Posted on 10/26/2004 5:50:31 PM PDT by SeaBiscuit
Every time people tell me there's no media bias, I use stories such as mine on Jimmy Carter to illustrate just the opposite. The official media loves Carter and some have dumped on me for not sharing that love. That's fine. But here's what isn't: Pretending you're serving your readers or viewers by saying you're giving both sides.
Take this issue of tons of explosives now missing in Iraq.
Why no reporting on this NBC News item these weapons might have disappeared "before" American troops even arrived on the scene? And why suddenly this new-found concern for explosives at all — one of our primary reasons for going into Iraq — when all the established media argued there were no such explosives "in" Iraq?
Let me ask you something: Is it remotely possible, just a teeny-tiny bit possible, that some of the "350 tons" of these high explosives were even higher than that? I don't know, maybe the mass destruction kind? Who knows? But this much I do know: Even if we were to find scores of weapons of mass destruction at this point, I doubt it'd make so much as a point of mention in newspapers or newscasts.
Bias is alive and well.
It's amazing. FOX News gets routinely dumped on for covering news one way. Yet there's not a word about others who continue to lock lemming-step to "their" way.
They insist Carter's a saint, or weapons aren't there. Never mind that Carter isn't a saint and now talk that at least at one time there were plenty of weapons there.
If it doesn't fit "their" picture, we don't get the picture. But I do get the picture and let me tell you something: It ain't pretty.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Note: that's the whole story and not excerpt, ticked the excerpt by mistake. sorry.
Awesome, I love when people post Neil's Common Sense. I wrote him a response that I was hoping to be aired, but I'm not sure if it was. Here it is:
I'm sure the Left-Wing panzees will protest about your commentary on President Carter. They will say, "He's such a sweet man, and he means well...etc." and all that other apologist nonsense. Carter was one of the worste Presidents in American history. The current situation with Iran is a testament to his failure, being that they were an ally before his folly. Since he left office, he has stuck his beak into almost every foreign affair and helped the anti-American interests in each. When he was a farmer, he was full of peanuts, since then, he's full of something else... and Neil, your head is huge.
btt
When explosives are missing, Bush screwed up about guarding them.
When WMDs are missing, they never existed.
Loony Lib Logic 101 strikes again.
When explosives are missing, Bush screwed up about guarding them.
When WMDs are missing, they never existed.
Loony Lib Logic 101 strikes again.
Yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Always have, always will.
The web gives the common person a link to other common people without it being 'presented' by someone with an agenda.
The media's agenda is selling their influence to advertisers who have their own agenda.
It has never been different.
We can use the web to counter this bias. And we are.
Getting rid of a bias in any mass communication medium is like the idea you will destroy and end terrorism.
It , like disease, can be held at bay, kept in control, but never destroyed.
Vigilance is key. President Bush has inherited a nation kept blind to the real status of the world, and the real reasons for the catastrophes that occurred in the US. They were terrorist attacks hidden by a President that was more concerned that he "STAY POPULAR" with the public, than for the life of the individuals of that public who died in OKC, in TWA800, On the COLE.
Terrorism covered most of the world, and much of the United States. Destroying it's will is what must be done.
As another freeper said, "it's for all the marbles."
YES, it is.
John Kerry is another wannabe who would "DO ANYTHING" to "STAY POPULAR" with the public.
Know what I mean?
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