Regarding recent postings/articles on DailyKos, in which it is made clear that two of the top NBC News People, are abdicating their responsibility to tell the news, and inform the viewers. To those reports, and others, I say, "Shame on you, Chuck Todd and David Gregory!"
In Journalism courses, in college, we learned that it is the reporter's/journalist's responsibility to report the news, without bias or subjectivity.
To not advise the public of what you know to be factually incorrect is to be complicit in attempts to mislead the public. This makes you a public relations asset of one party or the other. In these cases, we all know for which party you are working, whether intentionally or otherwise.
Why are all the networks in such a race to do "fact-checking" during presidential elections, but not at any other time? Duplicity, dishonesty, moral bankruptcy all do not disappear once elections are over; they actually ramp up and become Obstructionism in Congress.
Let's face it, the GOP/Tea Party (and they're smoking the wrong kind of tea!) are not known for their restraint, their honesty, or living on the moral high ground. So it's truly the responsibility of the news organizations to "out" them, and tell it as it truly is.
Not to mention advise the public on how much time is being wasted by trying, more than 40 times, to repeal or otherwise cripple, the Affordable Care Act; Obamacare. It is tantamount to working against the very government they swore to protect, to hold up the debt ceiling, and allow our country to be unable to pay for basic services, and in this case specifically military. As in, what it takes to protect our nation from all enemies, foreign and domestic. The GOP have become, by their very tactics, enemies of the nation; treason by any other name is still a heinous offense.
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