Cain "mutiny" - or media malpractice?

Ah yes, it is campaign season (or should I say “wabbit” season)and the time for all plaintiffs to emerge from the woodwork. Plaintiff’s who wish to be completely anonymous while alleging career-ending charges of wrongdoing;  plaintiffs who claim in lurid, ratings-grabbing detail, wrongful  sexual advances made by a candidate, but plaintiffs who wish to seek no justice or compensation. Isn’t it curious; acts that Herman Cain allegedly perpetrated more than 10 years ago, that were considered so unimportant as to lay dormant all that time ( like a deadly virus) all of a sudden spring to life as soon as Mr. Cain achieves front-runner status in the GOP race for nominee. If it is not justice that these women seek, then what is it?  That’s  a rhetorical question.

My purpose here is not to discuss the innocence or guilt of Herman Cain, or his suitability for office of POTUS, but rather to point out a crime whose seriousness is so grave as to warrant a swift trial by public opinion. My allegations are rather weak by normal media standards, since I actually have facts with which to back up my claims and I am entirely lacking in anonymous sources and innuendo. I hope you won’t hold that against me, but instead blindly prosecute and condemn the defendants of my charges. Of course, I am referring to the mainstream media of now and the past;  that corrupt portion of the “fifth estate.” This group’s journalistic standards and lofty goals of seeking truth, of loyalty to citizens and of the discipline of verification have all but been abandoned in their rush to shape our times rather than chronicle our times. Here is a small sampling of some of the sordid details to back up of my claims of their crimes [in date sequence]:

[1978] ABC’s 20/20 - airs car crash video, rigged to show Fords were unsafe

[1992] NBC fakes a GM gas tank rupture, using hidden explosives. X-rays showed no defect.

[1998] Peter Arnett is fired from CNN for bogus story about U.S. military in Viet Nam. Later working for NBC and National Geographic he was fired again for his interview with Iraq state TV.

[2003] CNN admits to “overlooking” Saddam Hussein’s atrocities in exchange for favored news status.

[2004] Dan Rather and Mary Mapes of CBS in center of a forged documents scam to build a bogus story about George Bush’s military duty.

[2005] Michael Isikoff of Newsweek claimed that a U.S. interrogator had flushed a Quran down the toilet. Riots ensued in Pakistan and Afghanistan killing a dozen people. No evidence of this “flushing” was produced and no demonstration of how this could physically happen was shown.

 [2006] NYT reporters Wilson and Glater wrote that Mike Nifong, prosecutor, had a strong case against the Duke Lacrosse players in their rape case. The defendants were completely vindicated of the charges.

[2006-07] Reuters and Yahoo news ran an image of an elderly Iraqi lady showing two bullets they say she said hit her house. Unfortunately the image clearly showed two unfired rounds.