Comments on: What Media Bias? Part V http://urbangrounds.com/2006/10/what-media-bias/ Off-the-cuff commentary on the day's events Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:15:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Preston http://urbangrounds.com/2006/10/what-media-bias/#comment-26706 Preston Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:55:46 +0000 http://urbangrounds.com/2006/10/25/what-media-bias/#comment-26706 Have you ever read the Note? To call Mark Halprin left-wing is laughable. He is a tool- usually for Republicans but almost always for entrenched power. In any case you don't often hear liberals writing lines like: <em>How the (liberal) Old Media plans to cover the last two weeks of the election: </em> On <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/25/0748/6332" rel="nofollow">O'reilly</a>, Halprin gave this weird suggestion that the media was going to behave exactly the opposite of the satire that he wrote in the Note: to balance the bad news for the Republicans- Iraq, Katrina, North Korea, Foley (basically their entire agenda)- that the media needed to bend over backwards in the last two weeks. I don't know if he was just kissing O'reilly's right wing ass but it is a grossly inappropriate statement for a 'journalist' to make. Have you ever read the Note? To call Mark Halprin left-wing is laughable. He is a tool- usually for Republicans but almost always for entrenched power. In any case you don’t often hear liberals writing lines like: How the (liberal) Old Media plans to cover the last two weeks of the election:

On O’reilly, Halprin gave this weird suggestion that the media was going to behave exactly the opposite of the satire that he wrote in the Note: to balance the bad news for the Republicans- Iraq, Katrina, North Korea, Foley (basically their entire agenda)- that the media needed to bend over backwards in the last two weeks.

I don’t know if he was just kissing O’reilly’s right wing ass but it is a grossly inappropriate statement for a ‘journalist’ to make.

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