It's no big secret that I'm a Republican. My entire family is Republican. This does not mean that I have to belong to the same political party as the rest of my family. I simply choose to be.
I consider myself to be well informed with both sides, therefore I simply choose which side I belong to.
While I may in fact be a little bias, that is not to say that if I was wrong about something politcally, I would deny it.
That's not my point though.
My point is that I find it funny when people say there is "no such thing as the liberal media". Really? Really? There isn't a chance in hell that you could ever get me to believe that.
Case in point, and my only point for this argument (if you find this to be insubstantial in any way, go ahead try to sway me, but first let's check this out):
Sarah Palin was just bashed by the media for having writing on her hand. So what?
Every politician uses a teleprompter, so if she wasn't able to have one, that makes her a cheater in some way?
Don't tell me for a minute that you wouldn't get nervous sitting in front of thousands of people trying to make some kind of point.
Would you honestly remember everything? You wouldn't forget a single point that you had to say?
I didn't think so.
At least she has the decency to write what she wants to talk about on her hand so she doesn't forget, stumble around, or make up her own words (cough, cough G. Dubya). Have you seen Obama without a teleprompter?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxxxGUeZtno
Granted, he corrected himself. I understand that. But seriously? "Breathalyzer?" I wouldn't doubt for a second if that was someone like McCain or Palin the media would've been like hawks on them saying how they misused that word, even if they would've corrected it.
I can see it now. "Palin flubs word, Has Poor Recovery".
I don't want to drag this whole subject on. But I do want to end with one thing.
Obama also made this comment about a corpsman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNXMAFGXOUA&feature=player_embedded
He pronounced corpsman as corpse-man. Where was the media coverage on this saying that Obama messed up?
And that came from reading a teleprompter. I wish he would've just made a word because that, in my opinion, is a great insult to the military.
All I'm trying to say is that if you're going to bash one side for reading things or misprouncing things, bash both sides, because both sides did it. I'm not saying that what Obama did was worse that was Palin did or vice-versa.
I think we all forget that politicians and our country's leaders, regardless of the power they hold, are human.
And humans make mistake.
Either come down hard on both sides, or just leave it alone.
Get it together media.
Jenni.
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We need to get away from the "liberal" and "conservative" media bias discussion, because there isn't one.
What there IS, is an elitist bias. There is a small class of elites in this country (well, technically THAT country, since I'm not in the US right now) that include politicians, corporate leaders, lobbyists, and national-level corporate media, who only communicate amongst themselves creating an echo-chamber effect. Since most of us get our news from the media wing of this elite class, this dictates the "national conversation" (AKA what passes for "news").
It's not liberal because it doesn't include the voice of the numbers of desperate poor minorities and otherwise marginalized members of society. And it's not conservative because it doesn't include the voice of the masses of concerned and frightened citizens who hold religious values and national tradition above else. Yet each group, because their voice is absent, claims the media is biased. Well, they're right. It's biased against the people.
I strongly recommend reading Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent or watching the documentary by the same name, available here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5631882395226827730#
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