Patrick Kennedy vs the News Media

Regarding the media, I would have to agree with him completely because there are so many issues that our press leaves out. Some perhaps deliberately. They are also to busy covering stories that leave the American public more ignorant than before they started watching. The media in this country has grown to BIG and they have to much power, just like the corporations that practically run the government.

Thank you! Rep. Kennedy. Press corp? What the heck is that? There is NO press corp! If the “press” actually printed what is really going on in America America would be at war with our elected leaders and their ineptitude!

Those of us who have family members who have died or been mentally or physically damaged beyond repair to that a few multinational crime syndicate arms and drug dealers can have new clients to market their weapons of true mass destruction, stand up and APPLAUD you Rep. Kennedy.
Too bad your President is too busy carrying out Bush’s 3rd term and appealing to drug dealers and human rights abusers in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq to notice.
700 military bases, 130 countries, thousands killed, maimed or physically scarred beyond repair and dying from toxic waste exposure (DU) soldier and civillian alike… And all most can do is say “I support the troops.”
BS. Utter BS. If you supported the troops you would answer one question: “Why are men dying fighting wars and bombing bridges overseas, when our bridges are falling down and our borders are undefended?” National Security My A**! Somebody loves making money of off dead Americans. Wether they are American or foreign is merely irrelivant.
Come on folks, war is over… If you want it. No excuses.
But when you vote for multimillionaires and wonder when scandals arise, and they don’t return your calls, even the Almighty can’t help you.

If the media had done their job 40+ years ago at CHAPPAQUIDDICK, you would not even be in D.C.

Hey Patches,
Looks like it’s time for round #6 at Rehab.

Maybe he and kucinich can get together and discuss alien invasions. What a silly silly loser!

I don’t see how anyone can knock this. It should be something we can all agree on. I hope others join his chorus here. The press is absurd anymore.

Well – what can you expect from the lap dogs of Obama? They are focused on Massa, because they are bought off by Obama’s regime to smear Massa. Obama doesn’t want people focused on Afghanistan – and the fact that we are getting ready to pull our troops out early – right after we finally start winning (and Iran’s President goes in to take over). Obama wants to give this country over to his best buddy in Iran, just as he has sat back and distracted this country with this healthcare nonsense for a year so that we don’t focus on the nuclear weapons his buddies in Iran are getting ready to target onto our allies. So – why would we be surprised that he has the media distracted elsewhere?

He is absolutely right, and I never thought he would be the one to say it. The press seems to be stuck to Obama like glue, never leaving him for a second. Every minute they are reporting on him and ignoring the wars. They just love that White House beat.

He might have been telling the truth but he had better settle down before he has a stroke and I not kidding.

To the person referring to liberals “getting a charge out of seeing their country humbled and brought down.”
What is humbling (and bringing us down)
is many things: Our POOR standing in EDUCATION in the world, Politicians playing “dirty” politics instead of working for the electorate, buying foreign cars, (when Us cars are just as good, being concerned about the”bottom line” instead of the just and honest living.Constantly criticizing without making a conscious effort HELP solve the problems. The USA is surely MORALLY BANKRUPT!
But isn’t freedom great! NO ONE is EVER satisfied!

Well – what can you expect from the lap dogs of Obama? They are focused on Massa, because they are bought off by Obama’s regime to smear Massa. Obama doesn’t want people focused on Afghanistan – and the fact that we are getting ready to pull our troops out early – right after we finally start winning (and Iran’s President goes in to take over). Obama wants to give this country over to his best buddy in Iran, just as he has sat back and distracted this country with this healthcare nonsense for a year so that we don’t focus on the nuclear weapons his buddies in Iran are getting ready to target onto our allies. So – why would we be surprised that he has the media distracted elsewhere?
Posted by: clr | Mar 10, 2010 7:13:26 PM……………………………………………………………WOW, Looks like someone’s been reading Rove fear mongering paper! You better be scared, you better be really really scared……I can here your boots shaking from here…..

I agree with Patrick. I’ve seen reporters make a small handful of protesting people seem like they were a majority. I’ve lost almost all of the respect I once had for the press.

A Kennedy blaming the media for focusing on issues politicians like himself do not like, is like a drunk complaining that the cops should focus on “real criminals” instead of issuing DUI’s.

Thank goodness he is about to leave office maybe then he can get some help for his alcohol and drug addiction.

Press gotta go after Massa to protect
Obama. Patrick, you useless appendage
of a tanking dynasty…..they have to
ignore your rantings to save Obama’s
bacon.

The Democrate party is full of liars, elitist, and MARXIST. All the Kennedy’s have a dirty past, and good riddance to them. The only press reporting hard facts is the Wall Street Journal, Fox News, Barron’s, and Investor’s Daily. Most news in this country is propaganda fed to the masses. You have a bunch of self absorbed elitist trying to transform our country into a Marxist gulag, and you people out there need to realize what is going on, and you need to do some research into Obama, and his radical Marxist pals. In fact check into all the fraud, and corruption in the Democrat Party while your at it. Be an American FIRST, and party LEMMING last. America is a great country, with great people, we don’t need big government Marxist ruining our lives with their ambitions of power.

