Editing Their Way to Oblivion: Journalism Sacrificed For Power and Pensions

The traditional media is playing a very, very dangerous game. With its readers, with the Constitution, and with its own fate.

The sheer bias in the print and television coverage of this election campaign is not just bewildering, but appalling. And over the last few months I’ve found myself slowly moving from shaking my head at the obvious one-sided reporting, to actually shouting at the screen of my television and my laptop ... Full Story »

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Ann Wilmer
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by Ann Wilmer - Oct. 25, 2008

Not at all. It is subjective and selective. Certainly the media fails to do its job at times but if this writer read more widely then he would see that for every story with a liberal bias, there is another with a conservative bias.

I had to force myself to read through to the end of this long, whining rant. The only thing worse was a few of the asinine comments that followed.

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Chris Finnie
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by Chris Finnie - Oct. 25, 2008

He should be embarrassed not to know that, in American English, commas always fall inside quotation marks. And, while I can't disagree with him about one-sided coverage in some outlets, I do disagree that it's all on one side in this election. As another reviewer pointed out, that all depends on what you watch and read. I've seen coverage on all the "neglected" stories he cites--and I don't watch Faux Noise. I'm sure they got plenty of coverage there. Still, I could wish each outlet was more balanced. Let's start with the Murdoch media empire!

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Gregory Kruse
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by Gregory Kruse - Oct. 25, 2008

It isn't journalism so much a whiny diary entry. "Poor me, I have to pound my fingers to the bone while those liberal fat cats make all the money. Nobody listens to me.' Mr. Malone apparently doesn't acknowedge the existence of the Wall Street Journal and the Chicago Tribune or Fox News. He doesn't see the countless times in interviews where journalists shy away from following up on an absurd statement, as if everyone is sure to get the jist of it on their own. He doesn't mention the obfuscation of Republican candidates, lobbyists, and analysts, not to mention outright lies and innuendo. In fact he does his own. Why doesn't he interview Ayers for us, or fill in the missing years of Obama's life? Why doesn't he and the ... More »

I started reading this with an open mind, but by the end I was way turned off.

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