Terrorism Reporters Reassigned to .... PALIN INVESTIGATIONS

Is it any wonder that print is dying a miserable death? Palin investigations .... talk about a one way trip to nowhere. Can't wait for breaking stories on the media's obsession with her motherly competence -  "EMPTY CALORIES RUN AMOK IN PALIN HOUSEHOLD!"" TOO LITTLE DISINFECTANT  IN PALIN BATHROOM?!" " CAUGHT KISSING TRIG - FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES?!" With this mother of five's busy schedule, she has no time for Chicago corrupt political skulduggery. Maybe they out to pursue Rezko, Mansour, Wright, Frank Marshall, Odinga, Ayers et al. Plenty of grist there.

This is pathetic. Islamic terror is ramping it up and the MSM is chasing Palin's cycle.

Mainstream Media Diverting Terrorism Reporters Into Political Investigations By Andrew Cochran hat tip Rut

I see one after another of the mainstream media outlets which have made important contributions to the factual underpinnings of the counter-terrorism effort dropping off that beat. Editors in the print media are shifting terrorism experts on their staffs towards investigations of political candidates. At least three such reporters at three major papers are now chasing Sarah Palin stories (I haven't had time to chase down everybody in "the business"). The move away from terrorism investigations started over a year ago as the print media entered into a long-term decline in ad revenues, but the trend has been accelerated in this election year. It is an unfortunate coincidence that true experts, with some of the best contacts and intel in the private CT community, are being moved out of their chosen fields just as we approach the anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. It's especially disconcerting to see this trend at the very moment when President Bush is committing more counterinsurgency resources to capturing or killing Osama bin Laden and/or Ayman al-Zawahiri before he leaves office, a strategic decision with serious ramifications for relations between the U.S. and Pakistan and other nations in South Asia.

The Media Plan to Destroy Palin By Cliff Kincaid

A number of veteran reporters in the mainstream media have broken important stories using sources and methods that the intelligence community could not or chose not to exploit. The broad CT community would suffer a serious loss if these bona fide experts leave the field for any length of time. In the meantime, nonprofit organizations and dedicated blogs have the opportunity and capability to inform the public.

Comments

[epaminondas]

Does that mean that they are 'taking their eye off the ball"?

Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah !!!!!!!

[jj]

pamela geller:

thank you for your ceaseless and tireless efforts to serve the public good.

if the jihad is defeated, if creeping sharia is curbed, you will have played no small part in that fight.

if barrack obama is defeated at the polls, you will take major credit in that effort.

again, thank you, for this article and so many others, trying to keep people focused on what is important in their lives.

i think you should feel proud of your efforts.

they are recognized, and appreciated.

john jay

[jj]

p.s. you are a mensch. out west, we call someone like you a "trooper." a fighter and a warrior. that you are.

[Deacon John M. Bresnahan]

I served as a deacon at St. Agnes Church for a number of years. Sometimes I slip up and instead of saying "Holy Family" when asked where I am now a deacon, I say "St. Agnes."
And so now Obama says "My Moslem faith" to George Steph. HMMMMM!!!!

[Deacon John M. Bresnahan]

Yet Obama's website claimed he was never a practicing Moslem!HMMMMM!!!

[David Anfinrud]

Remember Republicans are worse than Terrorists. and CHristians are the same as terrorist. OF course the newspapers will put their top terrorist investigating reporters on such evil people.

[kaps]

PG:

spartan
warrior
braveheart
trooper
cowgirl

she da' gal!!!! yeeeeeehaaaaaaa!!!

[ThousandOaksBill]

We see the media indifference to forces bent out destruction at every turn. The media refuses to acknowledge that Islam is more than just a religion, it is an ultra-aggressive political movement. You need only study a map of the world to see that wherever Muslims go in large numbers, pain death and bloodshed follows.

The UK has made a monumental mistake by allowing massive Islamic immigration. The British will pay in blood as soon as radical Islam reaches critical mass. British Muslims view themselves as a state within a state. They will invariably turn to violence once their numbers reach a size and proportion that allows them to sustain a campaign of murder and violence against those they deem infidels.

[Shy Guy]

Say it in pictures.