One Guy's Opinion on the Political Scene By: Jim Herndon
Media Malfeasance
The media has been pushing John McCain very hard for the GOP Presidential nomination over all the other candidates because he is the least Conservative of the credible aspirants, but they will drop him like a bad habit once he wins the Republican race and starts running against their Democrat candidate, whether Obama or Clinton, in the general election.
This brings me to my central thought which is that we have a situation in America where the major media picks the candidates and decide the issues, not the public. The worrying part for me as a Neo-Conservative is that 90% of the media is Democrat/Liberal/Socialist in its makeup. The media is a bit torn in its preference this election season because, although they have always adored the Clintons, regardless of what the dirty duo has done, they are titillated by Obama, the first real Black man to vie for the top office not including the first ersatz Black man, Bill Clinton. Conservatives and Republicans must simply accept the fact that the media is predominately liberal, will always shade their coverage in favor of the other party, and quit agonizing about it. We know that several studies showed that the media presented favorable stories of Democrats to Republicans by a four to one ratio. Our principle news provider, the Associated Press, has admitted that they have senior news writers who are also liberal opinion writers, but that those writers never allow bias to enter their news reports. Of course not; whoever heard of a person’s opinions creeping into his writing?