Monday, October 27, 2008

Media bias? Ask a journalist

Tonight, in a freezing-cold, rain-soaked game five of the World Series, Joe Buck and Tim McCarver detoured most about the "questionable" job of the home plate umpire. Folks, the last thing you want in what could be a deciding game is to have lame officiating.

The election version of the umpire is the media. Television news, print news, e-news. America has counted on its journalists to keep the playing field level.

In this years election, the umpire's bias has even become a joke on Saturday Night Live. Sending love letters and candy to one team does not give the other team the warmest of fuzzies.

Linked here is a lengthy article by an ABC News Journalist wherein he grieves over what has become of his profession. Please hang with it in its entirety. It gets really sobering on pages 3-5 (none of the pages is very long).

We have many unanswered questions about what side of this election primarily because the questions have been unasked. In eight days, the questions will be moot.

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