Journalistic Graffiti
Reader comment on item: Note to Readers on Tennessean Story

Submitted by Edward Cline, Oct 25, 2010 18:33

The headline of this article telegraphs the article's bias and intent: "Anti-Muslim crusaders make millions spreading fear." Not only is the style crudely reminiscent of Nazi or Communist "journalism" ("Jewish financiers profit from Germany's woes" or "Capitalists make war on the proletariat"), but it's factually incorrect. As Emerson explains above, SAE "makes" the money by providing ancillary services to IPT, which is a non-profit entity.

But, apparently the clearing and vetting of IPT and SAE by the authorities isn't good enough for Bob Smetana and his employer.

Then, IPT is not necessarily "anti-Muslim." True, Emerson and his staff are "crusaders," in a sense, but crusaders for the truth about Islam. Are they "spreading fear"? In one sense, yes, by warning Americans that the country has been infiltrated by activists bent on bringing Sharia law to its politics and jurisprudence by stealth and lawfare.

The article itself is one long exercise in journalistic graffiti. Some hack at CAIR could have ghost-written it. I'm surprised that Smetana hasn't been hired away by The New York Times or Washington Post. He's so good at reporting "news" that fits the Islamic agenda.

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