Sunday, February 07, 2010
The Media - and their "selective" reporting
I guess it's clear by now that if you depend on the media to get the full story about political candidates, you are NOT going to get it.
For whatever reason; bias, pressure, or incompetence; they are NOT delivering for Americans...
For whatever reason; bias, pressure, or incompetence; they are NOT delivering for Americans...
At WashingtonExaminer.com, Byron York writes about this outrageous example:
"Two weeks before the 2008 Iowa caucuses, the National Enquirer published a detailed story reporting that Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards had had an affair, and that the woman involved, campaign videographer Rielle Hunter, was pregnant, and that Edwards had arranged for an aide to falsely claim to be the father, and that Hunter and the aide and the aide's family were being taken care of financially by a wealthy Edwards backer. At the time, Edwards was a real contender in the Democratic presidential race, so when the Enquirer story was published, the Edwards camp prepared for what some believed would be an onslaught of media scrutiny. But it didn't come. At the time, Edwards thought he had outsmarted the watchdogs of the press, frustrating their best attempts to uncover the story. But it later turned out that many journalists just didn't want to report the news and hadn't tried very hard to uncover the facts."
