The Decline and Fall of the Daily Breeze

The Daily Breeze has become more left-leaning and less relevant in the expanding news culture. Everyone of us can be journalists, with our phones, our I-pads, our laptops.

There is no longer any reason why any of us have to tolerate the Fake News drivel which assaults us on the local and even the regional newspapers. The Los Angeles Times has become particularly odious, since they have embraced Trump derangement syndrome on an unprecedented level. Their editorial serious "Our Dishonest President" really exposed how dishonest the liberal media have become.

Rob Kuznia, the last great report
at the Daily Breeze

Now, what about the Daily Breeze? They have a Pulitzer Prize-winning reported named Rob Kuznia, He even celebrated the award one year after breaking the landmark corruption scandal of fired Centinela Valley Union High School District Superintendent Jose Fernandez.

He also celebrated with the remaining Daily Breeze staff after he had quit. Yes, he left the Daily Breeze even though he had reached the summit with the newspaper. What happened?

He shared with NPR:

The Daily Breeze won a Pulitzer Prize this week. Reporters Rob Kuznia and Rebecca Kimitch and Frank Suraci, an editor on the small-circulation Los Angeles County newspaper, won the local reporting Pulitzer for a series of stories they did about corruption in a local school district. By the time they received the award, one of the reporters was no longer in journalism - he couldn't afford it. Rob Kuznia now works in publicity at the University of Southern California, where the pay is better. He joins us from our studios in Culver City, Calif.

Ouch! That's terrible. The pay is that bad, that even the most qualified journalists like Rob would rather do something else for a living. That ceratinly says something about the remaining funds which keep hack journalists like Nick Green afloat. Does he even make money as one of the few remaining reporters for that newspaper?

Check out this exchange:

SIMON: Could you - I know you've been over this - could you tell us why you felt you had to leave journalism?

KUZNIA: Yes. I think there were two main reasons. First, I - you know, I could pay the rent. So it's not that I couldn't pay the rent, it's just that there wasn't much left after that. And my girlfriend and I were sort of just living paycheck-to-paycheck and doing just fine, you know. We weren't destitute, but we were saving nothing. And so yes, pay was definitely a big factor. And I think the other one, the other major factor, was more of a state-of-the-industry consideration interrelated with the pay issue. Print journalism, especially at the local level, is a scary place to be right now. And it felt like now that I'm pushing 40, it might be a good time to try something new and to obtain a new skill set.

The paper is going down the tubes, and they weren't making good money. 

I say "Good riddance" to the liberal press, although I am sad that Kuznia is no longer reporting. He actually did a pretty decent job as a writer and reporter. One thing also to keep in mind is that the rents have soared in Southern California. The liberal agenda which many of these media corporations have been pushing is now pushing out their workforce.

Now this was an interesting comment:

SIMON: Jobs are disappearing in orthodox journalism.

"Orthodox" journalism? What is that supposed to mean? I would submit, however, that this elitist attitude is one of the reasons why the liberal media is closing up shop. They act as though their profession has a hallowed aura around it, as though journalists and their filters are above criticism.

They have biases, just as everyone else. They will report certain stories with key edges to them, or they will ignore other stories altogether. The media has become more democratized, from the early days of the Drudge Report to the present day. It is now to easy for casual readers to compare different stories, and also find different slants--liberal and conservative, establishment and populist--for the journalism world to hide the fact that the mainstream press has embraced a liberal mindset and slanted the news accordingly.

Final Reflection

I think it's time for us to continue calling out the biased, slanted reporting of all media, and not hold back our derision. For decades, the large, corporate press held all the cards, and they determined which stories were heard, which stories were suppressed, and they decided which narratives they wanted to push.

Looking back at how destructive and distorted the mainstream media has been all these decades, I'm not surprised that President Richard Nixon had an Enemies List. A lot of the people in the press are deliberately misleading and untruthful.

Now they are reaping what they have sewn.

NPR Puts Compassion on Trial: "DACA Teachers Face Uncertain Future"

Why do we have to hear all these sob stories about illegal aliens in our country? Men and women who were brought into this country as children have no right to demand legal status or citizenship.

The fact that previous governments have unjustly complicated the immigration problem in this country with piece-meal amnesty does not justify throwing away the rule of law and the enforcement of our country's borders and sovereignty.

National Public Radio, however, is more interested in left-wing sound bites and talking points rather than discussion the truth about illegal immigration, the negative consequences imposed by illegal aliens displacing Americans, overwhelming our country's natural resources, and putting Americans' lives at risk.

Yet we still read the sob stories.

So, about 9,000 DACA teachers are going to be laid off.

Good!

There you have 9,000 positions that will open up for Americans to take. That's the way it should be.

Here's the story from National Public Radio--the same medium in which big names have stepped down because of their own spate of sexual misconduct.

Nearly 9,000 DACA Teachers Face An Uncertain Future

Maria Rocha, a third-grade teacher at the KIPP Esperanza Dual Language Academy in San Antonio, came to the U.S. from Mexico when she was 3 years old.

Let's go one step further. She didn't come to the United States on her own. Her parents brought her here. So what? She is in the country illegally, and she needs to be sent back to her home country.

Of the 690,000 undocumented immigrants now facing an uncertain future as Congress and President Trump wrangle over the DACA program are about 8,800 school teachers.

They should have never gotten those jobs, because President Obama should have never authorized such a corrupt, unconstitutional program in the first place.

The real possibility that they'll be deported if the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is allowed to expire has put enormous stress on them.

