25 Oct
Posted by MacRanger as News
By this time you should know that the media bias for Barack Obama begs a lack of reason. After all no intelligent person working in the media who calls themselves a “reporter” could possibly keep a straight face and call Obama qualified for President. No real reporter can possibly excuse the fact that 90 percent of the reportable stories about Obama were in fact ignored and not reported.
Journalist Michael S. Malone of Silicon Insider says he’s ashamed to be called a journalist in light of the media’s collective butt-munch of everything Obama.
“The sheer bias in the print and television coverage of this election campaign is not just bewildering, but appalling. And over the last few months I’ve found myself slowly moving from shaking my head at the obvious one-sided reporting, to actually shouting at the screen of my television and my laptop computer.
But worst of all, for the last couple weeks, I’ve begun — for the first time in my adult life — to be embarrassed to admit what I do for a living. A few days ago, when asked by a new acquaintance what I did for a living, I replied that I was “a writer”, because I couldn’t bring myself to admit to a stranger that I’m a journalist.”
This isn’t hard to understand if you know journalist as I do. I remember how when in college during my journalism classes how were taught to put ourselves on the precipice of history whenever we could. Every journalist dreams of being on the ground when history is being made and what better place to be than to “be there” when America elects the first black man to the White House?
Go back and review the coverage of the last months of this election and you will see a media that hasn’t reported the election as it has tried to shape it. Any reporting on Obama has read not as journalism, but as almost Obama campaign talking points as indeed it has been found that the campaign has fed them to the media from day one.
Should Obama win the question will not be whether or not the Republican party can recover, but whether the media – which sold it’s soul – can.
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One Response
retire05
October 25th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
1Mac, are you surprised? I’m not. When you took those journalism classes, did your professor not hold Walter Cronkite up as a god?
The media has always been biased, but until this year they attempted to cloak it. Journalists were once taught to report the news, and let the chips fall where they may. They were taught that a good reporter gave the facts of his story, but never, ever allowed his personal view to shine through. That was the mark of a good story. You had the facts but did not know how the reporter felt about those facts.
Now, all pretense at non-biased reporting has fallen by the wayside. Journalists, who are as a majority liberal, have reduced themselves to highly paid op-ed writers with no doubt how they personally feel.
Journalism, long since on life support, has finally taken it’s last breath. And Americans are beginning to realize that. Yesterday, the New York Times’ stock was reduced to junk status.
That should tell you all you need to know.
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