Friday - September 01, 2006

Liberal Bias In The Military Press?

If our troops think they’re getting unbiased reporting in the military’s newspapers, Air Force Times, Army Times and Navy Times, I hate to disillusion them. Melanie Morgan of MoveAmericaForward discovered a miserable Leftist rat in the reporter staff at one of those publications. She has the full story at WorldNet Daily, as well as contact information for this cretin and his editor. A phone call may be in order ....

Liberal Bias In The Military Press?

The bias of the media isn’t just at the major television networks and newspapers, but extends further then you might think. Last week the pro-troop organization Move America Forward, where I serve as chairman, was informed by two reporters of Air Force Times that they would not accept future PR materials from us.

I was dumbfounded. In the journalism business, it’s almost unheard of to ban a group from sending you their news releases; let alone for a military publication to tell a pro-troop nonprofit group that their material would not be accepted.

In a voicemail message to one of our staffers, reporter Bryant Jordan made it clear that he didn’t want to be bothered with news releases from “somebody on the right” who “is supporting the troops”:

This is Bryant Jordan, Air Force Times, umm look, we’re just not interested in getting this stuff, we get stuff all the time, I’m not, just just because we write about the military doesn’t mean we’re gonna snatch up every column by somebody on the right who’s ya know is supporting the troops. (You can listen to the audio clip of Mr. Jordan’s message here.)

Jordan also wrote e-mails to our staff criticizing Move America Forward and citing material from the Center for Media and Democracy, a left-wing organization described as “a counterculture public relations effort disguised as an independent media organization.”

Odd that someone from a military publication would find himself of like mind with such an organization, no?

But you see, Air Force Times and its sister publications Amy Times, Navy Times and Marine Times are not published by the military, but in fact are published by Gannett, the media outfit that owns USA Today and a number of local television stations around the nation.

- More on this blatant bias from Melanie Morgan here ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 09/01/2006 at 02:58 PM   
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