Why didn’t this get more play! Kennedy is reaching out and capturing what so many Americans feel with this speech! He hits the heart with this speech and it should have been a major topic in news reports across this country!
Sadly he is so right. The national media is now almost fully controlled by a few chains. That is why the coverage is so bland and why issues just get ignored. I pop on Drudge because it gives access to newspapers all over the world – and you can see just how little our own major media is reporting!

I find it curious that there was no outrage when the media:
(1) Ignored hours of testimony over several years by Bush Administration officials and Congressional Republicans seeking legislation to rein in Fannie & Freddie over objections from the Democrats.
(2) Characterized Climategate as a ‘theft’ as opposed to the event that exposed fraudulent behavior by recipients of AGW funding.
(3) Sat still while the administration launched a frontal assault on the first amendment – attacking members of the free press and that the founders saw as the watchdogs of the republic and threw around terms like net-neutrality.
So the love affair that the media has had with the left and left-wing causes for years (or forever) has transformed into a slobbering love affair with the administration. No news here.

Check your facts, Georgie, not that they prove anything.

Wow! What a delivery…

Patrick Kennedy was angry, fed up and right! Thank you Mr. Kennedy for calling out the mainstream press and their feeding frenzy over Jerry Springer type stories. The media people spinning your honest sincere reaction as some sort of negative are cynical people who don’t understand that seeing someone get angry at real problems is a POSITIVE to most people witnessing it.

Patrick is a jerk for sure and I am glad this bum is leaving. But he should understand we no longer have “The Press” What we have for a news organizations are a bunch of readers that are full of themselves and have a left wing bias.
We stopped getting the real news years ago. Just look at what we get for morning news! It is a joke with so many things going on we have to see a dog reacued A(a Nice Act To be Sure) but in place of real news?
The only good thing that will become of the news in the years a head they will be dumped for they have ceased to be relevent. I wish they would go with exception of Fox News – which seems to be on the ball and does some real reporting.

You know why there’s only 2 press people watching because there’s a president blamebush. The liberal media by and large worship him and don’t want to promote negative coverage

Our people need to get out of Afghanistan, it is a war that can
not be won – caves and mountains
everywhere. Russia tried – for 10 years. Our economy is going bankrupt.
American companies are outsourcing jobs
to India, Phillipines, Canada – you
name it. We only have 17% of our
manufacturing jobs left in this country.
Our people cannot survive on banking,
health care, insurance and education jobs only. We used to be a nation that made products. We are a nation of consumers,
a nation of debt, a people that want it
now- don’t work hard for it just give it to me. We are drowning in our own self consumption. We have allowed illegal immigrants to work and live in this country, and they don’t pay in to the government system. We have American companies bringing in people from other countries
to work – Microsoft, Intel and Apple. They give them American paid wages with
an opportunity to stay in this country
for 10 years and then collect social securtiy at retirement age. We send the Social Security checks to their
countries – after we have allowed them to make a wage they would not have had
an opportunity to make in their own
country. Not to mention an American
lost that job to a foreigner. Visit other countries like France, England,
China etc… Outsiders will never take front seat. Bring our jobs back. Americans need to boycott these companies, and start recycling products.
Stop product made in China.
These American companies that outsource are traders, they have
turned their backs on the American people. While other countries flourish
we are becoming a nation of poverty.

Representative Kennedy was completely right to call out the national press corps for having their priorities completly backwards.
I remember distinctly watching the 24/7 coverage of Tiger Woods’ affair and seeing a small item about the latest offensive in Afghanistan at the bottom of the screen. I doubt that either Edward R. Murrow or Walter Cronkite would give a celebrity sex scandal the dignity of being mentioned on the evening news but now that this grist forthe mill of infotainment news coverage.
Regardless of whether you sopport or oppose American involvement in Afghanistan it is a critical issue which needs and deserves press coverage.

You know what I think on this topic? I believe good people like Evan Byah and Patrick Kennedy are getting “burnt out”. But instead of blaming the “media” the should be blaming the ridiculous “divisiveness” we now call “politics”. Because when we Americans become so distrustful of the 1) our media and 2) our government, then we better start checking our “pulse” as a free country. The cynical, “backlash” strategies that now inhabit our political parties is the
REAL problem. We have forgotten that to really be “The United States” we need to lose our selfishness, narcissism and start solving our problems “together” again.

John F. Kennedy said:
“why our press was protected by the First Amendment– the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution- -not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to emphasize the trivial and the sentimental, not to simply “give the public what it wants”–but to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mold, educate and sometimes even anger public opinion.”
You won’t read this anywhere else because the media today feeds us crap to keep us ill informed. Titillation sells and makes into zombies.

. Common Mr. Kennedy… though you belong to the Kennedy clan but you are no John F Kennedy. funny!hahahaha
there are two reason why the medias are ore were reluctant to report news about Afghanistan first becaus the “Messiah” is at the helm now and they do not want to upset their Emperor and number two because its quite possible that the news media finally recognized that the news they cover causes the moral of our troops to go bad. Thus giving our enemy, Islamic fascist terrorist, more reason to kill us all.

the left nut press at war with a left nut kennedy amazing!!!!!!!!!