Thursday, September 04, 2008
The Media - Bad, Bad, Very Bad
If you follow the recent media reporting, you KNOW this writer's criticism is right...
In the Boston Herald, Michael Graham makes some comparisons:
"When the story first broke that Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards had cheated on his cancer-stricken wife and sired a baby with a bimbo on his campaign payroll, The New York Times [NYT] refused to run it.
But when the news hit that not the president, not the vice president but the daughter of the vice-presidential nominee is pregnant, the Times ran five - count ’em, five - stories about it. In one day.
Edwards dragged his sick wife through the Iowa boonies and paid his girlfriend off in campaign dollars, and the Times decides it’s not worth writing about.
Meanwhile Bristol Palin is too young to even vote for Edwards, and she makes the front page of nearly every major daily that for weeks refused to report on the Edwards Love Child story.
But remember: There is no liberal media bias. Don’t believe me? Just ask Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews."
