For Baltimoreans looking for the latest poop on what's hot on television, the Baltimore Sun's TV critic's column is not the place to go. As this column shows, he'd rather slam Fox news programming he finds abhorent to his political agenda. His marque almost suggests his alternate agenda.
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The article: http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/zontv/2009/09/fox_news_acorn_lawsuit_breitba.html#more
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The Rightminded response:
Baltimoreans must find it sad to note that David Zurawik, a left-wing activist wanna-be masquerading as a television columnist for the Baltimore Sun, would weigh in strongly against the brilliant sting operation investigative filmmakers, Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe, conducted against several ACORN offices starting with their office in Baltimore.
In his column, Zurawik blasts Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly for airing sympathetic segments for the young filmmakers and the website, Breitbart.com on the potential legal issues they face as ACORN announced its intention to seek “justice” based on Maryland surveillance law. In Zuarawik’s column, not only has he acted as prosecutor and jury finding these heroic citizens guilty of entrapment and slamming their brilliant work, in his twisted logic somehow ACORN comes across as the victim not that they are flailing away in desperation trying anything that might reduce the trouble they’re in.
If what O’Keefe and Giles did was so awful and the revelations they presented about how ACORN offices go about their day-to-day business, then why would even those left wing politicians most inclined to support ACORN cutoff support for their programs virtually across the board from the Federal government?
Only in Zurawik’s severely compromised left-wing imagination could he see O’Keefe’s and Gile’s defense as something from planet Bizarro. He further added that responsible news organizations have abandoned undercover stings including “60 Minutes” abandoning such methods and that legal action had been taken against ABC investigative reporter, John Stossel. Somehow, his attempts to portray such investigative techniques as abhorrent and being abandoned on some higher grounds, even Zurawik couldn’t conceal the true agenda for mainstream news reluctance to go underground, fear of lawsuits.
Baltimoreans from all walks of life should be incensed that a so called television critic posing as editorial columnist would defend ACORN so stridently. Few cities suffer from the blight of urban decay and all the issues which feed it like Baltimore. The need for effective community-based assistance is desperately needed to help Baltimore’s plight, but few organizations have taken advantage of their charge to serve the community in so many corrupt contexts as ACORN Baltimore which among other things broke into and seized foreclosed houses occupying them opening taunting the legal process. One has to wonder how much taxpayer and charitable dollars this office has squandered on illegitimate pursuits.
In Zurawik’s world, ACORN is the exploited not the exploiter.
It’s a sad reflection on the Baltimore Sun, a failing big city newspaper that is losing circulation and readership, has become so out of touch with the community it claims to represent. A generation ago, this paper was one of the most respected newspapers in the country not only serving the local community well but being one of the most trusted voices on national and international issues. However, the philanthropic local owners, the Abell family, sold the paper to the Los Angeles Times and quickly the whole image of the paper transformed from sophisticated and informed to ultra-Liberal and trendy. Some hoped that when the Chicago Tribune’s parent company purchased the Los Angeles Times, they might restore some quality to the Sun, but such was not the case as “the Trib” has been facing severe financial issues of its own and is currently in Chapter 11 status.
Despite the rise of the Internet, bloggers, and other alternate media sources, an intelligent local newspaper can still serve a vital role in metropolitan areas such as Baltimore. Surely, some of the Sun’s challenges are based on their product becoming obsolete on some levels, but their pandering to far left ideologies and miserable journalistic quality has driven many readers away.
Baltimore needs a good source for local news. Between most of the city’s television news operations and the Sun, the metropolitan area is not well-served and those who misrepresent their roles like Zurawik provide perfect fodder for the paper’s critics as we are noting here.
One would think that the journalistic community would rally behind O’Keefe and Giles and see attacks on them as an attack on their profession.
In his column, Zurawik blasts Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly for airing sympathetic segments for the young filmmakers and the website, Breitbart.com on the potential legal issues they face as ACORN announced its intention to seek “justice” based on Maryland surveillance law. In Zuarawik’s column, not only has he acted as prosecutor and jury finding these heroic citizens guilty of entrapment and slamming their brilliant work, in his twisted logic somehow ACORN comes across as the victim not that they are flailing away in desperation trying anything that might reduce the trouble they’re in.
If what O’Keefe and Giles did was so awful and the revelations they presented about how ACORN offices go about their day-to-day business, then why would even those left wing politicians most inclined to support ACORN cutoff support for their programs virtually across the board from the Federal government?
Only in Zurawik’s severely compromised left-wing imagination could he see O’Keefe’s and Gile’s defense as something from planet Bizarro. He further added that responsible news organizations have abandoned undercover stings including “60 Minutes” abandoning such methods and that legal action had been taken against ABC investigative reporter, John Stossel. Somehow, his attempts to portray such investigative techniques as abhorrent and being abandoned on some higher grounds, even Zurawik couldn’t conceal the true agenda for mainstream news reluctance to go underground, fear of lawsuits.
Baltimoreans from all walks of life should be incensed that a so called television critic posing as editorial columnist would defend ACORN so stridently. Few cities suffer from the blight of urban decay and all the issues which feed it like Baltimore. The need for effective community-based assistance is desperately needed to help Baltimore’s plight, but few organizations have taken advantage of their charge to serve the community in so many corrupt contexts as ACORN Baltimore which among other things broke into and seized foreclosed houses occupying them opening taunting the legal process. One has to wonder how much taxpayer and charitable dollars this office has squandered on illegitimate pursuits.
In Zurawik’s world, ACORN is the exploited not the exploiter.
It’s a sad reflection on the Baltimore Sun, a failing big city newspaper that is losing circulation and readership, has become so out of touch with the community it claims to represent. A generation ago, this paper was one of the most respected newspapers in the country not only serving the local community well but being one of the most trusted voices on national and international issues. However, the philanthropic local owners, the Abell family, sold the paper to the Los Angeles Times and quickly the whole image of the paper transformed from sophisticated and informed to ultra-Liberal and trendy. Some hoped that when the Chicago Tribune’s parent company purchased the Los Angeles Times, they might restore some quality to the Sun, but such was not the case as “the Trib” has been facing severe financial issues of its own and is currently in Chapter 11 status.
Despite the rise of the Internet, bloggers, and other alternate media sources, an intelligent local newspaper can still serve a vital role in metropolitan areas such as Baltimore. Surely, some of the Sun’s challenges are based on their product becoming obsolete on some levels, but their pandering to far left ideologies and miserable journalistic quality has driven many readers away.
Baltimore needs a good source for local news. Between most of the city’s television news operations and the Sun, the metropolitan area is not well-served and those who misrepresent their roles like Zurawik provide perfect fodder for the paper’s critics as we are noting here.
One would think that the journalistic community would rally behind O’Keefe and Giles and see attacks on them as an attack on their profession.
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Rightminded Fellow applauds radio station, WBAL-AM, "Maryland's News Talk Sports Station" for its excellent reporting on the ACORN scandal from the investigation's inception. Their over-the-air news reporting and excellent website help fill the gap left by an inferior Baltimore Sun product.
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