James O'Keefe on G.K. Chesterton and "The Free Press"

"Video courtesy of American Chesterton Society and Doug Jackson." http://chesterton.org/

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[sihotang1975]

great speech!!

[traffety]

He deserves the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.

[Kurtlane]

And of course the dead, unless they are Palestinian dead, have no faces, no names, no relatives. Does anyone even know that the name of the victim of the latest bombing in Jerusalem a few days ago was Mary Gardner, that she was a Scottish woman, a Christian, 59 years old, thart she died in a hospital?

I tried to point it all out to my journalism teacher, but he looked at me as if I was lying.

[Kurtlane]

What does "moderate" mean? It's the same creature as "activist," except he has already done his killing and is already dead, usually killed by Israeli defense forces. So the media may say, "Israelis are only interested in war, they deliberately kill moderates."

But when Israeli Jews are killed, it's "package (or bag) exploded in a crowded area" Those strange packages and bags. They just walk on their own into crowded areas and explode.

(cont.)

[Kurtlane]

Every time I visit Israel, turn on the radio and hear something else, I feel like I've just escaped from a Nazi country.

Take the term "activist," which James O'Keefe lauds here. To me, "activist" means someone with a knife, an axe, a gun or a bomb, about to use it to kill people. Or someone with a suicide belt, sacrificing his own life to kill others. Particularly to kill little children. As someone says, "don't approach an activist when he activates. It's not a pretty scene."

(cont.)

[Kurtlane]

The worst thing: I felt that my journalism teacher (at a local community college) was actually one of the better ones. That others - those at higher positions – are even worse. Far worse.

My particular area of interest is coverage of Israel in the media. (Notice that I didn't limit it to Arab-Israeli conflict. It's the media that does that.) In this area, lies and evil nonsense are on the same level as the stuff about Jewish people in the Nazi media.

(cont.)

[Kurtlane]

There was one article where there was a phrase "Saudi Arabian peninsula." I pointed out to my journalism teacher that that was incorrect, that it should've been "Arabian peninsula." This got him excited, he said, "Please call them and tell them it's Arabian peninsula." But when I tried to point out that there is a ton of other, far more serious things wrong with that article, he just looked at me as if I were lying.

(cont.)

[Kurtlane]

The one thing that probably upset me the most when I was taking journalism class was the insistence on some very high journalistic morality, while writing lies and evil biased nonsense.

So what journalism's high morality amounts to is a set of extra spelling and grammar rules on top of regular English spelling and grammar rules.

(cont.)

[Kurtlane]

I took a journalism class, and I couldn't last for a semester.

Such close-mindedness I've never seen in my life.

[timDOGcrane555]

@gregpphoto Genius, the Lucky Charms stunt, was done in order to prove a point. The outrageous, ridiculous PC tactics of the socialist run university system. And it was successful.

[timDOGcrane555]

@ISUCN I agree, Good job James!

[timDOGcrane555]

@tkandme3 "Okeefe should be shot" wow you sound just like Stalin! Another prime example of the "civility" of the leftist.