Today's Entry -- The New York Times (or Slimes)

Periodically we hear, see, or read some self-serving Drive-By Media type declaim with passion about newspapers. Ooop, make that NEWSPAPERS, and the Holy Calling that being an ordained Journalist is. How the world will come to an end, corruption abound unchecked. How this Sacred Fraternity, operating without fear or favor, is the nation's last bastion against the Powerful.
Bah!! Humbug! What a pile of steaming manure.
Interjection here: what we are going to be mentioning here are

• slanted stories
• planted stories
• items not covered at all
  

All of these things may be true, here and there. I have not seen it, not ever, but I suppose it could happen. But I've seen, often, the collusion of the local news media, TV, radio, and local papers, with the completely corrupt. Places like northeastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Arkansas, parts of Tennessee, parts of Alabama and Georgia. And, of course, outlets that have a reach beyond the local, in places like Chicago and New York.
Usually, these don't extend far. A blind eye to ''arranged'' zoning changes, a blind eye to illegal gambling operations, ''pay to play'' scams, prearranged construction contracts, ticket fixing, dropped DUI charges, or unenforced child support orders. Probably happens in your town or one near to you. As I said, generally the scope is local and limited.
But sometimes it isn't.
Sometimes the stories covered, or not covered, have ramifications that are national or international in their effects. Here's a good example. During the most recent campaign for President of the USA, there were plausible reports linking one candidate to a corrupt organization involved in vote-buying, intimidation, vote fraud, and a variety of other criminal behaviors that seemed to be intrinsic to that organization. A major newspaper, with national and international influence, had access to these reports and was in a position to judge their merit. And refused to air the stories. The term in the trade is ''spiked''. They did not spike the stories because they were not credible and verifiable. They spiked the stories because they judged (correctly) that an informed electorate might alter the voting pattern based upon this information.
Foolish me. I thought that was part of the self-proclaimed holy mission of these media cabals.
Obviously, that is not the case. The real mission of many, perhaps most, of these operations, is to support certain causes and candidates, and to oppose other causes and candidates. Bluntly, they are taking sides, no matter how they deny it.
Case in point: the offender here is the New York Times.
the corrupt organization is generally known as ACORN, an acronym for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
and the politician playing footsie with a corrupt organization? None other than one Barry Soetoro, also known as Barrack Hussein Obama.

Read up on it here.