Bush supporters renew vigor in lambasting media

San Jose Mercury News ^ | 7/4/04 | By James Kuhnhenn

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WASHINGTON - With the presidential election likely to turn on developments in Iraq and the U.S. economy, one of the summer's hottest political issues is whether news-media coverage of those topics is fair or biased.

That's nothing new, but what's different is the renewed vigor of conservatives angry at the media and saying so, in e-mails to journalists, letters to the editor and even in social settings with news executives. Last month Brent Bozell, a conservative activist, launched a $2.8 million advertising and talk-radio campaign to discredit what he says is an anti-Bush bias in newspapers and television news. His conservative Media Research Center is running newspaper and billboard ads depicting a stern-faced Uncle Sam warning: ``Don't believe the liberal media!''

[Luke21]

This Knight Ridder Bolshevik has written a whole pile of manure here.

[Starboard]

It's election season, so sure enough, Saturday, on NBC the homeless story surfaced with "and the numbers are growing."

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Homelessness is only reported as a problem during Republican administrations. If you'll recall, just as Clinton took office, the whole issue suddenly disappeared and the liberal media ceased its crusade.