If this presidential election has taught us anything about the media, then a great many of us have learned that the traditional media as a whole is no doubt entering an age of overt and unabashed bias…
For years and year conservatives have harped on the media’s covert and hidden agenda, but it has not been until the past few years as we have entered into this presidential race that we have seen it come out of the darkness of newsroom discussions into the light of our daily papers and television reporting…
The left can do the same thing as the right and complain about the same type of bias and unfairness to their camp (and they have through websites and organizations such as Media Matters), but in reality, their argument holds no water once you get past their obsession with getting Fox News taken off the air…
That being said, there is an article floating out there today authored by a writer who is described as a Democrat but who is also a newspaper columnist living in Greensboro, NC…I found the link on Drudge, but you can find it here…
In the article, this journalist takes on the rest of his brethren in a very hard-hitting, detailed, and calm sort of way…He does not attack personally, but rather he carefully and easily lays out his case for a media failing to do its job and live up to its role starting with a look at the financial crisis and a subsequent look at the presidential race…
Here is a sampling:
“These are facts. This financial crisis was completely preventable. The party that blocked any attempt to prevent it was … the Democratic Party. The party that tried to prevent it was … the Republican Party.
Yet when Nancy Pelosi accused the Bush administration and Republican deregulation of causing the crisis, you in the press did not hold her to account for her lie. Instead, you criticized Republicans who took offense at this lie and refused to vote for the bailout!
What? It’s not the liar, but the victims of the lie who are to blame?
Now let’s follow the money … right to the presidential candidate who is the number-two recipient of campaign contributions from Fannie Mae.
And after Freddie Raines, the CEO of Fannie Mae who made $90 million while running it into the ground, was fired for his incompetence, one presidential candidate’s campaign actually consulted him for advice on housing.
If that presidential candidate had been John McCain, you would have called it a major scandal and we would be getting stories in your paper every day about how incompetent and corrupt he was.
But instead, that candidate was Barack Obama, and so you have buried this story, and when the McCain campaign dared to call Raines an “adviser” to the Obama campaign — because that campaign had sought his advice — you actually let Obama’s people get away with accusing McCain of lying, merely because Raines wasn’t listed as an official adviser to the Obama campaign.
You would never tolerate such weasely nit-picking from a Republican.”
Simply put, it is a very well-written and insightful article regarding the current hypocritical bias quickly killing the mainstream media…
So check it out if you want; hopefully you will enjoy the article as much as I did…
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