I've been thinking about how biased the news has become towards any specific angle. It doesn't matter if you are pro-life, anti-abortion, for same sex marriage, against same sex marriage, democrat, republican, for war or against war.
When a person takes a job in a media position as a reporter, no matter what they believe they should cover the event fairly and unbiased.
I'm going to use yesterdays Tea Party demonstrations as an example, Many news outlets reported one way or the other for most there was no inbetween,
CNN called the events a mediocre story, and in 2 instances I saw their reporters and commentators making fun of the event, and the reporter that covered the Chicago event said that it was nothing more than a place for Obama Bashers to protest, and be heard.
Personally its more about politics than it is with Obama, look back to Bush's final months in office, spend spend spend spend, and maybe it was in preparation for what was to come, however its about what the government is doing, taxing, and spending.
Obama IS the president, and people are going to protest an idea and the protests will be directed towards a current sitting government. Right now that just happens to be a democrat controlled government.
Liberal media keeps saying Republicans and GOP are trying to find their voice.
I think many people no matter the political affiliation attended these, yes there were probably more republicans than democrats there, but it wasn't about Obama as a person, it was attacking Politics, it was attacking where this country is heading.
Obama may have an agenda to send this country to Socialism, however, that agenda has been in the works for more than just since Obama.
There has long been discussions with mexico and Canada to become a borderless continent, and having one currency, just like Europe has the Euro, there has been discussions to go to the Amero (or whatever name they end up giving it, if it comes to fruition.
Ok but that being said, long gone are the days that a station covers an event and says that the events do not represent how the news station or reporter feels.
Sorry but I remember many times when a movie or report was covered on by the media that they would at times put a disclaimer on the screen saying the views that they were reporting did not necessarily reflect the views of the station.
Maybe this needs to come back?
Or am i just showing my age here, and maybe being a bit to idealistic?
Mooch
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One of many reasons I haven't owned a TV for 25 years.
The media better get use to this because I do not think this was a one time event this is going to keep growing. No matter what the media tries to do to make it look silly.
I bet if there was reporters back during the Boston tea party they would have laughed and said it was silly.
Now this doesn’t mean I hate anything liberal; NPR is generally liberally biased but at least they do consider both sides and all things. In fact I give significantly to my local public radio station; yes I put my money where my mouth is and when I see true journalism I do support it. (If at this point you want me to argue how “car talk” is true journalism … well forget it … ever see Reuter’s “Oddly Enough” section? Not all journalism is serious.)
"not anti-Obama" -- Although you are factually correct, that many of the issues protested in these TEA parties extend back before the 44th administration, the point is that there were many signs being carried that named Obama; and I haven't seen a single one that pointed any fingers at 43 or anyone in the GOP. As a result, the TEA parties presented themselves as being more anti-Obama than anything else.
Third, these TEA parties did seem more like a GOP grandstanding event than any actual grassroots protest. The history of these TEA parties shows that it was the Libertarians who originally conceived the ideas; and it fully seems that the GOP jumped in and tried to steal their bandwagon.
Also, there are only "rumors" of creating a North American Union and one North American currency. Since there is no evidence of actual movement towards either of those goals, protesting toward government to avert these items seems far out in left (our right) field.
It is not bias to see these TEA parties as having been nothing but Obama Bashing, because that is mostly what went on at them.
It is only a very small amount of Americans that are afraid Obama is leading us towards Socialism. The vast majority are either supportively hopeful, or at least willing to wait until he's been in office a bit longer before deciding where his course is actually going to lead us and whether or not they should be afraid.
The TEA Parties WERE covered by the MSM, and they received as much coverage as their level of participation inspired. Had hundreds of thousand turned out at these over 800 events across the nation, then the MSM would have covered them more.
This is capitalism in motion. Cable and TV covers most what they think will garner the most views; and these TEA parties wern't it.
Mooch
I suspect the actual number was probably several hundred thousand.