Reply #2: i hope you are right ... but i kind of tend to agree more with [View All]

[flordehinojos]

the last three paragraphs of this article by Jed Shlackman published by Online Journal this morning, in which he says the following:

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The Herald's journalistic integrity would be something that they could be trying to protect if there were really much to protect. The Miami Herald routinely refuses to address stories that would present genuine investigative journalism and truthful news to the public. The succession of inside job terror incidents epitomized by the events of September 11, 2001 have never been honestly reported on by the Miami Herald, although I give the Herald credit for once printing a paid advertisement by Michael Ruppert's From The Wilderness concerning matters related to the terror attacks. I wonder if the publishers at the Miami Herald recall a time when journalists focused on investigating stories rather than eating up and regurgitating propaganda that has been prepared for them.

Apparently, if you secretly record the comments of a man and never even use them in a story it's much more disturbing to the Herald than if you unquestioningly report as newsworthy fact what politicians state on the record. That includes when the politicians' comments are transparent propaganda to support an agenda that leads to deaths of at least tens of thousands of people.

When irrefutable evidence of high level crimes and deception is presented to mainstream media publications they pretend it doesn't exist. After all, the media itself is controlled by those involved in the crimes and deceptions. So The Miami Herald displays open hypocrisy to justify its decision to fire a popular reporter. If I were firing DeFede myself, it would be for his failure in the last four years to discuss the likelihood that the U.S. government was involved in orchestrating September 11, making many other debates about partisan politics pointless. But then for all I know Jim DeFede did wish to write about that and was silenced by his editors.

link to the complete article:
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=86492