Good News: Ten Examples Of Journalistic Integrity

[Ro8922]

Well done America you never cease to amaze me. There are astoundingly intelligent individuals on your shores and yet these clowns are beamed into living rooms through 'news programmes'. Good luck.

[YoungIvyScholar]

Just because you like what they say doesn't mean they're being true and factual...

[riley1588]

ive said it before and ill say it again,if everyone stopped watching fox they would have no veiwers,its not fucking rocket science no veiwers no air time,ged it doh.stop moaning about it when your still watching,we dont need fox so get everyone you know to boycot fox and put them out of buisness.but no youll keep watching and keep moaning,its so easy to get rid of fox corrupt news so just do it

[onebaud]

We do not torture, but then we torture! The right wing can screw any words up, but they are mean, inhumane, ungodly sinners that will pay to what ever good there is in the universe.

[TruthJockey]

Add Jack Cafferty & Lewis Black...and of course the satire of Jon Stewart & Colbert.

[SkinnyWmn69]

Only in America would EMPATHY be seen as a bad trait in a person, especially a leader. Empathy simply means the ability to put yourself in someone else shoes...it SHOULD be one of the most important traits of a leader.

[JonasPlanck]

I'm sure most of these guys received a stern talking to from their owners... Reason has no place in mainstream reporting, if you want to keep your jobs, you better stick to the talking points and stop trying to interject rationality...

[FiswaT]

Fuck Fox, CNN, NBC, ABC...etc

[roynexus6]

Left lies. Thanks for showing this.

[cshoem3793]

good for Media Matters acknowledging Bill O. While his history is undeniable, Bill has his moments and tries to be fair. Instead of ignoring these moments out of blind hate, like many who disagree with him do, we need to be fair and give him credit and judge him on a case by case basis. Props to MMfA

[iLoveSalami]

@cshoem3793

I agree with you that Bill O has his moments but exclusively judging him on a case to case basis would still show that he has a surplus of bad moments. Any fair analysis of Bill O and his journalistic career would undoubtedly show that he is an idiot first and a professional of journalistic integrity second.

[gabb05]

We must understand that in this day n age ratings are all the so called journalists care about... in this video you can get a glance of their true selves, but telling the truth isn´t "fun and exciting"... sensationalism rules the media... Fortunately for me i don't waste my time gettin misinfomed and rather watch Jon stewart lol... he's the most reliable and objective "reporter" on tv, which is sad cause he's not even a journalist.

[TomAndJanieBrode]

It is balance. MSNBC did it to Bush as FOX is doing it to Obama. Its called POLITICAL ACCOUNTIBILITY. Without it, our gov't would do any damn thing it wants. Fox CRUSHES the ratings for all other shows. Check ratings people. We watch what we want to watch. We have the remote and the people have spoken.

[spiderwebb33]

There is a difference between the media trying to keep administrations honest and accountable and lying/fear-mongering in an effort to take down an administration.

[KarmicOmen]

Shut up WHORE-aldo. Give me a chair, he needs another beating.

[InKa4484]

Occasionally i watch Cnn and Fox News both make me laugh histerically, One thing i've never understood is how some people say Cnn is liberal. I guess it's because the pundits act like democrats and don't tell you everything you should know. Fox news has better filler reports with actual journalism but for the prime time and headline stories they general say incredibly stupid biased things with a lot of shouting, i thought that was entertaining untill i found out a lot of people believe them.

[KarmicOmen]

On CNN, I watch Lou Dobbs ... that's pretty much it.

[ThatCriticDouche]

CNN is not that bad, though. Some segments I do enjoy, such as the Situation Room and Rick Sanchez (you either love him or hate him). The thing about CNN is that it isn't "biased" as a news station, but the people there have their own views. If they were Liberal, do you really think Lou Dobbs would have his own segment? Come on -_-

And FOX never had true journalism. At least CNN has some sort of objectivity in their reporting.

[AmazingLogic]

The thing is you did bad reporting yourself, when you made one on Beck about Acorn. you did not show everything.

you lead the viewer on. you lied. now you want to make vide like this??????

[Squatchmichael]

Honesty, and factual reporting of information as opposed to spin, is the one thing that separates the news from pure entertainment. Americans yearn for another Edward R. Murrow type too inform people, not invoke emotions. I also reluctantly must applaud the few FOX reports show on this video that are honest. I am presently surprised.

