Saturday, May 16, 2009

The unbiased media

Where do I begin?

On Friday on CBS' The Early Show the former Miss California co-executive director stated that the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is a hate group. This was in response to her quitting her position because Carrie Prejean was not forced to give back her Miss California title. There was no rebuttal or follow up question about the NOM hate group comment from commentator Julie Chen.

Leon Panetta, current CIA director, came out swinging at Pelosi and her comments that the CIA lied to her about waterboarding. On Friday CBS and NBC made no mention of his comments. Only ABC found it newsworthy enough to report on. That being said it took all three networks 3 weeks to finally report on the Pelosi shifting stories on her briefing. ABC spent a whole 28 seconds on Good Morning America reporting on it showing the importance of the story. Interestingly that was the same amount of time they spent on a report about a the rescue of a kangaroo caught in deep water off an Australian beach.

On Friday's inside Washington Evan Thomas, talking about the Pelosi controversy insisted “it doesn't” matter, maintaining “this is all noise, this is all noise.” NPR's Nina Totenberg declared “I don't think it matters, except that it is a diversion that is encouraged by former Bush people who don't want to have this conversation.”

Watch and see how the speech at Notre Dame by Obama is presented by the media. How much coverage have you seen about the latest Gallup Poll showing more Americans are Pro Life than Pro Abortion. News is not what it use to be.

2 comments:

  1. I’m a big Fox News fan. I’m not a Geraldo fan. On his Saturday show, Geraldo at Large, he interviewed three Pro-Life activists. One was a student, one was an activist and the other was a protester know for using confrontations to get his message across.

    Geraldo was very polite to the student. Her protests were held in the church and had received very little media coverage. The second activist had given a speech against Obama receiving an honoree degree. He said that it hurt him deeply. The pro-life activist that used confrontation was treated like scum. You could almost see Geraldo drip venom whenever he spoke to him.

    I’m not sure if it was Geraldo’s love of President Obama or of Abortion that set him off. His stupidest remark was that he was half-Catholic as if Catholicism is a race or nationality. DUH!!

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  2. Not surprising at all. If you can't see the bias, you are blind!

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