The liberal media is biased

One of the most cherished freedoms enumerated in the First Amendment is the freedom of the press. Beholden to no one, American journalists, reporters, news anchors and editors are free to investigate controversies and “speak truth to power.” Individual citizens do not have resources to ask prominent officials questions, verify claims or research important issues – but the media do. We rely on the press to deliver news and often assume the reporting is objective.

The mainstream media have failed us. In the past, the press had the courage to report the facts no matter whose reputation was at stake. Once respectable institutions such as The Associated Press, The Washington Post and The New York Times are now masquerading biased opinions as nonpartisan news.

Liberal media bias is often dismissed as a paranoid right-wing myth, despite it being obvious to the general public and journalists. Last week, The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press released the News Interest Index, a survey of 900 registered voters, regarding news coverage and media bias. About 70 percent of voters believed most reporters and journalists want to see Barack Obama win the presidential election, compared to the nine percent who believe they favor John McCain. Pew also found that, “Five times more national journalists identify themselves as liberal than conservative.” Journalists’ personal views shape how news is reported to the public, subtly injecting bias into supposedly objective accounts.

While the cover of Rolling Stone gives Obama a halo, Palin’s picture accompanies the words, “Babies, Lies and Scandal” on the cover of US Weekly. Obama may ride into the White House on the backs of an adoring press, but they will not share his victory.

“Biased” is not adequate.

Better: “utterly deceitful, fraudulant, malicious, anti-American, prostituting, hateful, narcissistic, socialist, deceiving, non-credible, agenda-driven, etc”

As Rush says: “Giving literary Lewinskys.”

Best part of the article:

“As voters, we should have full access to information about all candidates and ballot measures. As media consumers, we should not pay for a flawed product we cannot trust. By staying informed through alternative media, writing letters to the editor dissenting the mainstream narrative and refusing to support biased news organizations, we can fully realize what the First Amendment was designed for – a free, truthful and honorable press.”

Good article. In my lifetime, the MSM has never been more blatantly obvious, and in the tank for a politician. And what is with these newspapers (Anchorage Daily News...AK newspaper..for example) coming out and saying that they, the Anchorage Daily News is supporting Obama? They did that just a couple of days ago. As if all of us Alaskans didn’t already know that ADN and the AK t.v. news outlets were shoving him down our throats.

Since when did a “newspaper” walk into a voting booth and vote? Workers at these newspapers, media, etc., are made up of Americans...and not all of them agree with the bias of their news organizations.

I would encourage everyone to stop giving these MSM papers and media outlets their time and money!! Hit ‘em where it hurts....their $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Pew also found that, “Five times more national journalists identify themselves as liberal than conservative.”

And 25 times more actually are liberal as opposed to conservative.

My dream is that someday the idea of "the press" will be part of the ash heap of history and that every citizen will be "the press." The Internet is making it happen, but if Obama gets his fascist talons into the net, that'll be it for our last chances of freedom.

CNS NEWS.com: "OBAMA SEES SUPREME COURT JUSTICES AS CHAMPIONS OF THE WEAK OVER THE STRONG" by Matthew Cover (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "In both speeches, the Illinois Democrat chastised the nominees not for their positions on specific constitutional issues or matters of law but for what he perceived as too often siding with the strong instead of the weak. He charged Roberts, for example, with being dismissive of claims of racial and gender discrimination and criticized Alito for making a habit out of siding with government and corporations against plaintiffs and workers.") (October 29, 2008)

THREATSWATCH.org - blog: "ENTERING A NEW ERA" by Jay Fraser (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "However, to consider that the War on Terrorism and its battles are over simply because the United States has not had to withstand another direct attack on our soil would be naive.") (October 28, 2008, 6:19 pm)

NEWSMAX.com: "EXPECT FEWER LIBERTIES IF OBAMA WINS" by David Limbaugh (COMMENTARY SNIPPET: "I am sincerely worried that if Obama wins, the checks and balances incorporated into our Constitution may not be enough to prevent a radical and irreversible diminution of our individual liberties because a confluence of factors has emerged to create a climate conducive to fundamental change. These are the factors:") (October 28, 2008, 8:40 am)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com (FOX NEWS): "THOSE MARXIST COLLEGE YEARS" by Bill Sammon (October 29, 2008)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "PALESTINIANS CAMPAIGNING FOR OBAMA" by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook (October 29, 2008)

JIHAD WATCH.org (GLOBE AND MAIL.co.uk): "GAZA STUDENTS CALL U.S. VOTERS, ASKING THEM TO SUPPORT OBAMA" (October 27, 2008)

DANIEL PIPES.org (HUDSON INSTITUTE): "PLO ACKNOWLEDGES: STILL AT WAR WITH ISRAEL" by Daniel Pipes (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Yasir Arafat may have shaken Yitzhak Rabin's hand in 1993 and signed solemn declarations about ending the war to eliminate Israel, but late last month, in a New York City courtroom, the Palestine Liberation Organization formally confirmed that it still sees terrorism against Israelis as legitimate acts of war.") (October 28, 2008)

FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS.org: "BARACK OBAMA'S ANTI-ISRAEL ALLIANCES" by Rachel Neuwirth (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Rashid Khalidi was the director of the PLO's press agency WAFA from 1976 to 1982, at a time when the PLO was conducting a massacre of 37 Israeli civilians in a bus on Israel's coastal road, the brutal murder of a four-year-old Israeli girl in Nahariya, and numerous other terrorist killings of Israeli civilians. The PLO was also waging a brutal war against the Lebanese Christian community during this period, and carried out numerous massacres of Lebanese Christians; the worst of these was the killing of about 500 people in the village of Damour.") (October 24, 2008)

Elections.FOX NEWS.com: "LA TIMES REFUSES TO RELEASE TAPE OF OBAMA PRAISING CONTROVERSIAL ACTIVIST Video of farewell party for alleged PLO worker shows Obama toasting 'friend and dinner companion' with questionable past." (October 28, 2008)

AMERICAN THINKER.com - blog: "THE SAID-KHALIDI-OBAMA CONNECTION" by Ed Lasky (October 22, 2008)

stepping back in time...CAMPUS-WATCH.org - Campus Watch Research: "COLUMBIA U. RELEASE EDWARD SAID CHAIR DONORS: NAMES ARAB GOVERNMENT" (March 19, 2004)

stepping back in time...CAMPUS-WATCH.org (FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com): "SECRETS, DONORS AND THE EDWARD SAID CHAIR" by Jonathan Calt Harris (November 19, 2003)

stepping back in time...MARTIN KRAMER'S SANDBOX - blog: "RASHID REDUX" (Posted Janurary 29, 2003)

[Post no. 2] - ARCHIVES - Topic: BIDEN & OBAMA (aka B & O) (October 28, 2008 -- Click Here TO VIEW MY ARCHIVED LINKS.)

JEFF HEAD.com - Videos: "THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - Obama In His & His Supporters Own Words"

We’ve done a lot of harping about FNC lately. Last night Brit and his panel spent a segment on this issue and covered it well. Brit ackbowledged they had been especially hard on the McCain campaign the previous night. Fred Barnes delivered a major mea culpa and actually apologized for some serious accusation which proved to be false. They were in CYA mode but I appreciated it.

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