Ever Present Media Bias

The Ever Present (Liberal) Media Bias
June 16, 3:22 PM Patrick McMahon
One of the most complex topics in American politics today is media bias. Yes it does exist on widespread level. Now being a political commentator or expressing your opinion, like I am doing right now, is not what I am referring to. I am talking about the “objective” news organizations that are supposed to report the news in an unbiased way, or just present the facts. The truth is that the vast majority of them do not do that anymore and that is resulting in a soaring number of people either being fed biased information or they are turning to more unconventional means of getting their news.

Most people know that the bias in news overwhelmingly is in favor of the Democratic Party, as it has been for many years now. That is not to say that there is not a Republican bias at all, but it is heavily outnumbered by the many liberal leaning news outlets. With the exception of Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, the Washington Times, and the political commentators in talk radio being sympathetic to the Republican Party; the rest appear to be favorable of the Democratic Party. The worst examples of this are the New York Times, the Washington Post, and MSNBC. They have been completely over the top in their support for President Obama and Democrats in Congress. CNN has a slight Democratic tilt, but no where near what it has been on MS-Obama…. I mean MSNBC. Liberal bias has not been working as was hoped, since the Democratic leaning news outlets are absolutely hemorrhaging viewers and readers. MSNBC is so far behind Fox News in the ratings it is pitiful. Not to mention the New York Times is facing a financial meltdown because their circulation has been steadily dropping. A horrible instance of media bias is just today ABC News announced that they were giving President Obama an entire evening of free programming to explain his healthcare plan and to make the case for it. There are two BIG problems with this. One, it is not being paid and two, Republicans and opponents of the plan are not being included. Does anyone actually think the media would have done the same for a Republican? I think not.

It is high time for media bias to go away. Both sides should have their points fairly heard by the audience, which are the voters. They should be allowed to make up their minds about what issues they agree with or disagree with. The press has often treated the public as sheep that need to be herded around and told what to think. Well, Americans are smarter than that and are able to form their own opinions without having a loud mouth television reporter tell a twisted lie in order for people to support a program. If this trend does not stop soon, people will keep turning to other methods of receiving objectionable news instead of being shoveled the same old thing.