Islamic Terrorism - Media Failing Us

Jihad Watch reports on a startling revelation by a CBS News reporter.

Soul-searching at CBS? Well, we'll see what happens to Fenton. From Accuracy in Media, with thanks to Nicolei and RB:

"We know we could have saved thousands of lives if we had done more to bring the public's attention to the threat of an Al-Qaeda attack in the years before 9/11. What we must ask now is why did we fail?"

That startling statement is made by CBS News Senior Foreign Correspondent Tom Fenton in his just released book "Bad News: The Decline of Reporting, The Business of News, and The Danger to Us All." This fascinating insider's account of broadcast news serves up 9/11 as a wake-up call to those concerned over declining standards in media. He says, "CBS News like most of the broadcast news industry, had been sliding blithely downhill for years; for me it was the failure of my own profession that cut deepest."

Fenton notes what he believes is the problem.

When it comes to media failures, Fenton contends the real questions are "the ones that go to the heart of the system" and "never get asked." He asks, "Do media organs give us enough of the truth (otherwise known as news) or do they consistently miss large, crucial chunks of it? Do they even know what real news is?"

Bunny had similar thoughts the other day. Scroll down to this:

First paragraph good. Second paragraph not so good. Journalists get the big picture wrong so often simply because they have their own "big picture" story already filed in their head, the content of which is usually "America is screwed", or "America is screwed for as long as we persist with x's policies". Inconvenient facts are handled by their own internal sub-editor, who puts them in the "circular file". (So, not that different from bloggers then).

Put this together with outright lies put forth by the likes of Dan Rather of CBS and Eason Jordon of CNN and you have a media in meltdown.

Print media is no different and is having a meltdown as well.
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