Posted on 03/04/2009 8:41:02 AM PST by Shellybenoit
During the course of the recent political campaign the public began to realize that in most cases, Journalistic Integrity is a thing of the past. Media consumers were exposed to some of the most blatant skewed reporting since William Randolf Hearst's NY Journal helped to create the Spanish-American War with Biased Reporting.
Sometimes the biased reporting does not involved skewing a story one way or another, sometimes they just hide the the news. This is what the Press does with most reports that put radical Islam in a bad light.
It might be due to an over active "political correctness" gene, or perhaps something more nefarious, but the fact is the American public is being kept in the dark about much of what radical Islam is doing in the US and across the world:
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They Liberals live in some world where evil does not exist, so they decide to cram their views down our throats by not showing us the true world.
the extremists arent even human, they are animals, they way they kill, their fighting tactics, its just disgusting. If the people really got to see what they were like I would think many people would be pissed at Obama.
“blatant skewed reporting”?....
I’m sorry!...It was much worse than that as were the consequences. Their distorted and biased reporting help land a pack of radical socialist loones in the White House!
That's the money quote right there. Unbiased, fair, even simply decent and complete reporting died a couple of decades ago. Probably 95% or more of what gets reported as "news" really belongs on the op-ed page - it is pure opinion, spin, and editorial.

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