The Rocky Mountain Collegian

February 20th, 2007

Media Bias: All in the name of the 1st Amendment?

There is a monster among us. It sucks you in with its appealing topics, and then when you aren’t even paying attention, it indoctrinates your mind with its agenda. It is the mainstream media, and it is the power tool of the Democrat Party.

MSNBC has them with Chris Matthews, who can’t go through a phone call without dropping an f-bomb about President Bush and calls Rudy Giuliani a fascist, and Keith Olbermann, who claims that there are 174 “bad conservatives” and only 23 “bad liberals” on his “Countdown.” ABC has Diane Sawyer, who interviews President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmahdinejad and claims he’s a good guy who’s just mistaken. The New York Times has its Maureen Dowds, and then hides behind the first amendment after it sabotages the United States‘ fight against terrorism.

And then there are the stories that the mainstream media misreports: Pure pessimism and debate over the war, where actual progress has been overlooked, or at best, reaches the scrolling bottom line. They’re always letting you know how many troops died in the war today, so they can depress you into thinking this particular war is different, because in this particular war, people die.

There’s also global warming, where the media praises Al Gore for being a daring and courageous leader in convincing the country and the world of the danger of global warming with his movie “An Inconvenient Truth.” But the skeptics, with facts on their sides, are shunned from the media and get little mention, get told that they should be stripped of their meteorologist credentials, or as Ellen Goodman so eloquently put it, “global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers”.

And when Barack Obama announced his candidacy for president, the media was practically throwing a party every single day, it seemed, with their nonstop praise of this young senator from Illinois. Chris Matthews went so far as to say that Obama’s candidacy “is one great day in American history” . But when Mitt Romney declared that he would be running for president, MSNBC’s Chip Reid simply called him “far right,” whereas Senator Obama, who is vehemently anti-war, was simply called a centrist who could unite the country. When Barack Obama announced his candidacy for presidency, he received over nine minutes worth of coverage during CBS’ “Saturday Early Show,” to Mitt Romney’s 10 seconds of coverage the day of his candidacy during “Early Show.”

Now what political party do you know of that seems to express these same opinions: praise for Democrats, frequent name calling and negativity when it comes to Republicans, extreme anti-war stances that can be seen as treason, hatred of the everything Bush, and touting man-made global warming as the single biggest problem America faces today? Coincidence? No sir.

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