Contra Costa Times' Obsession With Occupy Wall Street/Oakland

October 28, 2011 - San Francisco CA - PipeLineNews.org - Heavy coverage of the Occupy Oakland movement, featured prominently in the last two editions of the Contra Costa Times, reveals the paper's heavy handed, concerted push to support this revolutionary, neo-communist uprising.

So brazenly biased is the newspaper's coverage, one must assume that its ongoing narrative had to have been approved at the highest editorial levels [such as they are] at this San Francisco Bay Area daily newspaper.

The facts are as follows - over this 24 hour period, the CC Times devoted well over 300 column inches [computation based on number of columns in this 6 column format newspaper multiplied by the length of each column in inches] to this effort. This amount of coverage on a single [non-disaster] issue is pretty much unprecedented, especially given this newspaper's plummeting page count.

Above the fold, large font headlines supporting this hack journo include:

"Iraq veteran injured in clash"

"Protesters come out in force, peacefully" - oddly adjacent an image of the "peaceful" protesters violently tearing down cyclone fencing sections].

"All eyes are on Oakland"

"In wake of injury, a call for healing"

PipeLineNews.org's investigation into the motivating ideology behind Occupy Oakland and by extension, its parent, Occupy Wall Street, revealed it to be of neo-communist origin with a latent capacity for extreme violence [see, Occupy Oakland October 19, 2011, Taste The Madness].

So compelling is this evidence that any journalist should be able to draw a similar conclusion. That this doesn't happen at the Contra Costa Times and other Bay Area News Group products simply reveals that these organizations made the decision to cheerlead Occupy Oakland/OWS despite the obvious damage that such blatant bias may cause these periodicals long term.

What motivates a community newspaper to champion a movement whose organizers certainly hope will prove to be an existential threat to capitalism and Western democratic principles?

The most reasonable explanation is that the Contra Costa Times' editorial staff and the journalists it employs share much of OWS' driving ideology and therefore instead of merely covering the events surrounding the movement, the size of which pales in comparison to that of the Tea Party, they act as pamphleteers for the movement, not reporters. They have become stenographers for the hard left.

This newspaper has a lot to answer for regarding its ongoing and seemingly increasing leftwing bias. Perhaps the Contra Costa Times' advertisers need to be informed as to exactly what is going on. They may displeased to find their advertising carrier doesn't really seem to support the basic idea of capitalist commerce upon which these businesses depend.

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Bay Area News Group's Journalistic Malfeasance Over Occupy Wall Street Coverage

October 17, 2011 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Considering its coverage of the Occupy Wall Street freak show, which included the declaration 'THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE..."Protest Has Legs..." writers with the Bay Area News Group - a pretend journalistic enterprise which can be observed slowly sinking in the West - have apparently refused to undertake even the most cursory search of primary source documents to determine the protesters' goals.

While we don't expect much better from this "newsgroup's" assemblage of journo hacks and stenographers for the left, the sheer boldness of the combined newspapers' agendized efforts to conflate what is clearly a violent revolutionary movement [well over 1,000 arrested so far] with the peaceful, polite and politically effectiveTea Party would be ludicrous if it weren't such an obvious abuse of journalistic protocols - concepts with which these writers seem to be unfamiliar.

As we noted in an October 7 piece Occupy Wall Street Movement Driven By Neo-Marxist Rage, any reporter with a shred of curiosity and access to a computer could connect the same very large dots.

"Despite the best efforts of the MSM - and disappointingly many "conservative" pundits - to portray the "Occupy Wall Street" movement as a grassroots, populist response to supposed excesses by the securities and financial services industry, this backwater of human debris is in fact driven by a neo-Marxist rage that should be impossible to ignore - yet that is exactly what is happening.

One only has to briefly page through their official documents, the so called "Occupied Wall Street Journal" [see, http://www.breakingcopy.com/occupied-wall-street-journal-pdf] and the occupiers non-negotiable "13 demands," [see, http://occupywallst.org/forum/proposed-list-of-demands-for-occupy-wall-st-moveme/] to determine the ideology of its participants..."

