[ken21]

i stopped subscribing to newspeak some twenty or thirty years ago.

[2banana]

The media need to examine their own bias and correct it, lest still more readers and viewers turn away in the face of their obvious manipulation of public opinion.

Too late! Heck - even the airport now has FOX news...

[hummingbird]

Newsweek is biased like the rest of the media elite [Dick Morris]

Brought to you from the pages of Norm McDonald's SNL Weekend Update magazine, "D'uh."

[McGavin999]

We are watching the media commit suicide. Wonder what they're planning on doing for a living after they kill the mainstream media jobs?

[Judith Anne]

Memo to Dicky Morris:

It's NOT the "media elite" lambkins. It's the media DREGS.

We out here in flyover country know when we're looking at 10 lbs of sh*t in a 5 lb bag. Are you just catching on?

[wvobiwan]

What we need is a high profile, trusted figure to raise the issue of liberal bias and spearhead a campaign to put those organizations out of business. Canceling subscriptions, publically calling to task the offenders, calling for resignations, and mass actions like petitions and email campaigns would be the tools.

If George Allen did this, combined with his stance on the illegal immigration issue, he'd be a shoo-in for President in 2008.

[The_Victor]

But when a Republican president is waging a war of which the left does not approve, a different journalistic standard appears to apply

This sentence needs revising:

But when a Republican is president a different journalistic standard appears to apply.

Much better.

[KC_Conspirator]

In fact, in all the years of the Clinton presidency, I cannot recall a single instance of a similarly inaccurate high-profile story attacking the Democratic president.

This article is very good. Morris remembers that era correctly.

[OKIEDOC]

Why are your federal tax dollars being used to pay the ACLU to bring frivolous lawsuits against you.</p>

Check it out.

[OKIEDOC]

Right on Dick.

The MSM can kick and scream all they want but their stupidity and ignorant left wing bias out weighs their ability to make the correct decisions when it comes to publishing fair and balanced news.

For the left this is a SNAFU that has become a regular part of of their operating procedures.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

In this article Dick Morris reminds us that:

• BBC maliciously, vociferously, and wrongly claimed that Blair "sexed up" prewar Iraq intel.
• CBS maliciously used transparent forgeries to attack Bush's TANG record.
• The NY Times launched an attack on the Bush Administration in the last week before the election, fraudulently claiming that the military had negligently allowed terrorists to steal 370 tons of explosives which it had control of.
• Newsweek has published - and had to retract - its inflammatory Koran abuse story.

Morris correctly summarizes these as political attacks against Bush, and concludes that, notwithstanding the constant scandal reports on the Cli;ton Administration, there was no negative reporting on that Administration which was not substantively, or entirely, true. Indeed he points out that Monicagate was broken by Drudge only because Newsweek was spiking the story lest it harm Clinton.

Morris then proceeds to lamely call on the MSM to " examine their own bias and correct it" - as if it were possible that the MSM had some doubt as to the political tendency it projects.

Morris makes half of a fine analysis. The truth is not only that the above facts are indisputable, but they omit such jewels of "objectivity" as

• wrongly calling of the Florida 2000 vote for Gore while Bush was ahead in the reported vote and polls in the panhandle were still open, and continuously insinuating afterward that Bush's win was tainted even after their own recounts showed otherwise.
• continuously portraying the impeachment of Bill Clinton (for lying to a judge under oath in a case he could have honorably settled out of court) as hypocritical harassment of Clinton's "personal life."
• And, worst of all IMHO, allowing FBI Filegate - between 900 and 2000 felony counts committed in the White House, and no Administration figure held politically or legally responsible - to fade away without even being an issue in the 1996 renomination and reelection of Bill Clinton.

That is not the behavior of an independent press, that is the behavior of a political party. "Objective Journalism" is an establishment which can get "Campaign Finance Reform" laws passed to eviscerate First Amendment freedom of the people for the enhancement of its own relative influence. The fact that it behaves as a coherent politically motivated entity is in plain sight. And anyone who is responsible for preserving, protecting, and defending the Constitution of the United States had, and has, an affirmative duty to remove from our laws and precedents any trace of favor to any member of the MSM.

That is the only challenge which really matters. And, be it remembered, it was Ronald Reagan who killed the Fairness Doctrine which was suppressing all serious examination of the MSM from the airwaves.

Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate