Saturday, October 02, 2004

Yes, Virginia, there is a media bias

For years, right leaning pundits have been complaining about the liberal bias of the media. The left has always said that any such bias is a myth, and we need to do something about Fox News because it is definitely biased.


Last month, Dan Rather proved that the liberal, or at the very least Democratic, bias does, in fact, exist. Rather aired a story about Bush's guard service during Vietnam, using documents his own research department thought to be fake. After being called on the report, Rather said he stood by his story. Shortly before the documents were debunked, he said that if the report turns out to be false he would take complete responsibility. After they proved to be false, Rather said he was sorry that the documents fooled "us."


I heard a commentator say that this whole fiasco took the C for "conscientious" and left BS to stand for the network. He also said that CBS and Dan Rather have had interviews or reports on almost every anti-Bush book that has been published since the beginning of the campaign, but not one pro-Bush book.


I still don't know who I'm going to vote for, but I know what network I won't be watching.

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