This is just a note to let all of my internet friends know I will be away for a few days and likely will not have internet access. I enjoy getting your e-mail communications and just didn’t want you to think I was simply not responding. I should be back on-line by Thursday evening. Ann
Category: blogging
American newspapers deceive foreign media, and they don’t like it
Mark Steyn has a post on The Corner, Don’t Blame Us, Blame the Newspaper We Copied It Out Of, that deserves attention.
The USS Neverdock notices an emerging global trend: newspapers suckered by the Washington Post and the New York Times. Down under, the Sydney Morning Herald has retracted its “original” “report” of the Van Jones resignation:
A week ago, the Herald ran a story which, in its essence, was not true. The paper did not know this. It was the unwitting victim of a distortion created at The Washington Post, which produced the original story.
We’ve commented frequently on reports in the media that leave out the most relevant and interesting facts. Ann has posted on any number of puff pieces on refugees in local newspapers in which the reporters don’t or won’t look below the surface. Those who do real reporting are heroes, and we’ve given them lots of space, most notably Brian Mosely and the Shelbyville (Tennesee) Times-Gazette.
Mark Steyn mentions a second retraction, this one from the Irish Times which was snookered by a New York Times story. And here’s his perceptive bottom line:
Of course, neither the Sydney Morning Herald nor the Irish Times are “unwitting victims” of the Washington Post and New York Times. It’s their choice to copy blindly any slab of hooey appearing in the Post and Times that happens to suit their prejudices without checking it for themselves. As the Neverdock points out, if you can’t do as well as some blogger using Google, maybe you shouldn’t be in the news business.
That’s exactly right. We get most of our information here at Refugee Resettlement Watch from poking around the Internet. Once we got started, of course we began getting information directly from people in the know, so that in some ways we became somewhat more like traditional reporters. (I should say Ann is, since I don’t do much original reporting.)
When you look at all the recent stories that the mainstream media have ignored or minimized, you do have to wonder why these media outlets exist at all. The Van Jones scandal and resignation, the undercover films of ACORN employees encouraging what they thought was a brothel using underaged girls, the huge Washington march on Saturday — these were covered well and thoroughly by websites, bloggers and Fox News — and little else.
Blogger power! The blogger who first spotted Communist Van Jones is from New Zealand
Update September 11th: After reading this post go to Family Security Matters and learn more about “coercive utopians,” here.
I’m going to keep nagging my friends and fellow freedom fighters to start their own blogs and dig for the facts and expose them because the mainstream media has given up its investigative role leaving the job wide open. Keith Olbermann has announced he is going after Glenn Beck over the Van Jones affair but it seems to me that he will have a heck of a time going after every blogger around the world. The guy who first discovered self-avowed revolutionary Van Jones is from New Zealand! Thank you Trevor Loudon!
From Cliff Kincaid at Accuracy in Media:
Loudon tells me, “I began to investigate Van Jones after seeing several separate pieces of information. I first came across the name in the mid 1990s in a New Zealand socialist publication which had a small clip about Van Jones-a Yale educated lawyer involved in STORM-Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement. The name stuck.“
While researching the far-left think Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), which Loudon considers the Obama administration’s “ideas bank,” Loudon found a piece by IPS staffer Chuck Collins recommending Van Jones for a top government job. A September 26, 2008 article, posted on the IPS website by Chuck Collins, offered 22 names they thought would make suitable appointments for an Obama administration. He included, “Van Jones, of the Ella Baker Center, to direct the Commerce Department’s new ‘green jobs initiative.'”
Remember that this was before the election.
I’ll be adding Loudon’s New Zeal to our blogroll and start visiting daily! Here in the US, Gateway Pundit did lots of great work on this too.
What has all this got to do with refugees and immigrants? The Open Borders crowd is aligned completely with the Communists* (aka Progressives) now seeded throughout our government (Van Jones is the tip of the iceberg), and with the mainstream environmental groups, unions, church groups (the religious Left) resettling refugees and even some big businesses (for a full list of the Open Borders lobby, go here). The Alinsky strategy calls for the poor and angry to be the fuel for the revolution—immigrants fit the bill nicely. Immigrants are Alinsky’s “Have-nots” in the battle with the “Haves.” See previous posts here and here on the subject. For everything we have written on Alinsky go to our category ‘community destabilization’ and scroll back to the beginning.
* Readers, I’m of the age where the word Communist is almost as bad a word as, well you know! I grew up being discouraged from even uttering the “C” word in describing anyone, but since Jones and others are now using the word about themselves, I guess its o.k. for us to use it too! Marxist, anarchist, revolutionary are all back in use!
Everyone must write a blog! Like this one in Nashville!
Someone just now brought this great blog to my attention—it’s called ACT West Nashville. ACT is the American Congress for Truth and Nashville is fortunate to have a very active ACT chapter!
It reminds me that I haven’t done my harangue recently to tell you all you must write your own blog. They are simple to set up and you only need to write when you feel like it. But, they are so important in gathering the FACTS especially since there are very few investigative reporters left these days. You become the reporter!
Did you see Glenn Beck last Friday? He told all of us to gather facts, dig through documents, look for connections and expose them without fear! The mainstream media isn’t going to do it, so we have to!
Great job ACT West Nashville!
We can’t help!
Although we have clearly posted in the column on the righthand side of this page that we are NOT a government resettlement agency, we are getting comments with increasing frequency from people all over the world in difficult situations and most are looking to get into the US. I’m sorry but we can’t help.