Accuracy in Media and the Media Research Center, too fine organizations dedicated to reporting and analyzing mainstream “legacy” media bias have released their end of year recognitions of what they consider the most egregious failings and bias by broadcast and print “journalists” in 2014. They are the first to insist that the competition is tough and that with so much bias on display that the decision for them could come down to coin tosses.Unlike mainstream media, they admit their fallibility.
Accuracy in Media lists the Top 10 Misreported or Underreported Stories of 2014
What the stories we have chosen have in common is that in each case, the media have gone with a narrative that is intended to put the Obama administration, the Democratic Party, or the left in general in the best possible light, all things considered. Clearly, one can find articles and interviews and TV reports that contradict those narratives, and even some that put the Obama administration in a negative light. However, this is our view of how a corrupt, mainstream media attempt to spin these stories, and a brief analysis of what is being ignored or misreported:
Benghazi: The Scandal that Won’t Die
Obama’s Cynical Leadership
Obama’s Foreign Policy Disasters
The Rise of the Islamic State & Islamic Terror
Covering Momentous Elections
Democratic Civil War
Continued Failures of Obamacare
How the Media Inflame Racial Tensions
Media Portray Israel as the Aggressor
Judges Challenge Obama Actions
AIM explains the inclusion of each item. Our Veritaspac.com pick of the worst of the worst, because it imbues so much of the rest, is the still dominant liberal media’s quietude towards Obama’s Cynical Leadership (the AIM analysis follows):
The New York Post’s William McGurn called President Obama “shamelessly cynical” on immigration because the President had punted this issue until past the election, so that voters’ input had little effect on the President’s actions. “Like every other action this President has taken on immigration, this new one will, in fact, make genuine immigration reform less rather than more likely,” wrote McGurn. Yet the President and his administration continue to call for immigration legislation as a means to mitigate and counteract the President’s clear executive overreach.
President Obama also delayed Obamacare’s employer mandate for medium-sized employers until 2016, and an Iranian nuclear deal keeps on being pushed off into the sunset. The normalization of relations with Cuba also occurred after an election that could be seen as a repudiation of the President’s radical policies, yet we see more of the same. “[American voters are] going to see Washington working better if this president has his way,” said White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough just days after the November elections.
In the wake of such administration intransigence, POLITICO started championing “Obama libre”—the liberation of Obama from his earlier hesitancy and doubt. He is unleashed, the media argue, to be the president he always wanted to be during his lame duck session. Is that because he no longer feels accountable to the voters? Did he ever? The President must realize that what he is doing is making it highly unlikely that there will be any meaningful cooperation with Congress in the upcoming session.
The Media Research Center end of year awards include winners in featured categories. Each is documented along with runners-up award. Very thorough. Oh how we forget.
- The Move Along, Nothing to See Here Award for Denying Obama’s Scandals
- The Obamagasm Award
- The Blue State Brigade Award for Biased Campaign Coverage
- The Media Hero Award
- The Planet in Peril Award for Climate Hysteria
- The Obama’s Orderlies Award for Championing ObamaCare
- The Ku Klux Con Job Award for Smearing Conservatives with Phony Racism Charges
- Damn Those Conservatives Award
- The Pantsuit Patrol Award for Boosting Hillary Clinton
- America’s Royal Baby Award
- MSNBC = Mean-Spirited, Nasty, Belligerent Chris Award
- The Twisted Tweets Award
- The Audacity of Dopes Award for the Wackiest Analysis of the
- The Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award for Celebrity Vapidity
Of the local daily news media, the QC Times especially, and KWQC on the broadcast side are farm league equivalents in many of the AIM and MRC categories. Any local news outlet that depends on the AP is a contender. If we had to pick one of the local outlets to praise for trying hardest to be objective and get the story straight we would pick WHBF TV News for the year for its local reporting. We are disappointed in local Fox radio and local Fox TV for lack of independence, parroting liberal narratives, and supposedly knowing better.
