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Special to PTBC: Orson Scott Card’s “Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights?”

I asked Orson Scott Card for his permission to post his article, “Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights?” here at PTBC, and he granted us that permission.  I’ll be featuring it and referring to it often. 

It’s a tough article—tough on the media. 

It’s one of the best pieces I’ve read about the financial “meltdown”, as it’s become known, because it reveals the truth not just about the roots of the crisis, but about the corruption of the media and their lies about it.  It’s about Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac and those who were among the biggest recipients of campaign cash from them (subtle hint: Barack Obama).  It’s about Democrats and various other liberals in Congress—Nancy Pelosi, Chris Dodd, and others— who perpetrated the mess starting from the Clinton administration.  And moreover it’s about the liberal media which has in effect lied through omission of reporting, at least reporting honestly.  And how they’re deceptively laying blame on Bush and McCain and Republicans generally. 

And it pleads with them to stop.  Stop lying.

“…But right now, you are consenting to or actively promoting a big fat lie — that the housing crisis should somehow be blamed on Bush, McCain, and the Republicans. You have trained the American people to blame everything bad — even bad weather — on Bush, and they are responding as you have taught them to…”

And it’s about the media and their, well, incessant, pathological anti-Sarah Palin, anti-conservative coverage.  In it, he calls it like it is:  the media are liars.  They’re corrupt. 

“…Barack Obama is just another politician, and not a very wise one. He has revealed his ignorance and naivete time after time — and you have swept it under the rug, treated it as nothing.

Meanwhile, you have participated in the borking of Sarah Palin, reporting savage attacks on her for the pregnancy of her unmarried daughter — while you ignored the story of John Edwards’s own adultery for many months.

So I ask you now: Do you have any standards at all? Do you even know what honesty means?

Is getting people to vote for Barack Obama so important that you will throw away everything that journalism is supposed to stand for? …”

Coincidentally, I’m writing a feature length article of my own on what I’m calling a corrupt media.  I’ll post it soon. 

Orson Scott Card is of course a famous and decorated author, but interestingly (considering this article), a registered Democrat—a liberal on most political issues—so this article should possess some extra heft—beyond what you’d afford my daily rants on what I repeatedly refer to as the lies and corruption of the liberal media.

Read it and make comments here in this blog entry about it.

And be sure to see other entries in my Category: The liberal-left ruining the free-market, capitalist economy

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