Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumJon Stewart Apology Shows A Humility Missing In The Mainstream Media (VIDEO)
How often do the mainstream media misinform or outright lie? How many of them apologize or correct the record for the misinformation and lies? How often do they research and correct the political points they were forced to air from politicians and political operatives?
Currently the mainstream media are scolding the Obama administration for lack of access and for using other types of media (social media and local media) to get their information out directly. They insinuate the behavior is tantamount to state run media.
Maybe if the mainstream media behaved as Jon Stewart in the video below, the administration would be less reticent. It is refreshing to watch Stewart who realizes that inasmuch as he is a satirist, he should apologize and correct the record when he wrongly maligns someone.
Last week he did a skit on Mississippi taking 148 years to ratify the 13th amendment, the amendment that abolished slavery. He implied that the former Mississippi secretary of state Dick Molpus, who presided over a 1995 attempt to ratify the 13th amendment, may have been a casual bigot. It turned out
Dick Molpus had a long and distinguished record for speaking out for Civil Rights.
He led charge on voting rights reform.
In 1989 he spoke at the 25th year anniversary of the three kids killed in Mississippi during the Civil Right conflicts for which he received death threats.
What is telling is no one called the Jon Stewart show to ask him to correct the record. He did it out of duty. One can only hope that in the long run the mainstream media will be forced to act accordingly. They have yet to apologize for all the misinformation that they have put out from the buildup to the war in Iraq to the misinformation about the Affordable Care Act. They could learn a bit from Stewart.
VIDEO HERE
----------------------------------------------------------
Subscribe to my newsletter here.
InfoView thread info, including edit history
TrashPut this thread in your Trash Can (My DU » Trash Can)
BookmarkAdd this thread to your Bookmarks (My DU » Bookmarks)
5 replies, 1729 views
ShareGet links to this post and/or share on social media
AlertAlert this post for a rule violation
PowersThere are no powers you can use on this post
EditCannot edit other people's posts
ReplyReply to this post
EditCannot edit other people's posts
Rec (16)
ReplyReply to this post
5 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
Jon Stewart Apology Shows A Humility Missing In The Mainstream Media (VIDEO) (Original Post)
egbertowillies
Feb 2013
OP
Thanks, egbertowillies, you always bring the real stories. As far as MSM getting on Obama for using
freshwest
Feb 2013
#2
jerseyjack
(1,361 posts)1. I don't think it was the nicest apology.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)2. Thanks, egbertowillies, you always bring the real stories. As far as MSM getting on Obama for using
social media to get his word out, they only have themselves to blame.
They have boycotted every announcement he's made and behaved as if Obama does not exist! When they do report, they edit video and audio to distort. They've called Osama, and even said he's dead! A little wishful thinking there?
They have promoted the most vile and dishonest smear campaigns for years against him. There has never been such an overt campaign against a President or candidate as the way they treated Obama since he got in office. Oh, they are so shocked and horrified he was re-elected!
No one, since the dismissive and disrespectful way they treated Jesse Jackson when he ran for the office has been treated like this. Add years of dissing all other black leaders like Sharpton, etc.
Okay, I'll calm down. Thanks for the report.
They have boycotted every announcement he's made and behaved as if Obama does not exist! When they do report, they edit video and audio to distort. They've called Osama, and even said he's dead! A little wishful thinking there?
They have promoted the most vile and dishonest smear campaigns for years against him. There has never been such an overt campaign against a President or candidate as the way they treated Obama since he got in office. Oh, they are so shocked and horrified he was re-elected!
No one, since the dismissive and disrespectful way they treated Jesse Jackson when he ran for the office has been treated like this. Add years of dissing all other black leaders like Sharpton, etc.
Okay, I'll calm down. Thanks for the report.
Ian David
(69,059 posts)3. Did you hurt yourself when you bent over backwards to make this a criticism of Obama? n/t
Cha
(297,323 posts)4. Thank you egberto for highlighting Stewart's apology.. that's
what people with integrity do.
And, thank you for continuing to call out the corporatemediawhores on their continuous whining about the Obama Admin. All they do is carry water for the reCons and blame the President for their incompetence.