Who, what, where, when, why, and how. These are questions every good, responsible investigator or journalist are supposed to ask to prove a theory or verify claims. During political campaigns the candidates are usually put through journalism’s equivalent of an autopsy. No stone is left unturned. Every bit of minutia is dug up and reported going back to their pre-school days. Each and every one of these questions are posed and answered over and over again in a quest for information. Nothing is sacred, nothing is overlooked, and everything is put out there, including all of the dirty laundry.
This campaign is different. Every candidate has been put under the microscope except one. Who, what, where, when, why, and how. That is what we want to know about Hillary Clinton. We know nothing about her except that she was married to Bill Clinton and that she practiced law in Arkansas. That sums up all we are allowed to know about her. This is not fair and balanced journalism. It is biased and slanted journalism.
Journalists are the self appointed overseers and watchdogs of government and politics. They are the self appointed accountability czars. When it comes to Mrs. Clinton, they are the three monkeys- see nothing, hear nothing, speak nothing; evil or good. In an egregious display of total irresponsibility, they have ignored Hillary Clinton’s past and her alleged record. They have reported on, attacked, and delved into every facet of all the other candidates; their faith, their positions or changes of positions, their public records versus their stands on issues, their accomplishments and failures, their personal lives and peccadilloes.
Yet, they know next to nothing about Hillary Clinton. She is an enigma wrapped in a mystery, wrapped in an enigma. She is smoke and shadow. Hillary Clinton is running for the presidency of our nation. We deserve to know more about her than she is willing to tell us. We deserve to know if there are skeletons in her closet, if she in fact- verified- has a record of public service as she claims, and what changes she is responsible for implementing.
Who, what, where, why, when, and how.
Where are the media? Why have they abdicated their responsibility to the consumer? When did they decide to become blind mice? Who is pulling the strings of their ignorance? What is their agenda regarding Hillary? How have they sunk so low?
American mainstream media has no journalistic standards and lacks any ethics. The only place you will find standards and ethics is in some dusty old text book in a college library. It is time we, the people, held them accountable.
It is time for the media to put Hillary under the same microscope as the rest of the candidates or to treat the others the same way they are treating Hillary.