gordon http://www.correntewire.com/taxonomy/term/2475/atom/feed 2007-02-11T19:10:18-05:00 NAACP Meltdown: When Good Orgs Go Bad http://www.correntewire.com/naacp_meltdown_when_good_orgs_go_bad 2007-03-13T22:04:21-04:00 2007-03-13T22:04:21-04:00 chicago dyke I'm getting tired, so I'll be lazy and let Jack and Jill speak for me. But I'll be getting back to this one, because it's high time (white) folks understood that the Old Guard in many ways is as odious as the DLC. Bloggers and progressives aren't the only ones fighting "our side" to correct the focus and direction "our" organizations take (live links at original):

I was reading Bruce Gordon's leaked memo to the gigantic 64 member board of directors at the NAACP to clarify what are no doubt many rumors among the board and staff.

It reads like the patient self-justification of a very frustrated man. It's painful for me to read for the following reasons:

1) The NAACP still holds power. They have a sterling brand name, especially among African-Americans aged 55+ (read: voters). They also still retain a large (yet rapidly aging) member base of 500,000 people. They remain a strong lobby in Congress when they actually bother to attempt some forceful advocacy such as the recent re-authorization of the Voting Rights Act.

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 Motivation: Money, or Why Some Journalists Fellate Republicans So Much http://www.correntewire.com/motivation_money_or_why_some_journalists_fellate_republicans_so_much 2007-02-11T19:10:18-05:00 2007-02-11T19:10:18-05:00 chicago dyke Once again, the doom and gloom types look to have yet another reason to say, "I told you so," as the warmongers' whores do their part to scare America silly and the warmongers themselves enter Phase Two and make serious preparations for the "inevitable" war with Iran. Glenn asks some good questions about the whores, and their willingness to cheerlead us all into the unthinkable:

One of the critical issues which that disgraceful Michael Gordon article in yesterday's New York Times raises is the extent to which so many national journalists are so eager to prove to right-wing fanatics that they are sympathetic to their agenda. Years of being attacked by the Rush Limbaughs and Sean Hannitys and Bill O'Reillys as being part of the dreaded "liberal media" has created an obsequious need among many journalists to curry favor -- through reporting which echoes right-wing narratives and/or by attacking the "liberal bias" of their fellow journalists -- all in order to avoid being criticized by the right-wing noise machine.That is the defining symptom of The Mark Halperin Syndrome.
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Manifestly, Moran -- just like Halperin -- is eager to show that he is pro-military and was desperate to convince Hewitt that he is not one of those dirty anti-American subversive liberals. To achieve that goal, Moran paraded in front of Hewitt and smeared his fellow journalists as being "deep[ly] anti-military" and claimed that they have a "dangerous" hostility to "American projection of power around the world." Identically, Halperin begged Hewitt not to"lump [him] in with people in [his] business who are liberally biased and don’t seem to care about it." 
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The influence of The Mark Halperin Syndrome on our media cannot be overstated. There is a pervasive desire on the part of many national journalists to prove to the right-wing noise machine that they are not like their horrible, leftist, America-hating, anti-military journalistic colleagues which the Right has so successfully demonized.

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