Posted on 07/25/2008 7:52:50 AM PDT by Daytyn71
The New York Times' refusal to publish John McCain's rebuttal to Barack Obama's Iraq op-ed may be the most glaring example of liberal media bias this journalist has ever seen. But true proof of widespread media bias requires one to follow an old journalism maxim: Follow the money.
Even the Associated Press — no bastion of conservatism — has considered, at least superficially, the media's favoritism for Barack Obama. It's time to revisit media bias.
True to form, journalists are defending their bias by saying that one candidate, Obama, is more newsworthy than the other. In other words, there is no media bias. It is we, the hoi polloi, who reveal our bias by questioning the neutrality of these learned professionals in their ivory-towered newsrooms.
Big Media applies this rationalization to every argument used to point out bias. "It's not a result of bias," they say. "It's a matter of news judgment."
And, like the man who knows his wallet was pickpocketed but can't prove it, the public is left to futilely rage against the injustice of it all.
The "newsworthy" argument can be applied to every metric — one-sided imbalances in airtime, story placement, column inches, number of stories, etc. — save one.
(Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...
http://www.williamrussellforcongress.com/
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/07/23/bill-russell-the-man-who-could-topple-john-murtha/
Cheers All !!
We sent our first donation to McCain the other day — hope to send more.
They say Obama is more newsworthy, then they don’t report anything negative about his campaign. I don’t pay any attention to them, and I don’t know why anyone else does.
Ironically, the media do poorly in communist dictatorships.
That’s an underestimation. It doesn’t even count the in kind donations of media coverage and spin.
I could be wrong but I don’t think American voters like being told who to vote for by the MSM.
LLS
This means nothing. What really counts is that Helen Thomas doesn’t know of a single liberal in the media.
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