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Fox didn't kill the idea of the media, they just stabbed it several times, kicked it in the head, and backed over it in dumb truck filled with rightist propagada. It's not dead, just very badly injured. Fox is denying any involvement in the alleged assault.
Even the media knows that McCain is a bad choice. After 7.5 years of being willing accomplices to the Bush Admin., I think the thought of four more years of Bush/McCain is too much for even the useless mainstream media
oh yes, this is the point, they are supposed to be neutral just relaying information, but they aren't. they are steering the type of information portrayed in obama's favor. thank you for driving the point home
I think we should ask the tabloid National Enquirer to uncover whether Ayers and Obama were chummy while Obama was in college.
My solution is don't pay for their newspapers and don't watch their news shows (no ratings, hard to get advertising dollars). You have to hurt them in the pocketbook not just yell at them.
You can make up your mind very easily about this election without consulting the press. Just check the candidates' records on the issues from government websites and forget what they are saying and promising and what the media is slanting and ignoring.
oh yes, this is the point, they are supposed to be neutral just relaying information, but they aren't. they are steering the type of information portrayed in obama's favor. thank you for driving the point home
It is hard to make a turd shine, no matter how much the media were to try and shine it.
McCain's idea's, especially his plans for the economy and staying indefinitely in Iraq, are the turd
2008 The year the Republican's jumped up and down celebrating Senator Obama's 6 month steamrolling in the Press and whined their way through the last 4 Months. If anyone believes for one half second all of this whining and crying deserves one salty tear, they're fooling themselves. Senator McCain has been given a free ride, and the ammunition is there for any who would challenge the assertion. The Republican's have had it easy in no uncertain terms and this is very, very easy to establish.
Why are so many obama fanbois so scared to read an article, but will comment to defend him no matter what. its a liberal paper talking about how liberal the media and perhaps they over stepped the bounds of real journalism.
"The image of Barack Obama that the press has presented is not a fair approximation of the real man. They have consciously ignored whole years in his life, and showed a lack of curiosity about such gaps that bespeaks a lack of journalistic instinct. Thus, the public image of Mr. Obama is of a "Man who never was.""
"The mainstream media ruthlessly and endlessly repeats any McCain gaffes, while ignoring Obama gaffes. You have to go to weird little Internet sites to see all the stammering and stuttering that Mr. Obama needs before getting out a sentence fragment or two. But all you see on the networks is an eventual one or two clear sentences from Mr. Obama. Nor do you see Mr. Obama's ludicrous gaffe that Iran is a tiny country and no threat to us. Nor his 57 American states gaffe. Nor his forgetting, if he ever knew, that Russia has a veto in the United Nations. Nor his whining and puerile "come on" when he is being challenged. This is the kind of editing one would expect from Goebbels' disciples, not Cronkite's."
"But worse than all the unfair and distorted reporting and image projecting, is the shocking gaps in Mr. Obama's life that are not reported at all. The major media simply has not reported on Mr. Obama's two years at Columbia University in New York, where, among other things, he lived a mere quarter mile from former terrorist Bill Ayers— after which they both ended up as neighbors and associates in Chicago. Mr. Obama denies more than a passing relationship with Mr. Ayers. Should the media be curious? In only two weeks the media has focused on all the colleges Mrs. Palin has attended, her husband's driving habits 20 years ago and the close criticism of Mrs. Palin's mayoral political opponents. But in two years they haven't bothered to see how close Mr. Obama was with the terrorist Ayers. "
"Nor have the media paid any serious attention to Mr. Obama's rise in Chicago politics — how did honest Obama rise in the famously sordid Chicago political machine with the full support of Boss Daley? Despite the great — and unflattering details on Mr. Obama's Chicago years presented in David Freddoso's new book, the mainstream media continues to ignore both the facts and the book. It took a British publication, the Economist, to give Mr. Freddoso's book a review with fair comment."
"The public will be voting based on the idealized image of the man who never was. If he wins, however, we will be governed by the sunken, cynical man Mr. Obama really is. One can only hope that the senior journalists will be judged as harshly for their professional misconduct as Wall Street's leaders currently are for their failings."
oh yes, this is the point, they are supposed to be neutral just relaying information, but they aren't. they are steering the type of information portrayed in obama's favor. thank you for driving the point home
This is the way I'm seeing it too. Funny thing is that about a year or so ago, we had extensive discussions on the forums about media favoritism, and I defended the media as being generally objective.
But beginning with the coverage of Obama vs Clinton, I have seen a significant tilt in the print and television coverage, and selective use of items for highlighting the day.
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