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We have certainly seen the bias in the past, and recognized its effect, but it had never been to this degree - where a national and international media are ganging up with a political party in attempts to ruin a man and to, sinply, change the (remaining) soul of what our nation is.

It always seems like it's worse now than ever. Barry Goldwater complained about it after the '64 election.

Ann Coulter analyzes the Florida 2000 aftermath correctly when she points out that the following morning TV journalists could talk of nothing else but the correct call by a Bush cousin of FL for Bush six hours after the last vote was cast. She notes that anything they said aganist that cousin's call for Bush betrayed the fact that they perfectly well knew how their own earlier call for Gore had skewed the race in FL.

After the 2000 election I wanted Republicans (as a class of individuals, not the political party officially) to sue the FCC and the broadcasters over the calling of Florida before the last vote was cast in the state, on the grounds that - knowing only what we knew at the moment the broadcasters called FL for Gore - we would as a class have been willing to pay a lot of money to keep that (erroneous, we now know) call from being broadcast. Didn't you feel injured by that call when it occurred?

The change of subject from their own botch failed coup attempt to the Bush cousin's correct call with no effect on the actual voting is quite typical of journalism and illustrates the point that story selection gives journalists freedom that they pretend not to have. They pretend to give "just the facts," but the question always is, "Facts about what?" By constantly bringing up new stories journalism flees from its own mistakes and deceits into the fog of current events (which in wartime is known as "the fog of war").

Journalism as a profession is as much inclined to conspire against the public as any other busines, and indeed more so. They conspire in open print on their own pages to avoid flame wars among themselves by competing only within the framework of the negative, superficial, unrepresentative stories so typical of journalism. "Objective" journalism is a framework which inherently presents the results of freedom as "problems" for government to "solve" with the snake oil nostrum of the bureaucrat.

Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate

[E.G.C.]

Media bias bump.