Oct 29 2007
Media bias in elections? No way!
A recent study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press shows a distinct media bias that effectively narrows the field of front-runners as a result, full article reported here on CBSnews.com. First off, “Project for Excellence in Journalism”, this is a tall order in our country (read horseshit), where if it ain’t sensational it ain’t news. But the results are expected, the strong media bias has narrowed the field to the top two Democrat front-runners (Clinton and Obama) and 3 Republicans (Giuliani, McCain, and Romney, all toolbags). The biggest take-aways from this report are these facts:
They argue that this election could represent a generational struggle in both parties, but that early media coverage failed to capture that fundamental tension.
“If American politics is changing,” the report concluded, “the style and approach of the American press does not appear to be changing with it.”
The internet communities have been harping about this for years, the main-stream media in this country is out of touch, and surprise surprise the main-stream media in this country are large corporations who don’t want a politics shift. I don’t see a solution except to start watching BBCnews, hell Americans might actually start to hear news from other places.
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No surprise. When the Iraq Invasion started in 2003, I was in Spain, staying with a local family. We got our news two ways:
1. Conversations with our host family in the little Spanish that I could muster. The older son in the family told me (in 2003, before the invasion), that there would be a lot of suicide bombings if America invaded.
2. CNN international and BBC in English on TVs in our hotel rooms when we traveled around Spain on weekends.
When we conversed with folks back home, we had to ask, “What the fuck is America doing?” According to the news sources that we had available, there was absolutely no justification for an invasion of Iraq.
So, yeah, if Americans can get another, external newsource, things will look very different. Maybe BBC even mentions Ron Paul.
Its been like this forever. News in the US is not news, its a commercial like anything else. They sell you juicy headlines to get viewers. CNN caters to liberals, telling you what you want to hear. fox news caters to conservatives, telling you what you want to hear. Neither tells the true and unbiased version. Kind of messed up.