If you have interest in issues such as media bias and media inadequacies in general, I recommend that you visit Glenn Greenwald’s blog over at salon.com. He REALLY lays the lumber to the so-called journalism to which we are subjected thanks to the corporate-controlled MSM and the lazy punditocracy that oozes out from the same sources. He also closely scrutinizes issues related to constitutional law and civil liberties. His blog posts are always thought provoking, and his commentators (themselves generally of a pretty high standard) add materially to the examination of the issues.

PS OT Did you the the “glass prints” of the second inauguration of President Lincoln?

His speech.

http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres32.html

“Can’t we just get some facts on the issues instead of everyone’s personal opinion of the candidates.”

I agree but first we have to decide what the issues are and then try to find the candidate who best addresses those issues.

Unfortunately politics doesn’t work this way. First you decide on which candidate you like and then you spend the rest of your time blindly defending him or her no matter what their record is on any issue and then trash the other candidates no matter what their record is on any issue. Of course I am talking about any election between a Democrat and a Republican. However the political process has stooped to a new low where is it now allowable for the same tactics to be used against candidates of your own party.

Also as I have tried to point out a zillion times is TV news is about ratings, money and more money. They have absolutely no desire for the truth why because as Col Jessop said in “A Few Good Men” “You can handle the Truth” or as I like to paraphrase it by saying “the dumb tv addicted American sheeple do not want to know the Truth.

In the tv news business there is an old expression that says..

“If it bleeds it leads”

“The Truth does not bleed so it does not lead”.

So what leads???

Race leads,

gender leads,

scandal leads,

murder leads,

molestation leads,

white women missing leads,

sports doping scandals lead,

police car chases lead,

Need I go on???

So why do you people get so upset about what TV news is doing or saying?

I used to read Huffpo a lot but now it too is reduced to some on the same things that tv news does however at least it is not pro Bush.

You and I may not think highly of David Brooks — and if you’ve never seen it, you MUST use our site search engine to find Larry’s send-ups of David Brooks, who lives near Larry — but at least his comments are not part of the actual news reports which have been, best I can tell, quite even and fair.

AND (!) I implore everyone who gets BBCAmerica on their cable or satellite system to try “BBC World News America,” which airs twice daily. Besides covering U.S. news, they offer their superlative world reporting.

To my great delight, on the evening of the New Hampshire primary, BBC World News America stayed “live,” covering the results as they came in … they were on live until 9pm PST.

Yes, BBCAmerica interrupted its regular programming to cover the primary!

There wasn’t one U.S. network that did that. I don’t even think they bothered with an update “crawl” during their regular programming.

(Now, when I was a child, ABC/CBS/NBC all covered such events live. And that was in the days — how I long for those days — when they also all covered the national conventions day and night, and there was suspense as the reporters on the convention floor hurried about interviewing state delegates and candidates. I’ve tried to describe to my daughter what it was like for me, as a teenage political junkie, to watch those conventions and listen to every report, intrigued by the deal-making, the speculations, and those exciting votes by each state’s delegation while the anchors like Walter Cronkite, Huntley & Brinkley, et al. kept tabs of the totals. Yes, I realize there were backroom and hotel room deals being made, but for viewers in their homes, it was so suspenseful!)

Edwards was then shown “playing the blame game” by calling for investigations into the big oil companies and what role they may have played in driving up the price of their products. I don’t recall hearing about Clinton or Obama’s positions, so I assume they are playing the blame game, or will raise our taxes, or are threatening our SUV way of life or something else dastardly.

Maybe the electorate would be better off if they simply did all Britney all the time. At least it would become clear that they are a lousy source for news and analysis.