Wednesday, October 14, 2009
The Media - the Sacramento Bee
This is an interesting article to me.
It highlights several problems that I attribute to media bias and an anxiousness to report on things that further their agenda.
In the past, I would have labeled it sloppy journalism; however, these days, the sloppiness seems only to occur when it involves conservative personna...
It highlights several problems that I attribute to media bias and an anxiousness to report on things that further their agenda.
In the past, I would have labeled it sloppy journalism; however, these days, the sloppiness seems only to occur when it involves conservative personna...
Warner Todd Huston writes about it at PubliusForum.com:
"Much has been made about Meg Whitman’s spotty voting record by many, including me. When the Sacramento Bee’s Andrew McIntosh first reported that records for Whitman’s voter registration going back a decade or so were nearly non-existent it seemed that the anti-Whitman camp(s) out there had quite an issue to hang their hats upon. It sure made me wary of her campaign, to be sure.
After all, wouldn’t it say something interesting if this purportedly life-long Republican candidate had little history of even voting at all — much less for other Republicans — until recently? Whether its a fair question or not, it does make one wary of such a candidate. How could the voters be asked to vote for someone that herself hasn’t seemed too interested in voting?
Of course, this whole question is only legitimate if the newspaper that broke the story had all its facts straight. Now, it is starting to look like the Bee’s story is not as cut and dried as it was presented."
