In his speech last January at the Conservative Forum in Silicon Valley, Evan Sayet addressed the question of “Why the Mainstream Media gets Every Major Story Not Just Wrong But as Wrong as Wrong Can Be.” The short answer to the question about the media’s utter, complete and total failure, Sayet claims, is that to …
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August, 2013 As part of our effort to fight for objective and honest media, RATM has created an “Integrity in Journalism” award. This award is presented to those journalists who exhibit the characteristics which are critical in those to whom we turn to for our news and information. These are, foremost, integrity – that trait …
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At RATM we are often asked: “Are there really no honest investigative journalists among the Mainstream Media?” Until today, we could say: “Yes, there’s one. Sharyl Attkisson at CBS is the guiding light, the one journalist we can count on to dig into stories that no other “journalist” will dare to touch.” In fact, at …
Read More...CNN’s Don Lemon lets slip what we all know: “As a journalist, you weigh how much you should criticize the president because he’s black,” but goes on, “but then you have to do it because ultimately, you’re a journalist.” Not all of them quite get to that second part. read more
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The Washington Post’s headline “Conservative backlash kills FCC plan to survey America’s newsrooms” speaks volumes. Indeed, only conservatives fought back against the invasion of America’s newsrooms by the agency which licenses them. Only conservatives fought against the incursion into the press’s freedom to report without being accountable to the government. At RATM we are constantly shocked …
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Hmmm….. all this talk about calling in the FCC to monitor newsrooms gives us an idea. Not that we want them monitored, mind you – not at all. But they have a mechanism for complaining about “rigging or slanting the news” so it would be wrong of us not to speak up, right? From the …
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