Posted on 02/04/2009 10:40:27 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
A NY Times best-selling author says the mainstream media has finally crossed the line and is now threatening America's democracy by moving from the role of just cheerleaders to active participants in the political arena.
Bernard Goldberg's latest book is called 'A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (and Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media.'
Goldberg says biased coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign shredded and irrevocably ended any trust in the mainstream media by most of the American public.
"This time they crossed a very bright line -- and it moved from media bias to media activism," the author contends.
"This time they were on a noble mission. This time they were trying to help elect a president for historical reasons.
They love Barack Obama because he was young, he was cool, he was black, and he was liberal."
But Goldberg says the media did not do themselves or the new president any favors. "When something goes wrong, he's going to have a hard fall because they made him out to be a kind of messiah," he adds.
"But it's not good for the rest of us. It's not good for the country because the press is supposed to be the watchdog of a very powerful government for all of us."
Goldberg questions how the media is going to cover somebody they "slobbered over so much."
“This time they crossed a very bright line — and it moved from media bias to media activism,”
This is correct——the so-called media are now nothing more then activists with a very large bullhorn.
they are nuts.
The MSM put him in office,,,and they will do their best to ENSURE HE REMAINS IN OFFICE.
Excuse me. Didn't the author just get through ranting about the media having too much power, yet he ends with giving the same media the power of watchdog for us all. No, thank you. The media's sole purpose is report. Report accurately. Nothing more. Nothing less.
My local newspaper has financial problems and endorsed Obama. People cancelled subscriptions, but they don't seem to care.
My local newspaper is not putting Obama's current problems on the front page, as they used to with Bush.
Yes
The MSM, in the eyes of anyone with any real intelligence, has shot itself in the heart with its across the board fawning worship of Obama and the Democrat Party. It was the same thing with Clinton; they shot themselves in the foot with their labored, painful excuse-making for him. Now, their self-inflicted wound has resulted in their own eventual demise.
I think Goldberg wants what you want: "The media's sole purpose is report. Report accurately. Nothing more. Nothing less."
That is so cool that someone wrote a book on it. I’m buying!
I don’t blame the MSM for putting him in office. Generic Democrat had such a huge natural advantage, there was no way someone like McCain was going to overcome that. Add in McCain’s fumbling of the economy issue, and at the end it didn’t matter what the Media thought.
The media has no credibility (or profits) and most Americans know it.
I love how the media is panicking over falling sales and ratings.
Now the Chinese are postioned to buy them out and fire them all.
Welcome to a much deserved hell you fascist idiotic bastards. They will be the most unemployable people in the country even when the economy picks up.
My local newspaper has financial problems and endorsed Obama. People cancelled subscriptions, but they don’t seem to care.
maybe they are expecting a bailout...:)
The cover is beautiful sitting there on the big bookstore new arrivals table.
Bernie is a good guy. He is an old line journalist that saw his profession dispoiled and five years ago began exposing it. He may make some money on his books but he cut himself off from the mainstream media big money by doing so.
Just turn off the damn TV and stop reading the asshats in the paper. Its all crap.
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