[iakny]

Shepard Smith is the only man on Fox news with journalistic integrity. O'Reilly has his moments.

[odell2000]

thier should be more of this word call truth in the media, as people we condem people like Rush the racist & Glenn Beck the retard, who spread lies about people when they have no evidence at all

[bsnxenogear]

Thanks. That made me smile

[JohnnyBB82]

While Olbermann is very partisan, I really don't see him or Maddow flagrantly lie about people, like Rush going on and on about Obama "not having" a birth cirtificate, or Michael J. Fox not taking his meds to win a sympathy vote for Claire McCaskill.... That's pretty outrageous. If you can name a Maddow or Olbermann statement that can equal those Rush statements, I will not argue...

[mutefx]

@JohnnyBB82

The other thing is, I can't recall too many times I've heard Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, O'Reilly etc. have an ACTUAL debate with an opposing viewpoint, if ever.

I mean reasoned, courteous discourse. Rachel Maddow excels at bringing on her partisan opposites and then actually allowing them to speak and deliver their point. It seems like the conservatives won't play unless they get to control the conversation (and the editing room).

[JohnnyBB82]

Media Matters points out many fallacies on the left and the right, as I've seen many times, they call MSNBC out a lot.

[mccowenwl]

Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.

That is from their "About Us" page. They will only point stuff out if it is conservative.

[JohnnyBB82]

Ok, well then why do they also point out fallacies by Chris Matthews and others on MSNBC, or New York Times? Seems to me that Media Matters is necessary because all the lies seem to come from the right...

[JohnnyBB82]

Irrefutable.

[bertski909]

I love this

[manashima]

Your confusing yourself. Just because Rush, Olberman, and Maddow have similar professions doesn't mean they use the same tactics of spreading lies as truth.

Difference between Rush and Olberman is that Olberman can back up everything he says with facts and sources.

Rush outright lies, and even republicans admit that he does. He'll never become a political analyst for TV because of it. Radio he can say whatever he wants, but he'll get killed on TV because of his slander and dishonesty.

[WashMitt]

Added to Favorites.

[stucker0]

wow thanks for the great video. I think we do spend so much time critizing the media, when for the most part they do a good job. Americans get lazy sometimes and want things spoon fed to them, sometimes you gotta do some research on your own

[thebrainsquid]

We're never going to agree on this subject so I think I'm going to quit now. I don't really have the passion to keep an argument going on here in the comments. Thanks for keeping it relatively civil though, with the exception being you're claim that I'm intolerant of opposing view points. On that, I would like to say I wasn't speaking about everyone who I disagree with. When someone knowingly makes false claims, I consider that an illegitimate opinion. And I do understand both sides do that.

[biguy617]

Helen Thomas is a example of Journalistic Integrity

[thebrainsquid]

Most of his offering is illegitimate opinion and runs his show dishonestly. I understand he is a pundit and not a reporter but most of his supportive listeners don't. He knows he influences their beliefs and he exploits that. Many people who bash Rush do, in fact, listen to him for some amount of time. And being a media watchdog doesn't make you liberal group. Rush is simply propaganda and they're trying to expose that to the people he's exploiting with his partisan bickering.

[emphaticapathy]

So in your world there is only ideology?

And facts (irrespective of what they are) can be used to serve any ideology...

Isn't this a definition of demagogy?

[emphaticapathy]

But I'm not liberal or conservative. I have no vested interest in either. And i happen to think objective reality exists and there are ways of independently analysing the merits of particualr politicians.

Something I have noticed with Americans is a reluctance to see anything outside of narrow ideological confines.

The fact that you think the extent of Obamas errors depends on your relative political position ratrher than what he has ACTUALLY done is a testament to this point.

[emphaticapathy]

I think, to be honest, there has been less to criticise from Obama, though recent events have led to a load of criticism from liberals (of course the whole time conservatives have been throwing out fear mongering warnings about socialism, fascism, marxism etc)

I'm not overly familiar with the American media, being from England, but I have noticed a strong tendency for the conversative commentators to be more demagogic, ideological and downright manipulative.

[emphaticapathy]

I think that in general liberals are more fact conscious. The role of the media in a democracy is to give an independent analysis of the facts for the public to use.

