWING in winter! Story of the year!
Oooh! Bright shiny object!
Does anyone realize that the photo of the blindfolded American in Iran is being held by the current president of Iran? The man to the right of the prisoner in the photo is "I'madinnerjacket". Now he's the president of Iran, and Obama wants to be al "nicey nicey" to him. He's a thug and a revolutionary, and should be treated as such.
I really liked Sarah's low tech telepromptr…Nice to see some one doing what we've all done and some of you still do…Just sayin'…
But oh, on the topic of the lockstep MSM …So what else is new??
For the leftist media Sarah Derangement Syndrome tops everything, including…."Oh, another survivor pulled from the rubble after three weeks — <yawn> — we did that photo op already."
You think any of them realize the death throws they're in? A'll in lock step down the garden path to the bone yard.
.I'm makin' a head stone now … No Real Curosity…. Blinded by Idology,… Committed Mass Suicide -Didn't Even Realize It……RIP… in Haiti….
You are certainly right about the journalists abandoning a story and flocking to a new one, but you are quite mistaken that there was heavy US media coverage of Pol Pot's mass murder in Cambodia. Adams has documented in detail how very little media coverage this communist genocide received at the time. See: http://www.gwu.edu/~pad/202/readings/cambodia.htm...
Question: How many Haitians living in the USA returned to Haiti to help in the emergency? Comment: Please keep the Haitians in Haiti.
I think she's talking after the fact…Like when the movie came out…
Oh look…the tea-baggers finally found a reason to actually care about Haiti. How cute.
Tune in tomorrow when America's Slowest Racists find a reason to exploit the mentally handicapped as an excuse to whine about the media. Oh wait…been there, done that!
Tune in tomorrow when America's Slowest Racists find a reason to exploit illiteracy as an excuse to whine about the media. Oh wait…that's been done too huh?
Tune in tomorrow when America's Slowest Racists find a reason to exploit Fort Hood massacre as an excuse to whine about the media. Shucks! You already did that too!
Oh well, tune in tomorrow when the media exploits America's Slowest Racists by highlighting the whopping 600 retards (strictly satirical there) dumb enough to attend the pay for view Tea Party convention in Nashville highlighted by a moron who uses body parts as a teleprompter and an unemployed racist who wants to re-institute racist voter suppression tactics. YAY!!!!
Gump, how much support have you given Haiti? And get off your racist rant you racist!
Syntax-"Blah Blah Blah, i have nothing important to say, so I copy/paste crap from someone else's blog…blah blah blah…" Go away. seriously. If you truly cared SOOOOOO much more than we do, how come you are blogging, and not in Haiti helping? And don't get all haughty, like "Well, how come you're not?" I never said I was. YOU DID. You showed how shallow you are with your post. Follow Murtha. Follow Kennedy. Go away, become more insignificant than you already are, and stop wasting our oxygen.
It really is annoying when Syntax talks about himself the way he does….I think he hears voices!
Right. They don't realize it but they're in for a ruuuude awakening. Keep chipping away.
I'madinnerjacket? LOL! I like the moniker I'mInaJihad, but yeah… the unholy alliance between leftist swine and Islamic Jihad will bite us all.
where where???? I missed it!
I think it's amazing that they're still finding survivors. It's too bad Libs have such a short attention span.
We should be so lucky that we don't actually get to here you speak.
It would be like listening to mouth farts.
The ability of human beings to endure the most extreme circumstances is both a physical and metaphysical phenomenon.
I was a military survival instructor, and the more I studied the case histories of survivors, the more I became convinced that the power of the mind, especially when infused with faith, can accomplish what science and medicine might say is impossible.
You mean Sarah Palin the communist? What was that VERY POPULAR program she expanded and endorsed? You know, the one where the STATE'S resources are utilized and the PEOPLE get a share of it? Residents of Alaska are eligible for thousands a year because of the oil pumped out. THAT'S not capitalism. Capitalism would be someone with an inside track buying up some mineral rights and telling everyone else, including those with the surface rights – to kiss their a$$es.