One might also consider - given its near identical tone - how the Revolutionary Communist Party of the USA views these protests.

"Occupy Wall Street: Showdown and Victory – This Is So Not Over!

In the damp predawn dark of Friday, October 14, an enormous roar of jubilation went up in the canyons of Wall Street as more than 3,000 people cheered the news that New York City had backed down from unleashing their police on the Occupation of Wall Street. A victory was achieved, new ground seized.

Read on...

Prisoner Insights on "Occupy Wall Street"

Occupy Wall Street Spreads Across the U.S. and World

A Night Under Skyscrapers and Stars at Occupy Wall Street: "A Dialogue Is On" [source, Revolutionary Communist Party of the United States homepage, http://rwor.org/]

When the Communist Party of the US is a more reliable source of information on this movement than is the preening, not-so-free press, it becomes instantly clear that the MSM has been caught once again lying their collective asses off. These folks aren't in the truth business, their agenda lies elsewhere, a place which abides neither honor nor integrity...one need look no farther than 1600 Pennsylvania for the source of their inspiration.

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Lefty Bias At Contra Costa Times

July 29, 2011 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org/CC Times Watch - Back in 2005, as a side project we started [2005] a blog Contra Costa Times Watch with the idea in mind of documenting the biased journalism consistently presented by the San Francisco Bay Area's Contra Costa Times.

We essentially closed the project in 2006, having proved to our satisfaction, using numerous examples, a consistent pattern of left-wing bias at the newspaper, and feel we had a hand in driving the then editor out.

However, going into an election year where clear thinking on the part of the American voter is vital, we now find it useful to resurrect the project.

This example will be brief. It involves one of the many techniques that lefty journos use to subtly [oft times not so subtly] manipulate readers.

In today's [July 29, 2011] CC Times' Morning Report section, the headline, above the fold article deals with the efforts by DC legislators to deal with the Fed's debt authority.

The story was picked up [this is usually done by the wire editor in most newspapers] from the New York Times [see http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/11/us/politics/11boehner.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=carl%20hulse&st=cse For Boehner, Lofty Goals Checked By Reality]. Written by Carl Hulse, it details the last minute negotiations still underway by the GOP to present a united front in the debt limit debate.

The piece is, as is almost always the case with the NY Times, well written and edited. Surprisingly for that organization, the article is also a reasonably fair presentation of the facts.

But a funny thing happened to this item on its way to the Contra Costa Times. Running above the piece a new headline has been substituted [generally the responsibility of the copy editor in many print publications] which screams "GOP blows chance by torpedoing own plan."

The difference should be obvious to media/political junkies as well as the general readership. While the NY Times' headline fairly characterizes the text that follows, that appearing in the CC Times is clearly inflammatory, biased and seems designed to mislead. For many people "reading" the newspaper means a quick scan of headlines and maybe a more in depth reading of particular pieces later.

The headline was designed with this casual reader in mind, who could well be influenced by its negative tone - gathering that the budgetary difficulties in DC are to be laid at the feet of the GOP.

The facts are quite different and disquieting. Democrats have failed to produce a budget in over 800 days [see, http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/just-reminder-its-been-800-days-senate-passed-budget_576441.html] have presented no legislation at all to deal with the credit extension and president's most recent proposal failed receive a single vote in the Dem controlled Senate...enough said.

Oddly, the online version of the article carries a much fairer headline, obviously the work of whomever fulfills the function of online copy editor. [see, House puts off debt vote, after conservatives balk, http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_18569096?source=rss].

Since this is a re-christening of sorts we will leave it there for now with one brief note: CC Times Staff, we are watching and we know how the game is played.

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Contra Costa Times Times Watch - Announcement

July 29, 2011 - San Francisco, CA - Contra Costa Times Watch - Editors at the Contra Costa Times, we are back. Batten down the hatches, you are in for a bumpy ride.

