Bias in the media

[August]

You've heard the accusations now hear the confession:

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Story?id=6099188&page=1

[baggygreen]

I'm impressed that this article even got published!

Of course, you'll get a lot of people complaining that he's a right-winger engaged in an attempt to attack the campaign of Obama, but what he says is truth, not just in the US but in the world.

Its kind of amusing that everything the West had is slowly disappearing and transforming into the things the west criticised 50 years ago..

[Tchocky]

It's a little much to blame the press for the coverage Joe the Plumber has gotten.

(contradiction noted)

Who started calling him Joe the Plumber in the first place?

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Tchocky

It's a little much to blame the press for the coverage Joe the Plumber has gotten.

(contradiction noted)

Who started calling him Joe the Plumber in the first place?

I'm not sure who called him Joe the plumber. Gosh, it only took 18 months for the media to realise the biased reporting. Unbelievable! Now, I guess they can not correct this in the next 8 days. :hmm: I'm betting not, ratings are good so why screw up a good thing!

I suspect this guy will be looking for a job in the morning?

[Tchocky]

It was John McCain who mentioned him first in the debate. Again and again.

It's not exactly fair to say that the media's inquisitiveness into this guy's personal affairs simply fell out of a clear blue sky.

[August]

I don't care so much about digging into Joe the Plumbers past as much as i worry about this:

Furthermore, I also happen to believe that most reporters, whatever their political bias, are human torpedoes … and, had they been unleashed, would have raced in and roughed up the Obama campaign as much as they did McCain's. That's what reporters do. I was proud to have been one, and I'm still drawn to a good story, any good story, like a shark to blood in the water. So why weren't those legions of hungry reporters set loose on the Obama campaign? Who are the real villains in this story of mainstream media betrayal?

The dogs will be unleashed eventually and Obama is going to have to face some really uncomfortable questioning. I just rather they did it before we elect a man who we have to impeach later.

[August]

I recall people complaining about this at the time:

But what really shattered my faith -- and I know the day and place where it happened -- was the war in Lebanon three summers ago. The hotel I was staying at in Windhoek, Namibia, only carried CNN, a network I'd already learned to approach with skepticism. But this was CNN International, which is even worse. I sat there, first with my jaw hanging down, then actually shouting at the TV, as one field reporter after another reported the carnage of the Israeli attacks on Beirut, with almost no corresponding coverage of the Hezbollah missiles raining down on northern Israel. The reporting was so utterly and shamelessly biased that I sat there for hours watching, assuming that eventually CNNi would get around to telling the rest of the story … but it never happened.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Mikhayl

Obviously the bias in the media is relative to our own.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Tchocky

It was John McCain who mentioned him first in the debate. Again and again.

It's not exactly fair to say that the media's inquisitiveness into this guy's personal affairs simply fell out of a clear blue sky.

No, but we know more about Joe the plumber in under two weeks and we are still attempting to get the entire picture of Obama and it has been 18 months. What is wrong with this picture?

[August]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

No, but we know more about Joe the plumber in under two weeks and we are still attempting to get the entire picture of Obama and it has been 18 months. What is wrong with this picture?

Exactly AVG.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by August

Exactly AVG.

Everyday, as of late, there is something new about Obama and his past associations and or something he said years ago that need to be examined. I now understand there is some tapes held by the LA Times that they do not want to disclose to the media because of more of the same is spoken by Obama.