Reading NBC News’s announcement Tuesday that it was hiring David Axelrod, a top adviser to Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns, as a “senior political analyst,” I had a sinking feeling in my stomach: No wonder the American public increasingly mistrusts the news media. We are obliterating the line between the political players and the people who are supposed to act as commentators and referees.
NBC boasted in its news release about how “for nearly three decades Axelrod guided successful campaigns at every level on the ballot.” Once upon a time, that would have been a disqualification for a news organization. But now, NBC brags that Axelrod “will contribute frequently across all broadcasts and platforms.” And he won’t just be a “senior political analyst” for MSNBC, the broadcaster’s more ideological affiliate, but also for the NBC mothership.
Just a week ago, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow introduced Robert Gibbs, the former Obama White House spokesman and campaign operative, as a new contributor. Politico reported that Gibbs would also appear on NBC News.
This trend is hardly new. It’s commonplace these days for television news operations to hire former political advisers or campaign operatives as analysts. Fox has a stable of them, including former George W. Bush aides Karl Rove and Dana Perino, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and, until recently, that modern-day Edward R. Murrow, Sarah Palin. ABC News’s budding superstar is George Stephanopoulos, who has adapted so well to journalism that people forget he was once a top White House aide to President Bill Clinton.
Read More at The Washington Post . By David Ignatius.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/02/president_unleashes_a_nationwide_community_organizing_campaign.html
One thing that Obama does well is community organizing. This is what he has been doing for years, and has now taken it to a new high. We must take advantage of his techniques and use them for ourselves.
Let us enlist the talents of our tech savvy people and start our own internet web of patriotic Americans.
Maybe “Americans for America” (AFA). A suggestion.
Never give an ego maniac praise… He’s good enough at giving it to himself as well as the News people. It only swells his head more and more than it already is.
I don’t know if I DESPISE Blowbama or A$$elrod more…it is a close call between these 2 brain dead LIBTARD extremists…A$$elrod is probaably the WORST form of (sub)human on the planet. That bast*rd pulls Jokebam’s strings, so the [puppet master oprobably wins for A$$hole of the century…..UCK Faxelrod, that POS SOB…
The Main Steam Media is now the Mein Fuhrer’s Propaganda Ministry. And they no longer think they need to hide it to fool people into thinking they are unbiased. The Low Information Voters are too oblivious to the World of Propaganda to even consider their Heroes on the airways might be Deceiving them or Lying to them or using them. They are Morons and like their place in the world of Moronville.
I used to think that people who were talking about the Zionists controlling countries, wars, currencies, were nutcases, then i watched this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roR3sSunqpo
David Axelrod is one of them…no wonder he gave me the creeps when i first saw his ugly face. Raum is too.