Didn’t the National Equirer or some other tabloid break the Bill Clinton/Gennifer Flowers story? There too, the MSM was not interested in what a good Democrat such as Bill Clinton was doing.
Media bias exists when the stories are slanted or reported in certain ways. And media bias exists WHEN THEY DECIDE WHICH STORIES TO COVER, AND WHICH ONES TO IGNORE.
Was the Mark Foley story really worth two weeks of saturation coverage in the fall of ‘06 during the mid-term election campaign?
Was the Larry Craig story really worth the coverage it got?
We’ll see if this story peters out over the weekend, or if it has “legs”. I think they just wanted to get it out of the way. Then if anybody says anything next week, the Dems. will take a page from Bill Clinton’s playbook and say this story is old news and already dealt with. And their allies in the newsrooms may decide to move on from it.
Would a prominent Republican get the same treatment in a case like this?
Didn’t the National Enquirer also break the Jesse Jackson love child Scandal too?
Oh, yes, and in the 1992 campaign it was CBS and “60 Minutes” that allowed Bill & Hillary to do a puffball ‘interview’ staged PR event with no real investigation or serious reporting. CBS made itself the vehicle of the Clintons to save their campaign. The Clintons were in serious danger of being derailed by the Gennifer Flowers story, and CBS rode to the rescue.
CBS did not merely stay neutral or ignore the story, it turned its vaunted “investigative” TV magazine, 60 Minutes, into a propaganda forum for the Clintons. That was the last time I ever watched 60 Minutes or anything on CBS News, because I could see that they were so completely corrupt and in the tank for the Demagogues.
I would not have respected them if they had simply ignored the story at that point, but to actively connive with the Clintons in propagating obvious falsehoods, well that proved CBS News and 60 Minutes to be beneath contempt.