Today's posting to follow.

[Editor's note: We started this as a side project to our main journalstic effort PipeLineNews.org which carries exclusive news content almost entirely devoted to U.S. national security, with a concentration on the threat posed by Islamism and the seditious doctrine of Shari'a [Islamic law]. We have been online for nearly 12 years continuously].

CONTRA COSTA TIMES WATCH IS BACK - AND WE'RE PISSED!

Hot Lanes To Hell - A CC Times Vote For Gestapo Traffic Restrictions?

July 24, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - CC Times Watch - In an above the fold, front page story, "HOT lanes expected to curb traffic" published on the 23rd, CC Times reporter Denis Cuff [an affable guy, as many local reporters are] writes rhapsodically about a proposed 800 mile network of toll roads, designed to force consumers into car pooling.

The plan is simple, and insidious.

Either jump into a car full of strangers or pay the price monetarily - 20 to 60 cents per mile [at first of course] for the privilege of using the roads your taxes have ALREADY paid for.

Quoting various spokespeople from Bay Area governmental traffic agencies - yeah the imbeciles who have brought you crappy, crowded pockmarked freeways and dumbass HOV lanes which further congest traffic because no one uses them, among other things - Mr. Cuff's piece paints a rosy picture of this being the future of transportation in the East Bay.

The article reads as a press release from the agencies involved, no dissenting views, no realization that freedom of mobility is elemental in this society and that expanding it rather than contracting and restricting it seems far more in keeping with our founding principles.

There are many subtexts here, among them:

1. Why are these types of governmental plans, which are obviously calculated to hamper freedom accepted so often by local media as being desirable?

2. Why are such far reaching decisions being made by faceless bureaucrats who are completely insulated from the repercussion of their actions, beyond the recall of citizens?

3. Where is the equity in citizens being charged to use roads for which they have already paid?

Our feeling about these related issues is that media types come out of the same mold - trust me we have talked to hundreds of these people over the years, from the New York Times to small podunk enterprises with mini circulations - and generally they believe that government is the solution to most problems. Given that attitude, restricting traffic is just another tool along with restricting urban growth, green zones, mitigation with private land holders to allow them to partially develop their property and a thousand other methods of turning communities of free citizens into ant farms.

There, we said it - ANT FARMS.

That is what your government has in store for you if you don't take action, if you don't stop the green nazis from incrementally restricting your freedoms [choose the area, remember that a few weeks ago nearly half the Supreme Court voted to deny that the Second Amendment even exists] until one day, you or most likely your children will live in a gray world which will make Orwell's 1984 seem like a Jamaican holiday.

Seriously...what is needed here? [The list is waaay too long, but here are a few observations]

Who the hell edits the CC Times? [Yes we know whose names are associated with those titles] do they confer with their writers at all or are they simply cut out of the same mold and serve mainly as human spell checkers rather than actively trying to produce a balanced perspective which might step on the toes of schmoes like the Metro Transportation Commission?

FACT: Publications like the CC Times are merely news aggregators, with the exception of their local stories, the quality of which has just been demonstrated, they are amalgams of similarly motivated op-ed pieces disguised as reportage from the big boys of the industry [NYT, Washpost, the LA Times and AP].

As a start it might be nice to at least admit that there is a problem in balance and then devise a method of dealing with it long term. Perhaps hiring a non-liberal [GASP]to help the editing process might help? Hell just having a conservative as a copy editor would spare us the glaringly ridiculous headlines which add nothing to the story and often present a skewed summation of what the piece is actually is about.

The next suggestion might be to inject a degree of openness into the newsroom and the editorial process. How about some public meeting where key newspaper employees actually meet with the public? These same folks DEMAND openness and sunshine laws in government, why not in their own professions? [yeah we know the answer to this and it will NEVER happen]

Ok this segment is getting long, don't want to tap out the bile, stay tuned, we are just warming up...

CONTRA COSTA TIMES WATCH IS BACK...AND WE'RE PISSED!

