When I was a member of the White House Press Corps, it was easily perceptible that reporters had the feeling that they could not say the “promise of faith” with other Americans in the White House. That has somehow endangered their neutrality. This passivity suggested that American reporters should not show appreciation for their country that records freedom of the press. That is a lack of gratitude, not just a lack of patriotism.
For the temporary employment media it became the feeling that they were not rooting for America, first underlined in their opposition against the war in Vietnam. This was crystallized with CBS anchor Walter Cronkite who stated from Saigon in 1968 that America would lose, “that the only rational way will be to negotiate, not as victors.” Cronkite was too praised as the essence of objectivity, but politicians feared his convincing power. Media force to influence the country was more satisfying than patriotism.
Journalism is ready against patriotism. Journalists despise patriotism as ‘my country right or wrong’ and they always want to be right. They associate patriotism with hot -bodies who insist on endless wars.
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In March 1989, the controversial thanklessness of the media towards America was brought to the attention by a PBS show called “Ethics in America”. Professor Charles Ogletree created a scenario in which America fought against a fictional country called North Kosan. The enemy started attacking American troops. He asked: Does a reporter have a “higher duty as an American citizen” to warn the troops? Without hesitation, CBS journalist Mike Wallace said no. “No, you don’t have a higher duty … you are a reporter.” ABC anchor Peter Jennings first said he would inform them and then change his mind: “I think he’s right too. I chose myself.”
CBS -anchor Walter Cronkite was feared by politicians. (Photo by Ben Martin/Getty Images)
In a Primetime Special in April 1990, Jennings clearly indicated that America was not a benign power in the world. “The United States are again deeply involved with Cambodia. Cambodia is on the edge of hell again.”
September 11, 2001, the country may have united for a few weeks, but not on ABC. Six days after thousands of Americans died, ABC argued “politically incorrect” host Bill Maher that the terrorists who drove planes to buildings were more brave than American pilots: “We have been the cowards. We are the cowardly cruise rackets of 2,000 miles away, that is cowardly.” Staying the building, saying, “” “”
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Two weeks later, producer Dick Meyer “CBS Evening News” wrote a commentary on CBSNewS.com about the inconvenience with the American flag. “Our 10-year-old daughter asked her mother if we could put a flag on our car. My wife reluctantly agreed, but did not bought the flag yet … My wife in essence in essence shares the feelings of the flag in her youth was appropriated by counter-protesters who used the patriotism of the war of the war of the war of the war.” Burning the flag is not aggressive. It is waving.
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Flag-Pins still insulted PBS-Gastheer Bill Moyers, who made a Pompeus comment on his program “Now” on the network funded by the taxpayer. The flag is hijacked and converted into a logo – the trademark of a monopoly on patriotism. … When I see flags on official lapels, I think of the time in China when I saw Mao’s Little Red Book about the desk of every civil servant, omnipresent and unread. ”
Four years later, Moyers was still busy on his PBS show, now called “Moyers & Company”. This time he tore the promise: “The next time you say the ‘promise of faith’. … Don’t forget that it is a lie, a hunter of a lie.
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Also in 2007 the ABC news program “The View” Rosie O’Donnell and suggested that we were the terrorists: “I just want to say something: 655,000 Iraqi citizens are dead. Who are the terrorists? … If you were in Iraq, what would you call us?”
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“The View” was still here in 2021, when Olympic athlete Gwen turned around and covered her head while playing the national anthem during the delayed Olympic tests. Whoopi Goldberg came to defense: “In the coming days we will play the American national anthem and show you what you think of it. Because there are some things in it that make it a bit difficult to take.”
America is a free country and journalists are free to denigrate it. Journalists are free to claim that their precious profession places them above the promise of Trouw. But they should not be stunned if Americans decide that they do not trust networks that sound suspicious of the national unit that can bring patriotism.
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