Media Lies Continue

Marty Preib takes the media to task again, this time for trying to paint cops as "extremists:"

• Sun-Times reporter Tom Schuba shills for the radical left as Democratic Convention approaches

  As the Democratic convention draws closer, Chicago media outlets like the Sun-Times and WBEZ have intensified another monumental campaign of deceit.

  This latest campaign is aimed at transforming Chicago police officers into political radicals while protecting the truly extremists the Chicago media has faithfully served for decades. Toward that effort, Tom Schuba and the Sun-Times have taken a break from pushing bogus exoneration stories to devoting a collection of articles about cops being right-wing zealots, ominously entitled “Extremism in the Ranks.”

The Slum Times and WBEZ are merely left-wing rags and Schuba is just another media moron doing the bidding of the radical left, and Preib does a very good job pointing out how and when they traveled down that sinkhole.

Someone else did some explaining from a scientific starting point a few years ago and we happened to run across it again:

• Journalists' brains show a lower-than-average level of executive functioning, according to a new study, which means they have a below-average ability to regulate their emotions, suppress biases, solve complex problems, switch between tasks, and show creative and flexible thinking.

  The study, led by Tara Swart, a neuroscientist and leadership coach, analysed 40 journalists from newspapers, magazines, broadcast, and online platforms over seven months. The participants took part in tests related to their lifestyle, health, and behaviour.

  It was launched in association with the London Press Club, and the objective was to determine how journalists can thrive under stress. It is not yet peer reviewed, and the sample size is small, so the results should not be taken necessarily as fact.

  Each subject completed a blood test, wore a heart-rate monitor for three days, kept a food and drink diary for a week, and completed a brain profile questionnaire.

And they discovered that on the whole, journalists pretty much registered "borderline" at birth, ran past "moron" and cratered somewhere around "imbecile' before they went to J-school. Upon graduation, they became "idiots" and pretty much stayed there before applying to the Sun Times and WBEZ.

But go read Preib's article up top - you'll be smarter than Schuba at the very least.