Too bad. What about the enormous stress placed on Americans? Our homeless, our veterans, and other at-risk populations deserve the attention of our local and state governments, not illegal aliens.

Maria Rocha, a teacher in San Antonio, Texas, says it's gut wrenching, but she's trying not to show it in front of her third-graders. Rocha has been teaching at KIPP Esperanza Dual-Language Academy for three years.

The KIPP Charter program needs to be investigated or defunded for taking those unconstitutional authorizations. THis is beyond outrageous.

It's even harder, she says, because some of her students are also at risk of being deported.

They have their parents, and those parents will return with the children to their home countries, and they can come back legally.

"It's a very touchy subject with 8-9 year olds," says Rocha. "But they're aware of this because they have family members who are undocumented themselves, so their families talk about it."

Undocumented" is not going to soft-pedal the truth that these individuals are in the country illegally, and therefore they have neither right nor entitlement to live here. The do not get to enjoy the civil rights which belong to American citizens.

Rocha says a first-grade teacher and colleague at the school self-deported late last year after her DACA permit expired. Everybody at the school took it really hard, says Rocha, but there was nothing anybody could've done.

Self-deportations are real, and they are happening all over the country. This fact stands in contrast to the lies repeated by illegal alien activists all over the country who claim that this country cannot deport all 11-16 million illegal aliens.

More of them will begin self-deporting when they realize that state and federal governments are fully enforcing our nation's laws. That will cut down on the time, costs, and resource uses which these traitors claim is such a costly hindrance to enforcement.

School districts in Texas and across the country have hired teachers covered by DACA on the condition that they renew their work permit every two years, as the program requires. But last September, after President Trump announced he was shutting down DACA, these teachers suddenly found the safety and security the program had offered up in the air.

They should have never had them in the first place. Why would the school districts hire these illegals in the first place? What an abuse of public funds. Someone needs to pass a law in Austin and every other state legislature to end the practice of hiring foreign nationals using unauthorized permits.

"I'm trying to remain positive and try to compose myself every day with my students, Rocha says, "because I talk to them about their future and yet I don't know my own."

She needs to join her colleagues and self-deport to her own country.

Rocha was a toddler when she and her grandmother left Coahuila, Mexico, and entered the U.S. illegally. In June 2012, right around the time Rocha turned 25, DACA went into effect. Rocha qualified and immediately her life changed.

How many other lives have been changed? Let's talk about Tierra Stansberry, who along four other Americans was murdered by an illegal alien "dreamer" named Johnny Josue Sanchez. Those families will never see their children again. What about their dreams?

What about Ruben Morfin, Drew Rosenberg, Jamiel Shaw Jr., Dominic Durden, Ronald de Silva, and the average of 25 Americans a day murdered by illegal aliens in our own country? Their situation is worse than deportation to another country. They are dead, and there is no longer a country on this earth for them.

"I was living in the shadows because of fear," she says. "I didn't want my family targeted because they're also undocumented. But with DACA I was no longer afraid."

Americans are living in the shadows today because our needs, our concerns for public safety are not being met. Police officers are ordered to stand down when Antifa thugs attack innocent civilians.

Before then, Rocha had been working as a housekeeper while holding down two other jobs to pay for her college education.

Most Americans have been unable to get work because illegal aliens have been undercutting the job market, forcing down wages with the abundance of labor.

When she graduated with a teaching degree from the University of Texas-San Antonio, it was the fulfillment of a childhood dream — to be a teacher.

Now she can be a teacher in Mexico or any other country where she can legally immigrate too. Nothing is necessarily preventing her dreams. She can still pursue them in Mexico. What about our American Dreamers?

"I just purchased my first car in December," says Rocha. "We've done things the right way. We were told to go to school, make a career. But now we're at the mercy of the stroke of a pen."

Blame Barack Obama for leaving you at the mercy of a pen. He had no right to authorize that corrupt executive order in the first place. It's not the fault of the American public that Mexico turned into a failed state, and that therefore citizens in that country have refused to take up arms and fight back.

Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg of the Legal Aid and Justice Center, an advocacy group in Virginia, says that if lawmakers don't restore DACA, Rocha and people like her will be forced to recede back into the shadows.

They should be forced to return to their home countries. Rocha herself just reported that her colleagues self-deported. The New York Times followed the story of a handful of illegals in different states, and all of them packed up their lives and moved to their home countries. They managed just fine.

"We're talking about huge numbers of people with work permits, who've built a solid working class or middle class existence," he says, "who will immediately be punched into poverty."

No they have not. Illegal aliens commit disproportionately more crimes. They are heavily dependent on government benefits.

Some legal experts say the courts could still intervene. Teachers unions and the National School Boards Association for example are backing a lawsuit filed last month in New York that could prevent school districts from firing teachers whose DACA permits expire.

Not going to happen. The DOJ already fast-tracked their appeal against a San Francisco district court ruling, and they will do the same with a New York state challenge, too.

Maria Rocha says she survived before DACA and she'll survive after DACA.

Exactly. She needs to get busy making her life ready for herself in her home country. She can make it.

Rocha says she's thought about quitting her graduate studies. "Why continue to work if my work permit is going to expire? But no one is ever going to un-educate me."

"Mama dice que es ser bendecida," Rocha says in Spanish: My mom says I'm blessed, because of DACA.

Now, the question is, will lawmakers in Washington see it that way?

Nope, especially the Democratic Party, which has no other interest than perpetuating their power at the expense of everyone else.

Final Reflection

It's time for Congress to cut government funding to National Public Radio.