Media Bias: The Fix Is In
By NancyA on October 1, 2008 at 12:50 PM in Current Affairs, Media Bias, Obamedia
I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read an article by Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds about an e-mail he received from a reader who works in a “major newsroom.”
“Off the record,” that reader told Reynolds, “every suspicion you have about MSM being in the tank for O is true.” The reader described the situation in his newsroom in stark detail:
We have a team of 4 people going thru dumpsters in Alaska and 4 in arizona. Not a single one looking into Acorn, Ayers or Freddiemae. Editor refuses to publish anything that would jeopardize election for O, and betting you dollars to donuts same is true at NYT, others. People cheer when CNN or NBC run another Palin-mocking but raising any reasonable inquiry into obama is derided or flat out ignored. The fix is in, and it’s working.
Reynolds reports that he asked for permission to reprint the e-mail “without attribution,” which “was granted.”
Since Reynolds’ initial story, the account has been verified by other sources. Reynolds notes that “the Anchoress hears similar things.” Adds Reynolds reader Eric Schubert:
The Edwards debacle was proof enough of where the heart of the MSM lies, and lack of curiousity of the press about Edwards probably cost Hillary the nomination. And that shameful episode offers a warning to the MSM. What if Obama does have a skeleton in his closet (such as a shady deal or outright bribe) that is revealed after he wins the election? While the chance of this scenario is remote, imagine the backlash against the MSM if it could be shown that a reasonable investigation by the MSM would have easily revealed this secret to the public prior to the election?
The Anchoress had this to say about the MSM:
I have a couple friends who work in the MSM, too, and one of them tells me the newsroom is (exact words) “unbelievably cavalier” about any complaints viewers register about their reports, what they ignore, their bias or the way they edit Republicans vs. the way the treat Dems. “Cavalier” as in the fix is in and they don’t even have to pretend to care what half the country thinks or wants.
The Anchoress has more to say. She opens our eyes to things that certain legislators want. She suggests Pelosi is getting what she wants:
I suppose this is why print media and the press in general don’t care about their tumbling revenues; when The Pelosi gets the regulated internet and restricted Congress that she wants, and Obama gets his thugs and his Justice Department monitoring, intimidating and shutting down alternative media (and the dissenting voices we’ve been told are “patriotic” when a Republican is in the White House) the incestuous mainstream press will go back to being the only game in town. Pravda West.
(Shrug) everyone sees it coming; the voters don’t seem to want to stop it.
And we knew it all along!
by Ronald Scott
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