Thus far I have seen many liberal commentators criticise Obamas positions, which is more than conservatives did during the bush years, They were merely apologists and cheerleaders.

Equality in news coverage does not mean always framing discussions in terms of two equal positions.

[emphaticapathy]

I think it's the conservatives who need attacking. They are by far the loudest and most obnoxious contingent in the American media - and they demonstably twist facts.

Sure Maddow has an 'agenda', but journalistic integrity is being honest about your motivations and using objective facts to back that up. There is no such thing as objectivity, nor could there be.

A purely objective analysis of war is merely body counts...surely some human compassion and required as well.

[emphaticapathy]

Show me evidence that any of these clips are factually inaccurate....go on, show me.

Journalistic integrity is using the facts and not ideology, and each of these clips is an example of that.

Ideological journalism ignores the facts and shouts opinions.

[Thespartan18]

Oreilly has flashes of journalistic integrity. He has such a big ego that he is not willing to submit to the conservative talking points if he disagrees. Granted he is a conservative but he is not as much of slave to the coservative line as say a Hannity or a Glenn Beck. Similarly Olbermann can be this way as well but usually his breaks with Obama and the DNC iare because they are not going as far left as he would like.

[pgunn01]

Hannity and Beck arn't really journalists, neither are O'Reilly or Olbermann. We don't expect (and don't get) journalistic integrity from any of them.

[Teslastyle]

I think this is a good video. I would like to see more videos like this from media matters that reward journalists for good work.

If these clips were representative of what our media was like all the rest of the time we would have a much more intelligent nation.

[jwinter228]

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers" -Thomas Jefferson. I think this still applies to watching most of the stuff on TV.

As far as the video, I don't get it - some of these clips do show journalistic integrity but it appears as if it's more about if Media Matters agrees with what they say or not.

[thebrainsquid]

While that can be true if you look at it that way, it seemed to me that all of the things they showed came down to unbiased common sense without trying to spin it into any direction. Unless you take into account the Limbaugh part, but that man is exactly correct, Limbaugh's show is usually in poor taste.

[dlifeon]

He (O-Ba-Ma) mouths Axelrodinthheads

words so well.

[dlifeon]

media doesn't matter for America.

[Amy31415]

Shocked that O'Reilly made this list, but damn, I guess he is honest every now and then!

[republicrat1]

the Minister of misinformation Gibbs and the MSM kissing the Marxist ass

[Lizardruler]

Important news > watch?v=OJvSLCuilyA

[mightydio]

10 exmaples of media kissing Obama's ass.. big surprise?

[Vermifax]

You're kind of a dumbass. You must be a Republican.

[bobhardball]

I am Conservative but have to admit: This is a terrific job by MediaMatters.

[jrubin22]

we tortured to fabricate a link between 9/11 and Iraq

[CommonSenseJoe]

We needed no link between 9/11 and Iraq. We had more than enough cause to remove Saddam for failing to comply with the cease-fire agreement and for attempting to gain WMDs.

[jrubin22]

obviously not, or Bush wouldn't have said there was a link

[CommonSenseJoe]

Whether there was or wasn't, it did not matter.

[jrubin22]

it does matter, Saddam was a cork on a bottle of extremism that Bush uncorked w/o ANY understanding of the Suuni/Shia issues he was lighting the fuse under and that are now breeding terrorists and training terrorist at an unprecedented rate. Coincidentally, those terrorist give the RNC the only threat they pose to the Dems. The terrorists and the RNC will now both benefit politically from another attack on the US. That matters.

[justcallmesoso]

well, presidents should not lie...

[privatepadilla]

Excellent video, Im gonna scribe in hopes you make more stuff with this level of quality...

[GreatSatan1]

Ha Ha Ha

Media matters thinks everyone is stupid.

Well, not EVERYONE is stupid.

[Beccathepromomami]

I like this video. It shows that both sides CAN be HONESTLY fair and balanced - and report whole truths.

Now we need more of that all around...

5 stars!

[TheWayISeeIt1982]

It was George Bush who Nationalized the Banks, why don't they call him a Socialist?

[GreatSatan1]

George Bush was a socialist. There. You happy now? It was a mistake when Bush did it. And it is a mistake when Obama continues doing it X4.

[idlefritz]

Good selection.

