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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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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