[ladyinred]

You'd think they would get a clue.

You would, wouldn't you? That is what leads me to believe that they don't care. Their political agenda is more important than ratings, something most will not believe, so that is the beauty of it.
I always hear that the reason they run with certain stories is all about ratings, but I no longer believe that. It is all about the agenda, and the end justifies the means. They make up for the low ratings with nonsense shows like Survivor and such to numb the brains of the "unwashed."

[Bryan]

When the subject of liberal bias in the media is brought up, particularly during an election campaign, journalists tend to roll their eyes and groan "there you go again" at this recrudescence of an old right-wing shibboleth. This pose, while convenient, was shaken by a famous Roper poll of 139 Washington bureau chiefs and correspondents.

It found that in 1992 they had voted 89 percent for Clinton, 7 percent for Bush. Regular Americans had voted Clinton over Bush, 43 percent to 38 percent. The country went marginally for Clinton; the journalists went for him 13 to 1.

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/opinion/columns/krauthammercharles/A40894-2000Sep28.html

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Compare the media's coverage of the killing of Kevin Shifflet to their coverage of the killing of Robert Byrd. Byrd, of course, was dragged on a chain behind a pickup truck by three white racists until he was dismembered. There's no way you missed that story unless you were raised in a barrel and just let out.

Kevin Shifflet? Who's Kevin Shifflet? You never heard of him. That's because he was white, and a black man killed him simply because he was white. Here is a more comprenhesive listing of hate crimes that you never heard about, because the killers were black and their victims were white:

http://www.loompanics.com/Articles/hatecrimes.html

There is no better example of left-wing media bias than a comparison between the stories of Matthew Shepard and Jesse Dirkhising.

http://www.covenantnews.com/dirkhising.htm

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Wrapping up the Dirkhising story

By Brent Bozell
April 2, 2001

You could call it a forgotten ending to a forgotten story. On March 22, a jury in Bentonville, Ark., convicted 23-year-old Joshua Brown of first-degree murder in the death of 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising. On Sept. 26, 1999, Brown and his lover, Davis Don Carpenter, 39, bound, gagged and drugged the skinny, long-haired boy and raped him with objects until he died of "positional asphyxiation."

Let the record show this is a story the national press has deliberately chosen to spike. The national media's ongoing, see-no-evil campaign of calculated ignorance on the Dirkhising story stands in stark contrast to both its perpetual exploitation of crimes against children and its campaign to smear the religious right as the killers of Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard.

Iconoclastic gay journalist Andrew Sullivan recently arrived at the scene of the discrepancy in the New Republic: "In the month after Shepard's murder, Nexis recorded 3,007 stories about his death. In the month after Dirkhising's murder, Nexis recorded 46 stories about his.

"In all of last year, only one article about Dirkhising appeared in a major mainstream newspaper, the Boston Globe. The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times ignored the incident completely. In the same period, the New York Times published 45 stories about Shepard and the Washington Post published 28. This discrepancy isn't just real. It's staggering."

It's beyond staggering. It is nauseating.

For the rest of the story, click on the link:

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/brentbozell/printbb20010402.shtml

Copyright © 2001 Creators Syndicate, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Here's an article by David Horowitz, touching on both the Shifflet/Byrd disparity in media coverage and the Shepard/Dirkhising disparity:

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/horowitz012301.asp