I know I will probably catch hell for this, but this website at least shows what is going on in Haiti. This is one of my favorite ministries because very little money goes to administrative funds. It goes to the folks in need. They were also one of the first responders to get to Haiti, besides the facts they already had people there helping before the earthquake. I hope I don't offend…just want to share.
http://www.samaritanspurse.org/
I forgot to tell you the videos are at the bottom of the screen. There are several videos to check out.
Franklin Graham – wild child who found the Higher Plane and made his Momma and Daddy proud. : )
Indeed! I can relate!
Oh, I can only imagine, you being a red-head and all, Maureen O'Hara… ; )
Was it the Iranian hostage crisis that gave rise to "Nightline" on ABC. I think the hostage crisis was chronicled nightly on this show, and they just kept it up after this show. This was before the networks were commissioned for commie propaganda.
I am just going to blame it on the 70's. ;^}
I " Blame It on Rio " !
That poor guy is going to have it rough, possibly for the rest of his life…
The dehydration he's been exposed to is very hard on the internal organs…
God, please listen and hold that soul tight, his pain is just starting…
Most of the leftist women look like Garafalo, Maddow, or Abzug…
Which explains Syntax, he's trolling for leftovers….
Go mate with your Devil Spawn, you statist…!
Correct. He with the plastic hair, Koppel, kept the count…
Well, it appears God still has plans for this particular child of His on this side of the Jordan.
Maybe to get more folks believing in miracles and answered prayers, for instance….
That's not so bad…
The problem from a psych view is he KNOWS he hears voices…and they all tell him he's significant…
More leftist delusion…even their mentally ill can't escape the herd mentality…
You know, I bet 90% of the commenters here don't know who Bella Abzug was….
….She cast an unpleasant shadow over my youth growing up in NYC.
Well just to give you some reassurance………………I sure know who Bella of the hats that never could quite hide her ugliness, was.
I remember her. Big hats, homely, lib, peace nik.
that is so brutal man, so true, but brutal none the less ha ha ha libbies
back when ABC was owned by Capital Cities, pre-Mickey Mouse ownership. BC before cable
Have a point or you like giving me the satisfaction of getting a rise out of a simpleton like you. Blah Blah Blah and all. LOL
Project your racism back on me. Wow…that hasn't been done before.
Please please PLEASE run that doofus in 2012. PLEASE!!!
Stick with racist speakers who use body parts as teleprompters. You probably couldn't afford me and I wouldn't waste my time on a convention of a lousy 600 baggers.
And oh yeah…thanks for showing the picture of the terrorists that Ronald Reagan illegally sold military hardware to. Illegally sold weapons to a nation that was declared an enemy of the state. Good Ol' Ronald HUSSEIN Reagan and his terrorist sympathizing ways but hey, helping terrorists is "Patriotism". Helping Americans is "Socialism: I wonder how many Israelis were killed at the hands of various terrorist organizations that would become Hezbollah using illegally sold military hardware? Hmmmm…I wonder why Ollie North never goes to Israel? Now this was the Iran/Contra Affair. I forget…was this before or after Reagan cut and run from Lebanon after the deaths of close to 300 Marines. Patriotism indeed. I imagine those terrorists would get government run health care under Sarah "Bush III" Palin.
Did you read these talking points off the palm of your hand? LOL
Sarah Palin who taxed the energy companies in Alaska and re-distributed the wealth to the residents of Alaska. Text book definition of Socialism right there. Taking from the "Haves" and wealth re-distributing to the "Have nots".
Tea-baggers exploiting the Constitution as an excuse to project their Socialist (borderline Communist) ways back on others. Hell, these parasites praise the Constitution like wannabe patriots and they can't even bother to recognize and respect a Constitutionally elected President. The Constitution gets in the way of these parasites and their treasonous agenda. Thank God there isn't enough of them to matter. Thank God nobody important showed up at their pathetic little convention. Nobody important but pimps, quitters and unemployed racists.
Rush Limbaugh? Guy is a f##king retard right there!!! I love satire. Don't you?
