Media Bias

Could there ever be a more blaring example of media bias then what we have witnessed recently. The media has gone out of their way to counter the lies and truth stretching against the Obama administration. Front page defenses in the national newspapers and headline news across the networks. Protect and spin the half baked truths and outright lies as they should. Yet these very same news outlets were silent when the same breed of whacko’s spread their lies about the Bush administration. Even the same topics are being treated differently. With Bush the education program No Child left behind was slaughtered in the press. Under Obama no bad word is spoken. Gitmo was hailed as one of the worlds worst offences under Bush. Under Obama The press spins it as the best of all the bad options available. Which it is and was when the Bush administration brought it online. It seemed even when Bush did something that was self evidently correct the press still spun it negatively. On the real whacked side some where near 30% of the public, around 9 million U.S. citizens believe the Twin towers were blown up by the CIA under Bush’s orders and the hijackers worked for Bush. Did you ever see a counter report on that? I sure hope that 100 years from now the folks writing the History books give credit where credit was do with the Bush administration. For no one living today was ever given un-spun news to develop a clear opinion on their own. Here in Portland (The Peoples Republic of Portland) Bush was blamed on the front page of our local newspaper if so much as one salmon died in a creek so remote the locals don‘t even know the location. In contrast our local paper drools over everything Obama does even the issues they criticized under Bush though no changes have been made.
The Obama campaign’s press strategy leading up to his election last November focused on “making” the media cover what the campaign wanted and on exercising absolute “control” over coverage, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn told an overseas crowd early this year.
“Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn’t absolutely control,” Dunn said, admitting that the strategy “did not always make us popular in the press.”