Wednesday, January 27, 2010
The Media - and Islamic Jihad
When the media "flavors" their reporting, their credibility declines. Duh!...
Pamela Geller writes about it at BigJournalsim.com. She begins:
"In case you’ve ever wondered why you never got the straight story on Islam directly after Sept. 11, and still haven’t, and why the media seems in the tank for jihad, here’s a clue.
The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) issued this directive a couple of weeks after 9/11; for sheer propaganda, their 'Diversity Guidelines' are hard to beat. In fact, the enemy who attacked our country in an attempt to bring it down may just as well have been writing the narrative.
The 'guidelines,' adopted at the Society’s national convention on October 6, 2001, urges journalists to 'take steps against racial profiling in their coverage of the war on terrorism and to reaffirm their commitment to use language that is informative and not inflammatory.'
How? Among other things:"
