One category of serial killers is family annihilators. These are deranged killers who wipe out their families for various reasons. An example is the bodyguard for a prominent televangelist Joyce Meyer, who murdered his wife and two sons. The family annihilator, Chris Coleman, was trying to cover-up an adulterous affair. He was found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder and is serving three consecutive life sentences.

As a long-time media critic, I would add the category of “nation annihilators.” These are the Islamists, communists, and anarchists and their allies, many in the hate-America media, who hide behind the First Amendment as they destroy our nation and other nations. Their current targets are Trump and Israel.

We must demand media accountability for their crimes.

Former Trump official Joe Kent, once a favorite of the Stephen K. Bannon “Real America’s Voice” channel, is now in the news, having just resigned after claiming that President Trump is a puppet of Israel. Fox News’ favorite leftist Glenn Greenwald has praised “Joe Kent's courage and conscience.”

The Iranian Regime Has Lost the War

But the establishment journal Foreign Affairs reports that the Iranian regime and its proxies in the “resistance” have been virtually destroyed as a military force, providing the reasons in an article,titled “The Stunning Failure of Iranian Deterrence.” One flaw in the Iranian plan was that it “publicized the progress it was making in technologies relevant to building nuclear weapons,” therefore inviting the attacks now taking place.

Yet Joe Kent, former National Counterterrorism Center Director, resigned, claiming Iran was not an imminent threat. No wonder it is reported that he was under investigation for leaking.

In what is being called “the first AI war,” the United States has a major advantage, with Palantir CEO Alex Karp telling CNBC that his company’s technology is being used in the war in the Middle East to great effect, with the implication that artificial intelligence has been used to target and kill Iranian leaders.

Despite this success, commentators such as Joan Swirsky cite “the actual pandemic of anti-Semitism” that is emerging in the world and which has “made seemingly normal people – including heads of many governments and once-objective political commentators like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens – side with the murderers of 1,200 innocent Israelis” on October 7, 2023.

In this regard, it is important to note that the Wall Street Journal, considered by many to be pro-business and relatively conservative, was infiltrated by a closet Marxist who manipulated coverage of current events. Could it happen again? Perhaps it is happening now.

While 81 percent view the U.S. military favorably—according to a Rasmussen poll—Americans' trust in newspapers, television, and radio to report the news objectively is at 28 percent, according to Gallup. That’s quite a contrast.

It means that the achievements of our military war fighters are at risk of deliberate distortion by the media.

Regarding those media with federal licenses to operate, the Federal Communications Commission declares that “broadcast licensees may not intentionally distort the news” and that “rigging or slanting the news is a most heinous act against the public interest.”

The same warnings should apply to the print press.

TDS and Liberal Bias

Many distrust the media but the subversive press, when combined with Trump Derangement Syndrome and anti-Israel sentiment, can have a powerful effect. Together, these currents feed into the rise of anti-Semitism and a series of domestic terrorist incidents.

President Trump recently cited the New York Times and Wall Street Journal because they “actually want us to lose the war” in Iran. This is important since the fake news can have an impact on whether the U.S. wins the war, and whether the American people support it. Many can’t believe the Journal would be part of this cabal.

The president’s statement was, “The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal in particular, and other lowlife papers and media, actually want us to lose the war.”

The role of the Times comes as no surprise.

Herbert Matthews of the New York Times whitewashed Fidel Castro’s devotion to communism, and the “fourth floor” of the U.S. State Department played a role, as Ambassador to Cuba Earl E.T. Smith once described the traitors in one part of the U.S. government who brought communism to the Western hemisphere.

Walter Duranty is the New York Times journalist who claimed that Soviet Russia presented no external threat to its neighbors and that the Stalin-induced Great Famine in Ukraine which killed seven to ten million never occurred. Duranty received the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of life in the USSR, even though his dispatches were cleared by Soviet officials and were thus sanitized of the purges and artificial famines that would kill millions.

Duranty’s crimes were exposed by Dr. Paul Kengor in the America’s Survival book, All The Dupes Fit To Print: Journalists Who Have Served As Tools Of Communist Propaganda.

