In question and answer interviews that news media journalists have with company CEOs, high ranking politicians, Hollywood movie or music stars or anyone famous, why do they rarely ever ask really tough questions to those they are interviewing?
For example, if a journalist is interviewing an international, industrialist CEO profiteer, why not ask the CEO, “So how many families in America did you disrupt, bankrupt or destroy by moving your manufacturing plant to a human rights violating country overseas for cheap labor, exploiting children, prison, even slave labor possibly in some cases?” And before the stunned CEO profiteer could even answer, if the so-called journalists were really good at their craft and had been well prepared before the interview, journalists would come right back at the bewildered CEO profiteer with a follow up question of, “Do you want me to tell you how many American families you disrupted or destroyed when you moved your manufacturing plant overseas to exploit that country’s cheap labor?
Or what about asking former presidents of the U.S., “So how many American families were destroyed with your wars in Iraq…. and Afghanistan? Do you want me to tell you?” (The answers are at least 5000 Americans killed and 10,000 Americans wounded = 15,000 American families destroyed by fighting in Iraq and 2900 Americans killed, American families destroyed by fighting in Afghanistan.)
And before the former president of the U.S. walks out of the interview the journalist would ask, “So how can you sleep at night knowing this Mr. President?”
Or another question to a former U.S. president could be, “Why Mr. President don’t you pay back to the U.S. government the 25 million dollars it cost U.S. taxpayers over a yearlong investigation to get you to finally admit that you lied to the American people?” You told everyone in America, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” when, in fact, you were a married man and you did have oral sex with a young intern in the White House.
Or when a pro-choice abortion advocate is interviewed and the abortion advocate supports the right of the mother to kill an unborn child, why doesn’t the journalist ever ask what rights does the unborn child have? And how many mothers’ lives have been saved and how many children have been aborted so far in America since the law was passed to legalize abortion? And if the journalist was really prepared for the interview beforehand the journalist would ask, “Do you want me to tell you how many?”
And if the journalist really wanted to go out on a limb, and if the high ranking or famous person being interviewed by this time was even still in the room for the interview, the journalist could say, “What do you say to people who believe in vigilante justice when a country’s population gives its leaders and high profile privileged types too much freedom and leniency for their corrupt behavior? Or when the U.S. justice system fails to deliver punishment that fits the crime?” In fascist countries, like China, a company CEO can be sentenced to death for corporate white collar crime.
U.S. citizens who want to hold their leaders, and others, seriously accountable for their corrupt actions would charge that maybe those American families destroyed in the process, by the corrupt behavior of a few, the victims’ families should possibly have the right to consider vigilante justice for restitution against the perpetrators of the corrupt actions for those found guilty and convicted in a U.S. court of law for corrupt acts against innocent victims. This way the convicted criminals’ families could feel what it is like to have a family disrupted or destroyed. Dire consequences for those convicted of crimes against innocent victims may inhibit some crimes from even being committed. For example, it is a shame that too many people in the USA cannot walk the streets at night in poorer neighborhoods without possibly getting robbed, abducted or killed.
Some say the way to cut down some of the violent crime in America is if the victim or victim’s family does not like the U.S. justice system’s penalty for a crime, then the victim’s family should have the right to mete out the punishment on the convicted criminal for the crime. Or, of course, the victim or victim’s family could choose the traditional way of punishment that fits the crime and let the U.S. system of justice mete out the punishment.
However, if the victim or victim’s families do not have the stomach to deliver the punishment they see fit to the convicted criminal, punishment that comes close to what the victim suffered during commission of the violent crime, then the victim or victim’s family should be able to hire someone like a vigilante, mercenary, hangman or “hired gun”-type to mete out the punishment the victim or victim’s family so desires, without interference from the state, federal government, justice system or activists. Some say this would add necessary scary consequences for those committing violent crimes against innocent victims and, in turn, possibly inhibit those thinking about committing violent crimes.
Of course, the answer to the original question posed here is, if a journalist ever did ask a truly tough question, the journalist would never ever again get an interview with any high ranking or famous people. And if the journalist had corporate conglomerate bosses the journalist would be fired on the spot for even asking disrespectful questions to the friends, cohorts, and some say corrupted co-conspirators, of the corporate conglomerate news media giants.
SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: ANONYMOUS INDEPENDENT THINKER 6/10/18