Stephen Colbert is AWESOME!!! (I read that off my hand teleprompter)
Yeah. Can't you see the deal signed by Ronald Reagan in his back pocket to illegally sell him weapons even though the US State Department has classified him and his country an enemy of the state? It's PATRIOTISM!!!
Estimated final death toll in Haiti is at 230,000 souls. Saw that on the "lame stream media" today while you pigs are exploiting this for political points and to satisfy your racist, pathetic non-important and meaningless existence. This is all you are. This is all you will ever be. I'm beginning to feel sorry for you angry bunch of kennel dogs. Every day, one of you come out of your cages and start thinking for yourselves.
I still say that’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the far right in that 1st Iranian picture….
Haiti? Who's that? Is that a friend of Barak?
What is needed is an NFL franchise in Port au Prince.
Media people have the attention span and intellectual depth of goldfish.
I didn't say there was "heavy US media coverage of Pol Pot's mass murder in Cambodia." There wasn't. But there was heavy coverage of the plight of Cambodian refugees.
(The first Khmer Rouge "troups" I saw had KKK on their scarves. My reaction was, "The Klan?" They were very bad people.)
I know some goldfish, and Anderson Cooper is no goldfish.
…and sharks are biting people again!
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Sarah is hot, isn't she ?
Just an inconsequential chillbilly, but you and the lamestream media can't get her outta your mind….hahaha
Man, it's fun watching lefties descend into mindless, random invective. A month of bad news and they become poo-flinging howler monkeys.
So the dogeared, grease-stained race card is all ya got left. Pathetic. Just pathetic.
small troll…remains small
After Haiti resumes its own destiny, it still won't have overtly competent medical care…and this guy is going to be a long list of problems…unless the Big Guy heals him thoroughly…
Not saying there aren't wonderful miracles everyday…but I would really not care for him to suffer any more than he already has…
small troll…remains small…
I know they want to claim the Hollyweird actresses as "enlightened", but like vaporware, the target changes constantly…first they're for this , then they're for that…if it weren't for handlers, they would walk into open doors….and hurt themselves…
Not a woman I could get close to, and, considering the state of Hollyweird marriages, neither can they…
small troll…enjoys cluelessness…
;^)
Not to mention being played for as a chump.
There you go with that projection issue again. Is this part of your daily, recommended therapy?
Archy Cary
Love you last picture!
You should have named the sheep for the various media.
Ouch, someone has mommy issues… she beat you? Still, no reason to hate women.
I was off the coast in "Gonzo Station". We should have finished Iran then. BTW, Syntax, where were YOU?
Lorben
Now be fair, the media is covering the story of the missionaries, trying to take the children from the rubble and hunger, over the hill to safety. That coverage is not at all biased, right?
You've really twisted yourself into a pretzel with this one. It's painful to watch. Maybe you can get a gig with Cirque du Soliel.
I guess what I'm saying is that — for some people — a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. You don't understand the issues about which you expound.
Was that on a crawl?
I think it's obvious the news media has a short attention span. I don't think you have to be a conservative to see that. Why be so defensive of this particular group? Because to admit they do anything wrong you have to admit it's just possible everything that's been spoon fed you could be suspect and ideologically motivated?
Definitely. I can't believe some of these posts. Really delusional.
It's almost parody.
Please stop feeding the Troll. It wins when you post responses to comments designed and posted for no other reason than to make you mad.
I didn't think that you'd be able to write anything on your hand because of all the lotion or baby oil or whatever you use. Don't let us interrupt you in your quest for self-gratification.
Are you sure he's not a… ZOMBIE?! Surprised the MSM didn't fling the poop spin in that direction.
Prayers to all those suffering in Haiti.
gamer – Your mom is calling you. Don't forget to save and quit your porn, so she doesn't find out.
At least she only needed note cards and six words written on her hand. Obummer can't even "speak" coherently, without his two crutches latched to both sides of his overinflated noggin.
If anyone is yapping like a little lame stream media lapdog it's you. While you and your pathetic side are trying and failing to make your own political points, caring Americans are still sending aid to the Haitians. Where's the media covering that story? What are you worried about what us pigs are doing anyways? I thought that trolls only were interested in goats.