You Have Seen This, Right? - Obama VP Finalist - Little Johny Edwards - Busted In LA With Mistress And Love Child

July 22, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - John Edwards, former Democrat presidential candidate and currently on Obama's "short list" for VP was this morning busted by the National Enquirer in the Beverly Hilton hotel with his mistress Rielle Hunter,and their love child.

Confronted by the Enquirer's phalanx of reporters and photographers Edward's reportedly ran and hid in a bathroom for 15 minutes before being escorted past the reporters by hotel security personnel.

What does this mean aside from another Democrat being outed as a seamy, lying scumbag?

Consider this the Clinton's first salvo in the destruction of Obama a massive shot across the bow, stealing the spotlight from the freshman Senator as he prances across the Mideast and Europe as he sows whatever it is that he sows.

It may be news to some, but of course not to us, that the Clinton's have controlled both the National Enquirer and Star Magazine since 1999, when their former Treasury Secty, Roger C. Altman - through his company Evercore Capital Partners LLC - bought both tabloids for $294 million, acquiring them from American Media Inc. [source, New York Times, Investment Group Buys The National Enquirer and Star Magazine, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9804E3D8113AF934A25751C0A96F958260]

Obama, be afraid, be VERY afraid....

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Ok, Edwards is a Democrat and a scumbag...surprising huh? So what's the CC Times angle on this?

Well it's more a media angle in general than one that applies solely to this flea-bitten news aggregator masquerading as a newspaper.

Does anyone really believe that if this story featured a conservative GOP type rather than a flaming leftie ambulance chasing lawyer with a bad hairdo that it wouldn't have been plastered everywhere the fossil media treads?

Just on a lark we did a Google News search for Edwards a few hours ago and guess what?

Not a single substantive story ANYWHERE in the MSM. Right no newspaper, no networks, no cable outlets.

None.

Is this surprising?

Again, no.

Final comment:

Some have said that those on the extreme left are certifiable victims of mental illness and we believe it.

To these folks leftism is their secular religion and under no circumstances will they reject it. This was really driven home earlier today when the NY Times released its second quarter profit figures which were down a whopping 82%.

Now the mavens who run the Times must know why this is happening, they must realize that when they play this fast and loose with the truth that even casual observers take notice. So either they are insane OR they are addicts, they will cling to a failed business model of skewed news reportage to the point that their companies will go into the toilet, rather than deviate.

We callED all the sage heads at the CCTimes this afternoon, the Publisher, Editor and both Associate Editors asking for an explanation of why the Edwards story is of no concern to them. We aren't holding our breath on a reply.

You would think that given the fact that even MSM stalwarts like Andrea Mitchell [whom the left wants to eviscerate now because of her observations regarding media bias] are noting the bizarre spectacle in which nearly every American anchor is pursuing Obama in the Mideast and Europe as if he is the Second Coming that some of these clowns would at least pay lip service to the proposition that they should at least feign a modicum of fairness...but

Truly disgusting

Stay tuned, we are just warming up...

CONTRA COSTA TIMES WATCH IS BACK - AND WE'RE PISSED!

Phony Case Against Haditha Marines In Shambles, Charges Against Lt. Col Jeffrey Chessani Dropped

June 17, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The concocted, politically driven case against 8 U.S. Marines charged with atrocities as a result of a November 2005 fire fight in Haditha, Iraq, suffered what is most likely a mortal blow today when charges against Lt. Col Jeffrey Chessani were dropped by Judge Colonel Steven Folsom because the case had been compromised by the appearance of improper influence.

With charges now dropped against 7 of the 8 defendants, the status of the charges against the last of the charged, Sgt. Frank Wuterich seem to rest on extremely shaky turf, though that case is still scheduled to proceed as of this writing.

A political case from the outset, defense attorneys for the defendants have alleged that prosecutor General James Mattis was acting at the behest of anti-war politicians such as bin-Laden stooge John Murtha [D-PA] who at one point made public accusations that the Marines were guilty of cold-blooded murder, absent fact in a blatant attempt to influence the trial.

