Dr. Oz no longer a "cool kid"

Media attacks when narrative fits a pre-conceived notion of "The Truth"

(NaturalNews) In recent days, Columbia University's School of Journalism announced its 2015 Pulitzer Prize winners , and the list contained many of the usual suspects.picked up a couple more awards for a political corruption story, Ebola coverage and international reportage;won for an investigative hit piece against healthcare providers who manipulate Medicare; thewon for reporting how the state's extreme drought has affected the "human condition"; a smaller South Carolina paper won a prize for reporting violence against women; thepicked up a Pulitzer for photography during the Ferguson riots; some guy won the Poetry Pulitzer for revealing the "scope of African-American experience" through poems that drew from "slave narratives."And so forth. In other words, these mainstream papers "went after" stories where reporters and editors had already decided the outcome, and as usual, Columbia University rewarded their pre-conceived orthodoxy as members of the journalistic "cool kids club."Why does this matter? Because it helps explain how a man like Dr. Oz could be so savagely attacked by a media so willing to pile on this suddenly not-so-cool kid without bothering to actuallythe charges being made against him and, more importantly, by: When you're out of "the club," the cool kids have already decided you must be guilty as charged because thatAs noted by U.S. Right to Know (USRTK), a non-profit organization advocating for more openness in the food industry, recent hit pieces against Dr. Mehmet Oz , host of a popular daytime television program that often focuses on bogus conventional health treatments and alternative medicine choices, were perpetrated willingly by a mainstream media too trusting of "establishment" medical sources, most likely because Dr. Oz doesn't toe the cool club line.As USRTK noted in a press release about the Dr. Oz criticism:Slate"Dr. Oz has repeatedly shown disdain for science and for evidence-based medicine, as well as baseless and relentless opposition to the genetic engineering of food crops," says the letter, which was sent soon after Dr. Oz aired a show about glyphosate, the herbicide associated with most genetically engineered crops that was recently designated as a probable human carcinogen by the World Health Organization.The complaint to Columbia was signed by Dr. Henry I. Miller and nine colleagues, "all of whom are distinguished physicians," the letter claims.But are they really? As Dr. Bob Arnot, the chief medical correspondent for, noted during an appearance on CNN following the release of the letter, the attack against Dr. Oz appeared to be generated by the "doctors" more beholden to the GMO industry:[emphases added]USRTK has the skinny on the entire list of ten "impartial" doctors here The point is, the mainstream media -- always out to protect its PC credentials -- leapt on this story without first investigating it properly because it "fit" a pre-conceived "cool kid club" narrative, namely, that anyone who dares question the safety of genetically modifiedis a "quack" whose reputation has to be destroyed.Now, on to the next racially motivated riot and "investigation" into what is affecting the "human condition."