If he's the immature high schooler that he sounds like, he wasn't even a twinkle in his father's (or should I say "one of the suspects" eye).
obvious troll…is misogynistic…
Afford you? I know you're just trying to sound like an elitist progressive socialist, but you're not worth the time I'm taking to type this right now. I could be doing so many other important things (anything else falls into that category), but you humor me with your pathetic posturing. The poo-flinging monkeys that someone else mentioned always come to mind when your screeds pop up. Keep entertaining us, Simba. You're a barrel of laughs!
It makes me sick. Excellent point luilui…I know that the left would love to make a huge deal out of this and it scares the hell out of me with this present administration. To use them as an example of how evil we Christians really are. I would love to see some citizen journalism done on this story…..hopefully it will come.
Whoever it is, if we're sending money they must hate us. Will Barak have to bow again?
I was reading a business story about the profits of the NY Times. It seems that revenue is down, adds are down, circulation is down. But profits were up to .61 a share on lowered costs.
Does that mean the last 2 employees are turning off the porch light at night?
The oil belongs to the people. It's the people that are the real power, in socialism the elite rule in the name of the people. So, by companies voluntarily paying a fair price for resources taken from the people is only fair. Socialism would have nationalized the companies, put state officers in charge of the companies and then run the companies in the name of the people, without the people getting any benefits from it.
This was the total opposite of applied socialism.
So, if you pretend to be using satire like Rush did, who are you quoting?
Before they decide if his mom should have had an abortion or not, they want to see what he thinks of Palin.
Oh, I saw it was you and was falling asleep. Did you finally say something I won't be bored by?
You'd have to wait until his mom sobers up enough to talk, but just don't turn the lights on, it hurts her eyes and she had a long night at her usual street corner.
i noticed Abuminejab in the photo, the media is owned by terrorist. they gave nobel peace prize to Arafat who hijacked planes and murdered passengers, and now to obama the whitehouse terrorist
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But the thing is, now it is no longer in their interest to cover Haiti. The way the MS works now is there is one public display of self-gratification after another. "Look how good we are doing. You should love us. In other news…" Same with the Obama administration. They hop from one photo-op to another without any results of any kind to show they are working in the country's best interest. He is a figurehead for the Czars and his Mandarins in the House and Senate. Nothing more.
and the snow…………snow…………………snow
its the only news in the world today………………..or so the media insists
as obozo continues to run his piehole to the media embarrassment and chagrin at the realization that they have to cover for their idiot prez
obviously sucks to you…………..having to defend "hate America" obozo and "not proud of America" michelle
syntax is just huffpoop/dkooks sycophant venturing out into the real world with the typical LIBERAL VITRIOL AND HATE toward the real Americans
Jimmy Carter dieing the death of 444 cuts sounds OK to me after what he did to/for/with the hostage crisis. I think it's great that the Obamatons like to wheel him out every now and then as some kind of great inspiration/mentor/sage/statesman, reminds me who they really are "PROGRESSIVES". Ignore the past look to the future of milk and honey!
yea okay, Rahm, you are f***ing re****ed.
wow 2 trolls ganging up on you, paging troll patrol, one is moronic and the other is an icky moron.
do you think he is wearing a county issue jump suit or his pee-jays in mommy's basement?
Benson to Quayle, touche
Now there YOU go again Syn.
Stop being a douche'.
This type of ADHD coverage has helped us get to where we are today. Not only are they short attention span theater, they are also flat out blind to the real news!
Did you get a tingle up your leg?
Yeah I think BHO thinks we have enough corpses right here. The Marine Corpse, Navy corpse-men.
Sadly, the media in Canada is also complicit in many ways, esp when it comes to covering their own troops helping out. And they're not the only troops on the ground who will continue to work without photo ops and come home long after this story is a fading memory.
http://mooseandsquirrel.ca/2010/01/30/05:23/dispa...
Both have the blind devotion to their religion, Progressivism. It is their cult, their master.
gamer- Yours needs two mega-prompter and even then can't get it right!