The Journal’s Malpractice

Now we turn to the Wall Street Journal, which is part of News Corp, the firm controlled by Australian billionaire Rupert Murdoch and his family. This conglomerate also includes Fox News and all its affiliates, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal (Dow Jones & Company), and the New York Post.

According to the progressive publication The Nation, A. Kent McDougall had a 24-year career as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times, later admitting that he “helped popularize radical ideas” as a “usually covert, occasionally openly anti-Establishment reporter.” He came out as a Marxist and said he inserted positive stories about Marxist economists and “the left-wing journalist I.F. Stone,” identified as a member of the CPUSA and a Soviet agent of influence, into the Journal’s pages.

Not surprisingly, he then became a Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.

After Kent MacDougall came out of the Marxist closet, Dr. Lawrence Cranberg, son of Curtis MacDougall, commented, "Like father, like son, both in opinions and tactics."

Curtis MacDougall (1903-1985), the author of Interpretative Reporting, was labeled one of the “makers of the media mind” in a book by William David Sloan. Interpretative Reporting was a standard text in journalism schools for more than 50 years. It was my textbook when I studied journalism.

I discovered that this journalism “educator” was investigated by the FBI because of his role as a fellow traveler of the Communist Party with ties to Soviet agents.

Cranberg told me that he had visited Curtis MacDougall a few years before his death and that MacDougall “confided to me that he considered the Soviet system far superior to our own.”

As late as 1978, Curtis MacDougall wrote a column hailing Fidel Castro as “a man with a vision, program and record of achievement.” He called the Communist dictator a “world statesman.”

He succeeded in poisoning the minds of many journalists. This is why journalists’ credibility has reached a new low.

Exposing Journalistic Malpractice

To rectify this, I have proposed, “All the Dupes Fit to Print: An Undergraduate Lesson Plan to Introduce Students to Journalistic Malpractice,” focusing on such matters as the suppression of the news about the Ukrainian Holodomor of 1932 – 1933 and the work of Herbert Matthews in Cuba.

With your support, we can begin the process of getting this curriculum into the colleges and universities.

Such a lesson plan would offer journalism students a chance to analyze cases of journalistic malpractice that affected the historical outcome and remembrance of a significant world event.

Interestingly, on March 16, Mark Penn and Andrew Stein wrote a column for the Wall Street Journal noting that “President Trump’s complaints about the news coverage of the Iran war are predictable—and entirely justified.”

But they didn’t mention the Journal, instead focusing on the Times.

They quoted Trump as saying, “We are totally destroying the terrorist regime of Iran, militarily, economically, and otherwise, yet, if you read the Failing New York Times, you would incorrectly think that we are not winning.”

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shared the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) op-ed co-authored by former Clinton adviser Mark Penn and former New York City Council President Andrew Stein. The piece was titled “On Iran, Is Only Bad News Fit to Print?”

She said, “We are combatting the Fake News daily at the White House, and it’s safe to say the American left-wing media is sadly rooting for President Trump, and therefore the United States Military, to fail.”

But what about the Journal? The op-ed page is separate from the news pages.

Supporters of Israel say that Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief and British journalist Emma Tucker is “making changes at the venerable publication” on the news pages in a direction that is designed to make Israel look like an aggressor in the region. The watchdog group CAMERA refers to “The growing, undeniable tilt against Israel in Wall Street Journal news coverage since the October 7 Hamas attack on the Jewish state,” adding that it “appears connected to a change in focus” under Emma Tucker.

Her bio says, “Emma Tucker is editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires. She is responsible for all global news gathering and editorial operations.”

The Jerusalem Post refers to the Journal’s news coverage of Israel and its current war as “increasingly problematic,” citing the paper’s “false moral equivalence between the Hamas invaders who murdered 1,200 people that day [October 7] and the Israelis defending themselves, whom the paper accused of escalating the hostility.”

It explained, “This is especially disappointing considering its positive reputation and its status as America’s top circulation newspaper, with more than three million digital subscribers and 649,000 print subscriptions.”

Pamela Geller calls this problem the “ENEMEDIA,” a combination of “media” and “enemy,” designed to propagate a defeatist narrative for Israel and the United States. This is why Trump calls the fake news “the enemy of the people.”