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    Infamous Scribblers: Virtue Signalers on the Warpath

    One more comment on "when the high school boys were defamed by journalists with the accusation that they mocked an elderly Native American who was trying to calm a confrontation with a radical group of anti-white, anti-Semitic racists."


    Infamous Scribblers: Virtue Signalers on the Warpath

    The incident with the Covington boys may be more significant than some transient scandal. One remembers Senator Joseph McCarthy using the media to his advantage, and to this day his foes will not admit that he did indeed expose some real threats to the nation. The young Robert Kennedy was his assistant attorney and McCarthy was godfather to Robert’s first daughter, Kathleen, although he died four years later and obviously had no catechetical influence. But when his actions became extravagant, the Army attorney Joseph Welch asked, “Have you no sense of decency?” Therewith the whole deck of cards collapsed. Perhaps the media are beyond a sense of shame now, wallowing as they are in destructive polemics, but fair-minded people may be moved by this Covington incident to recognize the indecency of political correctness. Such correctness is most demeaning when it cloaks itself in an affected moralism which agnostic subjectivism has otherwise displaced from social discourse.

    Our Lord condemned “virtue signaling” in his parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector in the Temple. “I thank you, Lord, that I am not like this sinner.” There are Pharisees in every corridor of society, but they find a most comfortable berth in the Church. So it was that the very diocese of the Covington students, without interviewing them or asking for evidence outside the media, promptly threatened to punish them. There was no reference to the hateful racism and obscene references to priests chanted by the cultic Hebrew Israelites as they threatened those Catholic youths. Instead, bishops issued anodyne jargon about the “dignity of the human person” without respecting the dignity of their own spiritual sons. The latest advertisement of the Gillette razor company portraying examples of “toxic masculinity” did not accuse any bishop, but only ecclesiastical bureaucrats would consider that a compliment. Pope Francis, off-the-cuff and at a high altitude in an airplane, once asked, “Who am I to judge?” There might at last be some application of that malapropism to shepherds who jump to judgment and throw their lambs to the wolves of the morally bankrupt media in a display of virtue signaling and in fear of being politically incorrect.
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    Some portion of the truth isn't enough

    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    One more comment on "when the high school boys were defamed by journalists with the accusation that they mocked an elderly Native American who was trying to calm a confrontation with a radical group of anti-white, anti-Semitic racists."

    Infamous Scribblers: Virtue Signalers on the Warpath
    Well, half-right. The journalists part is wrong. I don't remember when social media stories became fodder for actual news coverage. But it's a very bad trend. Social media aren't held to journalistic standards, & so when news media quote stories from there, they have an obligation to check to make sure that the story is accurate. Certainly the Founding Fathers would not have carved out a special place for news media in the founding document of the republic, if they had thought that news would degenerate to mere hearsay.

    If they don't do the legwork, the news media will fall flat on their collective face time after time. @ that rate, in a very short time, those media will have earned the ridicule they should fear. So yah, there may be some attempt to signal virtue there, accounting for some of the bad reporting that went on in this story. I count it more as sheer sloth, ineptitude, & expecting someone else (who?) to do the actual work of reporting.

    The media that ran with the compelling images instead of asking hard questions need to ask
    themselves hard questions: Why are they in the news business @ all, if they can't be relied upon to get the story right the first time? & why should the public pay them any mind if they don't mend their ways? & the fearsome question: Why would any advertiser wish to be associated with such a poor product?
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    Quote Originally Posted by southwest88 View Post
    Well, half-right. The journalists part is wrong. I don't remember when social media stories became fodder for actual news coverage. But it's a very bad trend. Social media aren't held to journalistic standards, & so when news media quote stories from there, they have an obligation to check to make sure that the story is accurate. Certainly the Founding Fathers would not have carved out a special place for news media in the founding document of the republic, if they had thought that news would degenerate to mere hearsay.

    If they don't do the legwork, the news media will fall flat on their collective face time after time. @ that rate, in a very short time, those media will have earned the ridicule they should fear. So yah, there may be some attempt to signal virtue there, accounting for some of the bad reporting that went on in this story. I count it more as sheer sloth, ineptitude, & expecting someone else (who?) to do the actual work of reporting.

    The media that ran with the compelling images instead of asking hard questions need to ask
    themselves hard questions: Why are they in the news business @ all, if they can't be relied upon to get the story right the first time? & why should the public pay them any mind if they don't mend their ways? & the fearsome question: Why would any advertiser wish to be associated with such a poor product?

    Well, the "journalist" picked it up from social media and ran with it.
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    The media now is just too quick to jump on any story which they think can impugn ideas or positions which they disagree with. The media is overwhelmingly single minded.


    However the failure to vet things comes out a a rush to be the one who breaks the big story. Everyone wants to be the next Woodward and Bernstein.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tahuyaman View Post
    The media now is just too quick to jump on any story which they think can impugn ideas or positions which they disagree with. The media is overwhelmingly single minded.


    However the failure to vet things comes out a a rush to be the one who breaks the big story. Everyone wants to be the next Woodward and Bernstein.

    I can understand journalist wanting the next big story but a kid smirking at an old Indian playing a drum in his face is hardly that. What I see, and I think the OP gets at, is another opportunity for a liberal press to virtue signal by standing up for the oppressed Indian identity group and against the white male identity group. I think that becomes obvious when they to this day still largely ignore the Black Hebrew Israelites who were far worse in antagonism. It really is quite transparent.
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