The NIE Developments Prove the Need for Alternative Original-News Gatherers
….. but where will they come from?
Okay, selected sections of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) report were leaked over the weekend (the parts designed to make the Bush Administration look bad), probably against the law and certainly against our national interest. They were, of course, reported by the usual suspects. Michelle Malkin had the early details, and joined many others calling for the administration to declassify as much of the report as possible consistent with national security.
As night follows day, the Associated Press yesterday afternoon published an article by Katherine Shrader and shameless and hopelessly conflicted leftist partisan Jennifer Loven supposedly analyzing the entirety of what was released by the Bush Administration earlier in the day in response to the aforementioned unauthorized and leaked news reports. One correspondent to Malkin nailed it: “The (AP) report is presented as negatively as possible, to the point of distortion.” The reality is that, as Charles Johnson of LGF put it, “The Times got pwned” (as did others –Ed.). The totality of the NIE makes a mockery of what The 527 Media chose to selectively report yesterday morning.
So NYT, WaPo, and the Associated (with terrorists) Press essentially spent another couple of days dishonestly trying to alienate anyone who either supports the war, or supports finishing the job now that we are there, and ended the day yet again with egg on their collective faces (and apparently not even realizing it). Their fortunes will continue to wither, as more of their audiences either seek news sources of news or simply tune out in disgust.
But ….. they remain the only original news-gathering game in town. Now, after several months of seditious acts, SOMEONE is reaching a conclusion I reached about two years ago, before this blog even began. I alluded to that conclusion after the false Koran-flushing story in May of 2005, and thought there might be an answer on the horizon:
….. until fair and balanced people are in charge of the initial news-gathering process, the New Media will always be in reactive instead of proactive mode in dealing with the news of the day.
At the time, I thought Pajamas Media might be the organization to break The 527 Media’s current monopoly on original news-gathering. With rare exceptions, PJM, although it has done some cool things, has not been a force in original hard-news content.
Gates of Vienna’s heart is in the right place, but his solution isn’t. A real business, or two, or three, are going to have to be formed to compete fulltime, 24-7-365, with AP, Reuters, AFP, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, and the rest. Original news-gathering needs its Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes. Where are they?
