Why does The Telegraph & AP Deceive the People?

We have to wonder does The Telegraph and AP (Associated Press) enjoy deceiving the people. They continue to do so daily. Both have denigrated into organizations which Joseph Paul Goebbels would be proud of. They would have fit right in during the 1930s in Germany. 

In a concurring opinion of Associated Press v. United States, Justice Frankfurter observed: “The business of the press, and therefore the business of the Associated Press, is the promotion of the truth regarding public matters by furnishing the basis for an understanding of them.”

While this might not be a legal requirement it certainly has moral applications. If someone spends their hard earned money for something promoted as news, from an organization which promotes the paper as “middle Georgia’s newspaper” they have a right to expect honesty and integrity in what they buy.  The Telegraph  falls far short of this and in most cases promote little more than raw unadulterated bigotry. Some examples are provided in this post.

The media today is more like a common thief in the night, there is nothing honorable or moral about them.

We may be able to understand The Telegraph’s attitude. They seem to think that everyone in middle Georgia is just plain dumb. Charles E. Richardson comments on this all the time; about the people’s memory and how they could not find Afghanistan on a map, etc.

The Telegraph Executive Editor Sherrie Marshall and her crew have outdone their self. Reasonable people would have to conclude there has to be more than a “lousy lunch” and “family employment” involved here.

Under the guise of a news article they tell the readers that Romney seeks distance from Ryan’s budget plans. (You have to scroll down) That is an out an out lie and any reasonable person who looks would know it and we are sure that The Telegraph and Marshall knew it. If she did not perhaps she is in a position she is not qualified to hold. Of course that appears to be immaterial when it comes to peddling propaganda, character assassination, hatchet jobs, etc.

It looks as if The Telegraph and AP are planning to join the rest of the media in the preparation of another hatchet job and character assassination in an effort to duplicate the one they did with such success on the Republican Presidential Candidate Herman Cain.  

They appear to be well beyond the point where such a thing as journalistic integrity means anything to them.

Richardson was on the air this morning, (08/13/12) thanks to General Manager Becky Swan of Frontier Broadcast Holdings and WGXA TV channel 24 bragging about his wife working at the Welcome Center of the Bibb County Board of Education.  From the looks of things in the photos at Bill Knowles’s Long Lines Reported At The Welcome Center of Bibb BOE. They are all on a coffee break.

 We would think The Telegraph must feel that their cover-up of the influence pedaling for employment has been a success. This appears to be something to make President and Publisher George McCanless and McClatchy Newspapers proud.

There were only 178 words in The Telegraph’s little scam on Romney and Ryan. Again they offer no facts, no quotes, nothing. They tell you what they want you to think. You see this in the heading, they then go on with “Romney’s ideas rule, not his running mate’s” If you will notice when you read the piece there are no quotes, they are telling us this is their words not Romney’s.

The “Romney’s ideas rule, not his running mate’s” is similar to the verbiage used by Viser’s “…Romney would be the ultimate decision-maker.”  Seen below.

They delve deeper into deception with “Romney put gentle but unmistakable distance between his agenda and Ryan’s hot-potato budget proposals….” Again there are no quotes, nothing to indicate that this is anything but something Marshall and crew made up.

Then in a few misleading quotes from Obama and Axelrod they close the piece out.

 

It looks as if The Telegraph is waiting for someone like Politico, the Obama administration, etc. to come along with an outline they can follow such as Politico did in the “hi-tech” lynching of Herman Cain. You can see this in the link: The Telegraph's "hi-tech" lynching of Herman Cain! which was so successful.

There has been some attempt at this. Matt Viser of The Boston Globe has not quite caught on yet. In his Romney, Ryan rouse crowds Viser does tell us that: “Ed Gillespie, a senior adviser to Romney, said on Sunday that Romney would have signed Ryan’s budget plan if it were on his desk as president. But he and others were quick to point out that Romney would be the ultimate decision-maker.”

This is nothing more than a contradiction of The Telegraph Executive Editor Sherrie Marshall’s “Romney seeks distance from Ryan’s Budget plans”. Viser will learn.

When we look at the AP article in the San Francisco Chronicle titled Romney distances from Ryan budget ideas we find something which looks like what Marshall is trying to imitate, perhaps maybe a little plagiarism, but probably not, even though it is the same words.  

We find the “Romney put gentle but unmistakable distance between his agenda and Ryan’s hot-potato budget proposals on Sunday as the new team soaked up excitement from partisans in North Carolina and Ryan's home state of Wisconsin. But Democrats weren't about to let them off that hook.”   The Telegraph used this verbatim. 

In the article we find that: “Romney walked a careful line as he campaigned with Ryan by his side in North Carolina. Romney singled out Ryan's work ‘to make sure we can save Medicare.’ But the presidential candidate never said whether he embraced that plan himself. During the Republican primary, Romney had called Ryan's budget a ‘bold and exciting effort’ that was ‘very much needed.’”

Does this sound like Executive Editor Sherrie Marshall and crew’s Romney seeks distance from Ryan’s budget plans? Or does it sound like they are lying to you. That is for you to decide.

This article repeats the Gillespie statement. “On CNN, Romney senior adviser Ed Gillespie said Romney would have signed Ryan's proposed austere budget if it landed on his desk as president. But he also emphasized that Romney would ‘be putting forward his own budget’ if he wins the election.”

The bigotry and deception of The Telegraph and Executive Editor Sherrie Marshall’s penchant for deception comes through loud and clear here.

It is interesting in this article by AP we find a “…crowd of 5,000 in High Point, N.C." In another article by AP’s Kasie Hunt titled Romney seeks distance from Ryan's budget plans we find the “crowd of 5,000 in High Point, N.C.” again and some more familiar rhetoric. 

That “hi-tech” lynching is coming; it is just that everyone has to get together. If you recall it was pointed out in:  The Telegraph's "hi-tech" lynching of Herman Cain! That it took until Nov 4^th  for the Daily Caller to point out that  News organizations continue to protect identities of Cain’s accusers. Then on Nov. 8^th Kelly Mcbride of poynter.org, ask  Why did journalists act as a pack in withholding names of Herman Cain’s accusers? 

Then in an article by Caroline May of The Daily Caller titled Over 10K greet Romney and Ryan in High Point, NC we find that there were “…1,200 people were inside the venue while another 10,000 were outside.”

We ask is The Telegraph and AP lining up things for another “hi-tech” lynching again? Are they lying to you? Do you think they are deliberately lying to you?

How can anyone trust these people for honest news and information they need to make informed decisions?

Have a Nice day.