Posted on 03/24/2003 2:42:34 PM PST by KansasConservative1
Specifically with this war and the embedded reporters, the media has enough material to actually keep it busy. I noted in the past that the downfall in the media was the advent of 24 hour news stations. Before the 24 hour news stations, the media was stuck with the 5:00 and 10:00 news hours, the facts were reported and they had little time for anything else. With the 24 hour news stations, during times of peace or times of little information, they spend the majority of the time editorializing. It is during this editorializing that they stray from neutral journalism and bias to the left. The embedded journalist program is really a stroke of brilliance. The most liberal news stations are so busy WOWing their audiences with the images from our heroic troops that they have little, if any, time to pay heed to ignorant protesters.
Yesterday in the car I was talking to a friend and I came up with the statement An Idle Press is the Liberal Playground I think this sums it up. I say embed them, befriend them, keep them busy and use them to spread the good news of our troops and their heroism!
KansasConservative1
I pretty much disagree. I think the three major networks were just as biased before 24 hour news. I also think NBC/CBS/ABC are currently more liberally biased in their "news" than the average of MSNBC, FOX, and CNN in thier news and edtitorial content combined.
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