Friday, September 4, 2020

YELLOWJOURNALISM PANDEMIC-- Goldberg & The Atlantic--ELECTION 2020

        "...a so-called four-star general with second-hand information from yet another source who 'declined to comment.'..."
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LATE BULLETIN--2300 HRS PDT-- The Yellow Journalism Pandemic sweeping across mainstream media--Other media entities are coming out with similar unsubstantiated reports regarding the scandal, using the same tactics of non-existent anonymous officials:
     " Fox News independently confirmed all of the details in the Atlantic's report, with their national security correspondent, Jennifer Griffin, appearing on the network to say her sources had told her it was entirely true. Griffin said that she was told the president did indeed decide he didn't want to attend the rainy ceremony commemorating U.S. war dead in France. 'The president drives a lot,' Griffin said she was told. 'The other world leaders drove to the cemeteries. He just didn't want to go.' Two former senior officials also confirmed to her that he disparaged war dead. According to Griffin, one of the former senior Trump administration officials told her:''

THIS JUST IN--1930HRS/PDT-- "Stand by Your Man"...
"It has become a very dangerous time when anonymous sources are believed above all else, & no one knows their motivation. This is not journalism -- It is activism. And it is a disservice to the people of our great nation," she tweeted.


     Incline Village, Nev. (EOC)--Apparently, the right to a fair trial applies only to criminals. Politicians don't get that same luxury, whatever anybody claims they said or did, is true, with the accuser the luxury of remaining anonymous. We went through all of this not too long ago with the so-called "whistle blower" scandal that resulted in the impeachment of the president. That impeachment arrived D.O.A. in the Senate. There was no accountability after that for the allegations that led up to the process. Again we are faced with the same dilemma, one of the president's alleged insult of American servicemen and women. 


     A close reading of the article written by Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic reveals just how shallow the claim is that the president made the alleged comments;
     "In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, 'Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.' " (1)
Note the usual tactic of quoting "senior staff members," one of the tactics employed by yellow journalism. 

yel·low jour·nal·ism noun noun: yellow journalism; plural noun: yellow journalisms journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration. "equating murder and dismemberment with smoking pot is the worst yellow journalism" 

     Several paragraphs down, the author of the jaded Atlantic article, makes the same accusation regarding a different visit; 
     "But according to sources with knowledge of this visit..."
Again, the claim cannot be verified by any names. What has the Associated Press Stylebook have to say about anonymous sources?
     "anonymous sources: Whenever possible, we pursue information on the record. When a source insists on background or off-the-record ground rules, we must adhere to a strict set of guidelines." (2)
Those rules include but are not limited to the information not speculation, reliable, approval from news managers. The rules are strict and straightforward and anyone who has had journalism boot camp understands how they are violated often and flagrantly. 
     Most of the article by Goldberg has focus on the Trump-McCain falling out and it offers no detailed information at all on who blew the whistle; no names, faces, followups, a deliberate attempt to smear the Commander-in-Chief.  Further on in  the article, it refers to a so-called four-star general with second-hand information from yet another source who "declined to comment." 
    The mainstream media immediately latched on to it like gospel, the opponent outraged by the comments, whether they were true or false didn't even matter.
    No opportunity for the president to be given the benefit of the doubt to respond to anonymous, dubious no-name "ex-officials" even while the author of the Atlantic piece violated all the rules of journalism ethics and etiquette.
    In yet another attempt to further shame the president and further his crusade, Goldberg appeared on TV and announced that Washington "insiders" were in disbelief;
The article fails to name any of these insiders who are in disbelief...
     A look at Goldberg's profile shows the collusion he has with the others on board out to assassinate the president's character; 
      "Goldberg's book, Prisoners, was hailed as one of the best books of 2006 by the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, The Progressive, Washingtonian magazine, and Playboy." (3)
It doesn't take an anonymous source to see the lineup at his profile is a well-chosen rogue's gallery of the main characters in the conspiracy. All of the above are notorious for using the "anonymous source" technique and it is almost always passed off at face value as true.  Other profiles around the web  of the author aren't so kind.

Cited
2. anonymous, AP Stylebook 55th Edition, Basic Books, NY, 2020-22, Page 18.




The Press Pass issued to James L'Angelle, Cyberstorm, by White House press bureau when President Clinton visited McClellan AFB in Sacramento, 1994

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