Big Hollywood
by John Nolte
Big Hollywood was given an exclusive first look at John Ziegler’s latest documentary covering the media coverage of the 2008 presidential election.
In journalistic terms it’s called a “tick-tock.” This is when the media crafts a news story that takes you behind the scenes of an event and breaks down, piece by linear piece, the individual acts which led up to that event. With “Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted,” director John Ziegler (”Blocking the Path to 9/11“) turns the art of the tick-tock around and aims it, with damning effect, squarely at the news media. The result is not a documentary, at least not for anyone who believes in truth, fairness or journalistic integrity – the result is a horror film.
If you expect Ziegler to build his case using easy targets like Keith Olbermann aping David Strathairn playing Edward R. Murrow, think again. Olbermann’s a bit player in this cinematic indictment, a clown. The real conspirators run the gamut of every network (cable and otherwise), and most of the major print and online publications. Maybe it’s not a horror story, after all. Maybe it’s something closer to an Agatha Christie mystery where everyone’s the murderer.
The victim, of course, is American journalism.
Filed under: Conservative Issues, Entertainment, Obamaworld, Politics, Sarah Palin | Tagged: Barack Obama, Conservative Issues, Conservative Movies, Entertainment, Media Bias, Obama, Obamaworld, Sarah Palin
Man, As an editor I would love to see this because A) it needs to be done and B) it is an easy target. When obama started showing up on the sports page regularly that is a sure sign of the orgy of media coverage gone wrong. That act alone shows the lack of objectivity as well as the need of the so called press to make the story and set the agenda… Read More rather then report on what is going on with objectivity. IT is to the point where you can not see a kids movie without getting spoon fed brain dead doctrines that should have died on the vine years ago if not for the seething disregard for personal responsibility. I for one have not watched TV for 10 years now. I make it and that is enough. I get my news form the web so I can choose what I see and when I see it. During the election process I do not see how anyone can watch the coverage and pretend there is any balance whatsoever.
Hey, C’mon here, Obama is against the fairness doctrine, so you guys have AM talk radio all afternoon, then Obama gets the rest of the media 24/7. Sounds fair to me, plus, he’s got the internet jump on Y’all too. It is only a function of the free expression of speech, if you don’t get favorable coverage, it’s your own fault because your not sharp enough to figure out how to develop a message or Govern in a way that the majority of the American people find favorable. If you were running a Corporation and decided the customers were conspired against you, in the tank for your competitor, what would you do? You certainly wouldn’t cry, bitch and moan like you do toward the media, face it, keep up the strategy you have now and you will be out of business.