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The Carriage Horse
Issue: challenging and disputing the
rampant lies of the carriage trade - a new mini-blog focusing on one issue at time
BOGUS: polls showing 60% of people opposed to a carriage horse ban
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| (c) Mary Culpepper |
Since 2006,
every poll taken about a carriage horse ban has shown between 75 and 80% of
respondents in favor of a ban. So what
happened? In a nutshell – the Daily News
has been allowed to control the dialogue with their half truths, specious omissions and outright lies. This is not the way a newspaper is supposed to behave.
If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth – Often attributed to the Nazi propagandist Joseph
Goebbels, it has a lot of truth and should be fair warning to thinkers that the
same thing is happening in NYC.
Mayor deBlasio won the mayoral primary in September
but he was not endorsed by any of the local newspapers. The
editorial boards in NYC are mostly right wing conservative and were not happy
about this. The Daily News began a hatched job on the
mayor – ripping into him almost every day – publishing the most bizarre yellow
journalism articles filled with lies and exaggerations. Mort Zuckerman had enjoyed privileges at City
Hall under Mayor Bloomberg that he expected to continue under a Quinn
administration.
When
it seemed that Mayor deBlasio was serious about banning the horse-drawn
carriages, The DN took the lead on this issue going so far as to launch a
petition. The editor in chief of the DN
is a transplant from Rupurt Murdoch’s failed UK paper. Other
editorial boards, including the NY Times, NY Post, AM-NY and TV stations like
Fox News, NY1, and Pix 11 followed. Many
reporters have continued to promote the drivers’ lies as their opinions shift
into supposedly fact driven articles.
The carriage trade hired the infamous anti-animal Cavalry Group to fight
this battle for them. This is the
anti-animal lobby group that supports puppy mills, horse slaughter and a
weakening of animal cruelty laws around the country. The Teamsters have also joined the fray,
going against the first pro union mayor in decades – a very foolish action.
There’s been no fact checking, no investigative journalism
and gratuitous dishonesty. Unfortunately,
people will often believe what they hear on TV or read in the newspapers
without questioning. This is why the media is so powerful. We
have been cut out of interviews and ignored.
The truth about this inhumane and very unsafe industry is not getting
out there.
The Daily News does not care about the horses or the
drivers. Instead, they are being used as
poster children - a metaphor for deBlasio’s progressive agenda. If the right wing media can get deBlasio to
cry uncle on this issue, this will open the door to other things. And he will likely lose the next election
because he flip flopped.
So when you hear about the Quinnipiac poll showing 60% of
respondents opposed to a ban – you must also realize that these polls were
taken after an extended brainwashing period.
Polls like this are meaningless to critical thinkers.
Will Mayor deBlasio be strong enough to stand up to this and keep his word -- or will he cave? Only time will tell.
Will Mayor deBlasio be strong enough to stand up to this and keep his word -- or will he cave? Only time will tell.
Do you want Mort Zuckerman/disgruntled Daily News owner; the Teamsters; Liam Neeson; and the carriage drivers running NYC - or do you want the man you voted for - Mayor deBlasio?
Please wake up to this. Nazi Germany happened because people were not paying attention.
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