Posted on 09/15/2008 5:44:58 AM PDT by Invisigoth
The Media Research Center has quantified, documented and exposed media bias for its 20 years of existence. But media bias has a new dimension – media garbage, which is false information or unsubstantiated rumors.
Media garbage is an outgrowth of the speed and proliferation of 24/7 news, the Internet, the blogosphere and the race to be the first to report a sensational story, sensationalize a non-story or capture the often-desired mantel of journalistic achievement called “gotcha”.
Ever since Dan Rather of CBS News was fired for insisting that phony National Guard records about President Bush were true, most media outlets have been more careful about accuracy, but most have not tempered their bias tendencies.
Now that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has confiscated the rock star status from Sen. Barack Obama, the liberal left is working overtime to try to destroy her reputation and suitability to be vice president of the United States. Without much substance for their mission, a lot of cyberspace garbage has surfaced, much of which has been false.
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Sorry, this is not new. Lies are lies and have always been lies. If there are more lies the crasser our culture becomes, that makes sense to me. There is nothing special about these times, aside from their crassness.
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