“Reporting News” Not Part of Their Agenda

In a bid to squelch any scrutiny on their bias and motive, the press tend to armor themselves with claims of their own political detachment. When caught out many claim that the selectiveness of their reporting has a “social role.”

Nonsense. Most of the European press are little more than political hit-men.

By a vote of 66 to 54, the annual delegate's meeting of Britain's largest trade union for journalists called for "a boycott of Israeli goods similar to those boycotts in the struggles against apartheid South Africa led by trade unions, and [for] the [Trades Union Congress] to demand sanctions be imposed on Israel by the British government."

Some of the union's 40,000 members decried its "trendy lefty" agenda. Other motions before the four-day meeting in Birmingham, which ends Sunday, included condemnations of the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and support for Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez.

Yet only “some” noticed that the press had an agenda. Given the divine illumination you can feel coming off of their own Code of Conduct, the very notion that it sould even get as far as showing any kind of evidence of the presence an agenda means that they are long past the point of just seeking out flaws, they are in a catastrophic state of failure as a profession.

A journalist shall at all times defend the principle of the freedom of the press and other media in relation to the collection of information and the expression of comment and criticism. He/she shall strive to eliminate distortion, news suppression and censorship.

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A journalist shall strive to ensure that the information he/she disseminates is fair and accurate, avoid the expression of comment and conjecture as established fact and falsification by distortion, selection or misrepresentation.

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No journalist shall knowingly cause or allow the publication or broadcast of a photograph that has been manipulated unless that photograph is clearly labelled as such. Manipulation does not include normal dodging, burning, colour balancing, spotting, contrast adjustment, cropping and obvious masking for legal or safety reasons.

They are simply hopeless.