IOTW News You Won't See in the MSM by Gene Lalor
President Barack Hussein Obama's mainstream media's stranglehold on news it decrees as newsworthy, i.e. news that meshes with the leftist political agenda, is the stuff of contemporary legend. Following the lead of the former "paper of record," the New York Times, the MSM prints and broadcasts only news that fits.
It remains then for non-mainstream outlets to pick up the slack and disseminate to the public information the MSM censors and buries in liberal socio-political interests.
To be sure, sometimes stories become so public thanks to those rebel outlets that the MSM is compelled to cover them, albeit with a leftist twist if they can get away with it.
Two momentous, and salacious, cases in recent memory which the mainstreamers attempted desperately to conceal, one of which almost brought down a Democrat presidency, another which exposed a Dem darling as a lying adulterer, proved to be major embarrassments to the MSM not because of their smarminess but because they knew about them and failed to report them.
It took the upstart, Matt Drudge, to out the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky outrages and the tabloid rag, the National Enquirer, to reveal the John Edwards-Rielle Hunter affair.
Of course, as always and with a little help from their political friends, the MSM recovered from its abdication of journalistic integrity.
A distinctly unfriendly website, unfriendly to the Left, IOwntheWorld.com, regularly publishes stories and items of interest that even Drudge.com avoids, reports in the news which the MSM wouldn't touch with a ten-foot keyboard.
Irreverent, iconoclastic, occasionally bawdy, IOTW provides an alternative to Drudge's wannabe mainstream pretensions and to other websites that filter the news, as well as reporting known truths with an honest spin.
IOTW also puts the lie to the widely-held misconception that conservatives are conservative in everything, but that's a whole different perspective that can best be understood by visiting IowntheWorld.com.
A sampling of IOTW reports, of the non-bawdy variety:
. "Where Have You Gone Bo Dimaggio?" excerpted comments on the disillusionment of Hollywood's elitist liberals with Obama as seen in Tinsel Town's fete hosted by the obnoxious Alec Baldwin.
. "I Repeat, There Will Be No Praying in the Foxhole" re-prints a CNSNews.com piece explaining the disturbed rationale of atheists in the military campaigning against prayer by soldiers before they begin missions that could result in their deaths.
. "Class Action Suit Against the DNC" details the thinking of a black minister-community activist who is suing the Democrat Party for its unapologetic complicity in slavery and other racist practices through 2011.
. Girl Gang in Leicester, England Kicks a Woman in the Head While Screaming, "Kill the White Slag" and is freed because they are Muslims not accustomed to drinking alcohol.
To my knowledge, Obama's MSM has failed to report any of the above.
Perhaps they are fans of Hollywood, perhaps they endorse atheism, perhaps they are racists, perhaps they agree that Muslim "ladies" are free to senselessly assault others because they're not used to boozing.
And perhaps the mainstream media should follow IOTW's example and report this stuff. It may not be politically correct to do so but it would be the ethically correct thing, although ethics is probably not a mandated course in schools of journalism.
(See all sources at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=9906.)
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