@Pratchettgaiman

Bill O. has lightened up since Beck came on the scene. Beck is the cautionary tale for all of the other windbag hate peddlers. Hannity, Savage and Rush remain unconvinced so far...

[CommonSenseJoe]

Media matters doing this is like having Bill Clinton make a dating video. Rush does not lie.

[MST2k]

Keep on drinking that coolaid, Joe.

[CommonSenseJoe]

If you believe that media matters is about integrity in journalism, the question is what are you smoking?

[michael2649]

Not even when he accused Parkinsons sufferers of faking their symptoms?

[CommonSenseJoe]

He did not accused anyone of anything. He mentioned that Fox had previously stated that he would NOT take his medication so as to appear worse than he was. Michael J. Fox was the one lying about the whole stem cell debate in Congress. Fetal stem cells are showing little promise as adult stem cells are showing great promise in cure illnesses. The lying is done by the media to create a controversy when none exists.

[michael2649]

Could you cite your source of the statement you claim Fox made?

[HerculesRockefellerr]

Good vid

[petehjr1]

Whoa, Bill O resisted the chance to bash Acorns dead horse and *sputter* spoke the truth, maybe the rapture is coming after all.

[WKaliberr]

I like shep smith

[Pratchettgaiman]

It's weeeeeeeeeeeeird to see Billo showing journalistic integrity.

[terrence0258]

Media Matters is the best when it comes to watching the watchdog.

[biguy617]

Fox news has no Integrity

[soulfuluniverse]

This is so bizarre. In this day in age 'Journalistic Integrity' sounds more like myth from the past. And above all, to even see examples of Fox News in this video makes it all the more surreal. But in general I assume that these fragments of so called 'Journalistic Integrity' are far too sparse and too isolated for them have much meaning for the integrity of the journalist. If the journalists would dare to show substantially more instances of such integrity, then they should get praised for it.

[DemonizingTheEnemy]

Journalistic Integrity ?? its Fox News for Fuck Sakes -stop posting this crap !!!

[mightydio]

10 examples of Obama ass kissing.. so what?

[CannibalShinobi]

thanks for not watching

[rmonclairwalker]

Truth and integrity are antonyms when describing the fox news network for the most part. Great job mediamatters because it does!

[christian1600]

Good Journalism to MMFA: Reading off liberal talking points.

[GoggleEyedOne]

we should celebrate & encourage good journalism. here in Australia we have the Walkley awards for journalism and news media. it's good to see the likes of Bill O'Reilly on here too - conservatives and liberals can both play a part in a TRULY "fair and balanced" news media.

[MrXfromPlanetX]

Google "Zbigniew Brzezinski: How Jimmy Carter and I Started the Mujahideen" and you will get an idea why people in Europe hate the US government. They don't necessarily hate us, but they do hate our government.

Media Matters, I would also like to suggest following Glenn Greenwald's column on Salon(.)com

Counterpunch(.)org is really good too. Check out Chris Floyd's "Torture, War and the Imperial Project The Fatal Thread" This dated April 22, 2009. One of the first to cover the issue.

[Reqrezentin]

Of course it is casual to hate Americans here in Europe.. We hate you.

[hyperman514]

You should do this more often, it's excellent !

[captfoster1]

I chalk up nearly all corporate owned right-wing moments of clarity on being nothing more than the simple truth coming home to roost, if only for the briefest of moments.

I'll give kudo's of course when expected, but in the case of BillO... I recall a few segments where Billy would actually make the claim that ACORN was a major player and was the sole reason for the breakdown of our elections being fair and impartial... PATHETIC!

[cat00012000]

People standing up for what's right - how rare is that? It's too rare. I'll say that. Wouldn't it be nice if it was the normal thing. People then could really be proud of this country. The people that like to show their pride now are people that are bringiing this country down. Extremists have been really proud. We need something that serious people can be proud about.

[bombonyou]

good feature.

[bushputz]

The problem is, for every instance of journalistic integrity in the corporate media, there are THOUSANDS of cases where they obfuscate, mislead, omit, and out and out lie to serve their own interests.

[carrierexchange]

I'm shocked

[thanks4tuningin]

me too

[JustAManInAMask]

At 1:30, how come the way all right wing pundits like to yell as loud as they can to get their point across?

[bakusho]

Granted, this is Bill Cunningham we're talking about here. I don't think he has a volume-control knob.