It’s biased media that needs regulating
Forget the cops. What we need is a commission to oversee the press.
So instead of just creating the Massachusetts Police Standards and Training Commission, lawmakers should establish a Massachusetts Reporters Standards and Training Commission, as well.
They could do it, or could have done it, in the bill that is aimed at curbing the use of force in making arrests, certifying cops and watering down qualified immunity, which shields cops from lawsuits.
It is a given that some cops are guilty of bad behavior, but no one has abused their once-respected profession more than the reporters of the establishment media.
On a given day, the left wing progressive “newsmen” in broadcast and print commit more “crimes” than the cops. But while the cops are, and will be, held accountable for bad behavior — fired, sued or jailed, sometimes all three — reporters get Pulitzer prizes.
Meanwhile, the criminals who attack the cops, and freely loot, torch and wreck U.S. cities under the guise of social justice, get a pass from the incompetent, sympathetic and intimidated Democratic mayors, as well as from a colluding media.
And the reporters get the prizes for their phony and slanted stories, like the New York Times and the Washington Post did, for stories that were nothing more than concocted lies on the Trump Russian collusion hoax.
And it was a hoax even though you would never know it, not the way revelations proving that the whole thing was nothing more than a devious plot put together by Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton Democrats — and their friends in the media — to take down Donald Trump. were ignored.
It was hit and run journalism. It was worse than that because sometimes a guilty driver will turn himself in.
Not the press. No establishment reporter from the Times, Post, CNN or anywhere else, has come forward to admit that they pushed a narrative about Russian collusion that was a lie.
Yes, they had sources in the intelligence community that anonymously leaked unverified information to them about Trump being a Vladimir Putin puppet, who owed his election to the Russians. But the information was false.
The Times published its initial major “bombshell” Russian collusion story in February 2017. It started the whole Robert Mueller investigation which, after three years, found nothing.
However, as revealed last week, no sooner did the Times run with its anonymously sourced story, than former top FBI official Peter Strzok, who ran the probe, wrote in notes that the story was filled with falsehoods.
In his notes released last week, Strzok, who also hated Trump, wrote that the Times story was “misleading and inaccurate.”
The headline of the Times story read: “Trump aides were in contact with senior Russian officials during campaign.”
Strzok wrote: “We have not seen evidence of any individuals affiliated with the Trump team” in contact with the Russians. He added, “We are unaware of any Trump advisors engaging in conversations with Russian intelligence officials.”
Trump was mocked by the press when he debunked the story. He said, “The leaks are real, the news is fake.” He was right, but the damage was done, and that was the point of it all.
“The damage this false story caused the Trump administration cannot underestimated,” said Mollie Hemingway, who writes about it in the Federalist.
Even today anti-Trumpers in and out of the media cling to and promote the false story of Trump collusion with the Russians despite all evidence to the contrary, along with additional evidence that the whole Russian dossier and collusion hoax can be traced back to the Hillary Clinton campaign for president.
“Never let the facts get in the way of a good story,” we reporters used to joke back in the day. Now that is the reality.
The Democrats and the media are going to hate and oppose Trump no matter what. He defeated Clinton who they all said was going to win. They lost and they lost badly. But instead of blaming themselves for their bias and incompetence, they blamed Trump. Now they are so consumed with hate that they see Trump not as the opponent but as the enemy.
It is as though they read from Mao’s “Little Red Book” where the Chinese Communist dictator said, “We should support whatever the enemy opposes, and oppose whatever the enemy supports.”
Regulate the cops? Sure. But first return the Pulitzers.