It is worse than shabby journalism, but at least Veronica de la Cruz did not give a one-sided platform to Tahirih.
Fred talked with this dishonest "journalist" for a long time about IMBRA. She knew about it up and down and still did a hit piece.
Her main problem was with age difference dating. She went for an extreme example of a 21 year old looking for a man between 50 and 60 (you would never normally see this).
This is outright war by bitter, feminist American women against American men with the bitter feminists in complete charge of the major media.
And it is so clear that the thing that irks the feminists the most is age difference dating. It apparently eats at them although the average age difference in international marriages is only eight years, which is more than reasonable.
Reasonable, except for the fact that, if social globalization causes American males to move enmasse toward the 15 year average, the fabric of American society would rip at the seams.
American society is uniquely unprepared for social globalization.
What really bothers me is that Fred was so trusting.
Wasn't there a bird that is now extinct because it just stood there while hunters clubbed all the birds around it to death?
He let us all know about his CNN Interview a few days ago.
I wanted the name and phone number of the CNN producer so we could all go to work on sounding her out on what kind of story she wanted to write. But Fred kept that to himself, apparently assuming that Veronica was being friendly and straitforward and he could handle her himself.
We cannot do that. ODR regulars learned long ago that sharing journalist contacts was an imperative.
I always tell Tristan and Dave about journalists who are nibbling around the edges of IMBRA and came about
www.VeteransAbroad.com.
It made Fred look isolated that the producer was protected from a half dozen experts who could show that what he had to say was a big deal and that the broader issue of VAWA brings in millions of men who have political power (unfortunately just a negative power to teach the Republican Party a lesson by defeating them in favor of our real enemies).
Then again, considering Veronica's bias, it was perhaps best that it ended up being as much a puff piece (no real content) as a hit piece. IMBRA was not mentioned at all, but nor was "a need to regulate dating" mentioned.
Nobody put down a transcript or posted what the CNN report said.
That is bad journalism on our part.
Please post what videos say. Not everybody can access video all the time when they read ODR.
Synopsis of video:
1) Good looking young Asian woman is separated from her American husband although she still loves him and would like to get back with him. He rejected her for some reason.
Considering this is CNN, Veronica de la Cruz could have been interviewing a woman who was actually beaten and did not want to be back with the husband.
2) Veronica does a good job of showing that some sites in the dating industry itself promote the term "mail order bride" for Google searches and Veronica uses this as an excuse to use the term herself. What she fails to understand is that there is no excuse for using the term to deliberately demean the foreign women and/or make it like they are less mature and progressive than American women.
3) The show was entirely about Filipinas. They interviewed the Gabriela Network, a radfem organization, but the slander of American men was kept to a relative minimum.
Fred got a good 30 seconds where she was polite about how he and his wife operated a legitimate site and Fred and his wife have children, etc.
4) The worst slander came from a good-looking famous male whose clip was taken from a talk-show appearance of some kind where he said over a ten second clip that "these men take advantage of disadvantaged women to exploit them".
5) Veronica used the murder of the Filipina in Oregon 12 years ago. She showed a dead body being loaded into an ambulance.
6) The clip ended with the attractive young Filipina saying that she would still like to get back with her husband.
Then Veronica expressed outrage that she was working at Walmart for $7.50 per hour while she was waiting to be deported.
All in all, a dishonest hit piece considering Veronica de la Cruz was actually much, much more informed on the serious constitutional crisis we are facing with this gateway law to Internet Regulation.
But it could have been much worse.
I found it sad that CNN followed this piece with a male teenager in the US fighting slavery. He was not fighting the dating industry, but the piece on his being "a CNN hero" was deliberately placed after the bride piece in order to create an "association" in the minds of some CNN.com readers.
