The media is a wonderful tool keeps our freedoms. There is no better way to keep the government in line then the media. Whenever a offense or mistake is made, the incident is discovered quickly and reported. It is because of such a strong and free media that our country enjoys its freedom; however, what happens if the media is not so… honest.
It is true that journalist do put a slant on the stories they report. That is only human, but when entire networks are slanted and biased. Then there is a problem. It isn’t hard too see that this is true. Look at MSNBC, CNN, or Fox. Each one is slanted in one way or another. MSNBC and CNN are cesspools of liberal hype, but Fox News is a drone for the conservatives.
Don’t believe me? We all know who the stars of each news network are. Of course CNN does have Glenn Beck and Fox has Alan Colmes, but the other news casters tend to be the same ideology. Some people believe that having one or two opposing view points are enough diversity, but I don’t think so. Networks should be honest and show both sides of an issue. I hate when I watch CNN and all they have is shows or documentaries about Iraq war, and you can clearly see that it was created to slam Bush and the Right. I never heard anything positive about the Iraq war coming from CNN or MSNBC. All I hear is more and more troops are killed, and how everything is falling to pieces. Luckily, that is all changing.
With the surge working and Iraq stabilizing, it seems that there aren’t a whole lot of terrible things happening for CNN and MSNBC to criticize, so what do they do? They don’t report anything. They just find something else to cry and moan about. I just don’t understand why. Why doesn’t any one see this? I actually had one person say that the Far Right controls the media. I couldn’t stop laughing. Sometimes I can’t believe how blind people can be.
Oh, lets not forget about my favorite news paper. The New York Times:
This is something they would write.