"It's much worse than was reported in Time magazine...There was no firefight...they [the Marines] killed innocent civilians in cold blood...they actually went into the houses and killed women and children." [and later to ABC] "I will not excuse murder and that what's happened."

The way this case was handled and dealt with by Democrat politicians and their 5th column allies, the nancy-boys in the media is seminal to understanding the two main causes of America's cultural identity crisis.

The outrageous behavior that the MSM has displayed throughout this case, the sensationalism and gleeful malice towards 8 Marines and the military in general, the gruesome images and screaming 72 point above the fold headlines is emblematic of just how traitorous these two forces have become.

In a year long media bias study conducted by PipeLineNews and available at Contra Costa Times Watch, we proved the [then Knight Ridder owned]that East San Francisco Bay Area California Newspaper the Contra Costa Times displayed the same virulent facts-be-damned anti-war stance as did the majority of the MSM.

In a June 12, 2006 piece, Don't Expect Fairness In Bay Area News Coverage Of Haditha we wrote:

"As we have demonstrated over a period of nine months [in our side project Contra Costa Times Watch] the San Francisco Bay Area's Contra Costa Times is impossibly biased towards the left [to the extent that it might as well be printed in the basement of Howard Dean's DNC] consistently siding with Democrat and international critics of the administration on both domestic and foreign policy issues including the war on terror and in that matter, diminishing - or more often than not simply not covering - the very real accomplishments being made by coalition forces.

In the case of the Haditha controversy the Times engages in showboat, conjecture-based journalism of the worst kind.

Sunday's edition carries several stories that either directly or indirectly touch on the "massacre" allegedly perpetrated by U.S. Marines in that godforsaken Iraqi town - at times a Taliban like Sunni terrorist stronghold, where videotaped beheadings, limb amputations and sundry mutilations were the order of the day well into 2005.

Anti-American zealots like band-aid warrior John Murtha [D-PA...Pennsylvania folks, not the Palestinian Authority], George Soros' bought and paid for phony "human right's" groups and the leftist media have embraced this story with a glee borne of the realization that, as Greg Mitchell the current editor of E&P Magazine, the bible of the publishing industry states:

"At this critical moment, it's time for newspapers -- many of which helped get us into this war -- to use their editorial pages as platforms to help get us out of it. So far, few have done much more than wring their hands. Now, it's literally do-or-die time."

It is this animus which simply permeates - with very few exceptions - the newspaper publishing industry in the wake of the Judith Miller affair.

Since June 5th the Times has carried at least 14 stories which touch on this issue, none of which present the story from the side of the Marines involved, all are at best critical and at worst examples of a lefty media lynch mob..."

We are looking forward, not with any hope of real change or effort to display fairness, to tomorrow's coverage by the CC Times regarding that matter. For additional information regarding this matter, please refer to Questions Arise About Haditha Doctor - Wahid al-Obeidi - Central Figure In "Massacre" Case and Questions Arise About Time "Massacre" Reporter, The Terror Friendly Aparisim Ghosh

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CC Times Stoops To New Low - Crocodile Tear Eulogy For Miguel Terrazas


Mr. Lopez have you no shame?

The Monday story on Miguel Terrazas is an affront to journalism - a very bad PR joke - and you should be ashamed for being a party to this false display of patriotism.

The events in Iraq in general and Haditha in particular have been the subject of constant misreporting by your newspaper and because of that we find this article an offensive and transparent effort to create in the minds of your readers a false impression - that you are somehow supportive of our armed forces, something that couldn't be further from the truth.

The position of the Times on the war on terror is indistinguishable from that of the Islamists, an honest newspaper wouldn't hide behind dead Marines who gave their lives so that people like you had the right to use their deaths to paper over the Times' anti-Americanism.

Doggen Hannah's article is a disservice to the memory of these fine young men and a cruel affront to their grieving families, you - Mr. Lopez - should be ashamed for having cooked this up.