You got that right! That is why their party is a religion. Blindly believing that their failed policies of the past, that have never worked, will miraculously work in the future. 'Progressives' like lemmings over the cliff. Their milk and honey is almost as good as the 72 virgins, with the same result, destruction.
Wake up America!!
"It rubs the lotion on its skin…or else it gets the hose again…"
So I guess you have a short attention span, too?
Anderson Cooper went back this week, after being there TWO WEEKS following the earthquake.
Of course it feels like the media is dropping the story– if you're not watching, genius.
It's been a month since the earthquake – over 2 million
desperately need of food assistance. They have no homes, no
jobs, no food. The World Food Programme was there before the
quake, and they'll be there afterwards helping to rebuild lives.
If you want to help you should go to:
http://wfp.org/crisis/haiti or text FRIENDS to 90999 to make a
$5 donation
Poor goats…not a big fan of goats….but poor goats!
Uhhh….no! ;^)
I wonder if they are blind….or are they Saul Alinskites? We know why MSNBC is in the tank for Obama and Congress, with GE (owner of MSNBC) positioning themselves for all the new green industries O is suppose to be pushing out.
Unfortunately things are beginning to crumble around them. Its like someone greater than man is in control.
I was referring to Chris Matthews from the drive by media. I got a tingle once, but it turned out to be my cell phone.
When I say blind it is in reference to "turning a blind eye". They know exactly what is going on. They are progressives of the worst ilk. They reference Alinsky and all of the other radicals that have paved the way for their silent coup.
The green industries are just the latest face-lift that these creeps efforts to take control of this Great Nation. It is like Van Jones starting out as a communist, friend of a cop killer and ending up working with White House. If it walks like a duck, it's ain't no chicken. They can change their names, but their core beliefs ring true, Progressives through and through.
You are right. We are not in control. We need to pray for our Great Nation.
I did know that! Its just hard sometimes to be silly with the written word….and if I really think about it I do get a tingle down my leg, when my cell phone sends me a tweet from Big Government many times a day.
We think alike Andreaen. Its going to be a long ten months before elections, but I think we are going to win this silent coup the left is bringing against us. I am encouraged by the election in Massachusetts and the SCOTUS ruling on McCain/Fiengold. It has the fingerprints of God all over it! We indeed need to pray for our nation! Thank all of your family members for their military service and thank you for supporting them in their service.
yo Archy Cary, you are supposed to be a journalism website, Anderson Cooper is in Haiti right now. Please instead of just waking up and picking stories out of thin air, actually get your facts straight.
oh look………another liberal America hater admitting that he is losing the argument and America is rejecting him and his corrupt/incompetent prez – obozo
swirls of pissdom is his domain
You Mean Who Dat…as in the emotion tugging Nawlins Aints won a Stupor Bowl.
Oh How Drew Brees saved a city weep weep weep.
As I told my wife that night, I have done more for that stinking city through my taxes then any football quarterback could ever hope to give through his Hopey Changey re-imagining of history. Pffft
Wow, you're back. So did you try to pretend to be a conservative a few days ago ("Syntax_Gayn") or was that someone hijacking your nick and now you're overcompensating?
How gobsmacking.
What if we're mildly amused at the shrillness and general insanity?
It's his new favorite word… that he has no idea what it means. At least he spelled it correctly this time.
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Actually, Israel sold Iran the weapons. But don't let the facts get in the way of your hysteria.
"Hmmmm…I wonder why Ollie North never goes to Israel?"
Oliver North broadcast his radio show from Jerusalem. Please, do a little pre-hissy Googling once in a while.
Sorry, but in fact, there was not "heavy coverage of the plight of Cambodian refugees." The article cited above documents that lack of coverage over four years.
It's true that the MSM has stopped reporting a lot on Haiti, (I still see CNN doing reports), but I really don't care. Haiti is Haiti and it sucks to be Haiti, now or then. I'm more worried about the US not becoming more like Haiti now, not Haiti being Haiti. You could also say the same thing about Bangladesh as that's another arm pit but the MSM will never report about them because it's so far away, there are probably dozens of Haiti's and Bangladesh's in the world, life goes on.
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