Somethings, and Sadly, Some People Never Change.

Based on reputation as well as repetition, is the New York media biased or even crooked, like one of the 2016 presidential candidates’ claim? This particular candidate has constant quarrels with the New York Post, Time Magazine, and bitter battles with Fox News host Megyn Kelly, although Sean Hannity, another Fox News host, treats the mentioned candidate like a god, but apologized recently for using a fake news story to attack First Lady Michelle Obama. And don’t get me started on Bill O’Reilly. Caution??? You're about to enter the no-spin zone? Shouldn’t we as taxpayers want to enter a no-spin zone? I have never seen a man who loves to interrupt and hear himself talk more than the Factor’s ready to pounce O’Reilly. Geez, that guy practically answers his own questions.   

And then you have something called the Main Stream Media, where most GOP representatives and surrogates tell each other to avoid as best they can, newsroom places like MSNBC and CNN. However, Republican representatives will appear quite often on dominate left-wing programs and receive fair treatment. Not so by Fox News. Very rare will Democrat representatives accept an invitation to appear on Fox. Most of the time Fox has to settle on their own left wing Fox News contributors’, unable to book a Democrat from Congress.  The so-called persistent term” fair and balanced debate” Fox pundits invent through their teeth has significantly lifted onto the air-waves from the caught in the act facts that years ago Fox newscasters’ were anything but fair. Want a good example? I swear, every time political analysis Mr. Juan Williams joins a roundtable discussion on any Fox News program, his microphone volume is weaker than all the others.     

So, it makes me wonder. . . Does New York cultivate journalists from the womb? Do they rely on matching DNA’s identical patterns that breed skeptics, retaliate personalities, and dare I say it, crooked behaviors for the soul purpose to slander, humiliate and seek a most unseemly, but altogether an outrageous and downright shameful goal, to destroy those they interview and achieve breaking news?

Or, is it probable well-known Press reporters’ and TV Correspondents’ offspring duplicate their parents’ characteristics just by watching how mom and dad conduct themselves in the home, long after leaving the workplace? The same kind of New York journalists’ of 1964 Ringo spoke about in the Beatles Anthology documentary. The following is taken directly from the enormous Anthology book, founded on page 120.  Here is what the famous drummer had to say, and I quote, “Being cheeky chappies saved our arses on many occasions, especially then, on the train to Washington, because the guys from the press had come to bury us. These reporters, being New Yorkers, would yell at us, but we just yelled back. When we got to know some of them they said. “’We came here to kill you, but you just started shouting back at us––we couldn’t believe it.’” Up until then, pop groups had been like milk and honey with the press. No, I don’t smoke that kind of thing. And here we were, smoking and drinking and shouting at them.  That’s what endeared us to them.

Likewise, John also had a few words to say in connection with how bad journalists’ relish ripping the good life out of people. Mr. Lennon’s comment, also found on page 120, follows, and I quote, “We’d learnt the whole game; we knew how to handle the press when we arrived. The British press are the toughest in the world––we could handle anything. We were all right. I know on the plane over I was thinking, “’Oh, we won’t make it.’”, but that’s that side of me, we knew we would wipe them out if we could just get a grip. I don’t mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. You’ve got to have people putting you down. It doesn’t give any edge to it if everybody just falls flat on their face saying, You’re great. We enjoy some of the criticism as well, they’re quite funny, some of the clever criticisms, not the ones that don’t know anything, but some of the clever ones are quite fun. The main thing that’s kept us going when it’s been real hard work is the humor amongst ourselves, we can laugh at anything––ourselves included. That’s the way we do everything–– everything’s tongue in cheek. We’re the same about ourselves, we never take it seriously.”

Imagine how much better the world would be if every single person laughed, and joked, and used clever self-inflicted jabs at ourselves rather than shoved on others bully style. Picture funnyman Don Rickles mopping the floor with insult lunacy stabs all directed at himself, while every pot-shot spurts comic ridicule more hilarious than the last. Imagine if candidates running for office did the same, and pundits, reporters, sports teams, those in the arts of film, music, and handcraft sculptors and painters, co-workers of every business, and classmates in every school. Imagine.