Tuesday, January 26, 2010
The Media - and Bush Bashing
Clearly, President Bush was not perfect.; however, some part of our perception has been "created" by a biased media through unprecedented and relentless bashing and blaming...
Candace de Russy writes about it at BigJournalism.com. She starts with:
"The mainstream media’s headlong and heady descent into denigrating George W. Bush over the last decade signaled a dark moment in media history that has surely damaged American consciousness. Caught up in 'Bush-bashing,' the MSM reached a critical turning point, and likely one of no return.
At times consciously and even triumphally, the media increasingly abused the traditional journalistic standards of independence and neutrality in favor of functioning as a virtual arm of the liberal Democratic Party. They took on, in effect, a new and disturbing identity.
So consumed by politics, power and status did the MSM become during this period that bashing the former president became standard media fare. This death by a thousand cuts proceeded unabashedly, unabatedly, and largely without challenge by Bush and his staff during his presidencies.
Jim A. Kuypers concluded as much in his study, Bush’s War: Media Bias and Justifications for War in a Terrorist Age, in which he meticulously documents how the agenda-driven and 'anti-democratic' media not long after the 9/11 terror attacks began pervasively distorting the former president’s statements, failing to report critical parts of his speeches, and even 'framing' (manipulating stories) to portray the president as an enemy.
Among countless examples:"
