The way the Main Stream Media — also known as part of the “un-official Barack Obama campaign staff” — have fallend all over themselves and moistened their panties for Everything Obama, would be funny.
If it wasn’t so devestatingly in-your-face out in the open.
The media isn’t even trying to hide the fact that they are trying to get Obama elected. They are no longer “reporting the news” — they are merely trying to sell the American public something other than the unbiased truth.
But the Right is not standing still and taking it. We don’t have to anymore. The MSM is no longer the gatekeeper of information. And as fewere and fewere Americans get their news from them, the role and influence of the MSM is quickly dying.
I won’t be at their funeral. But I’ll try to remember to write an obituary to note their passing.
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Today, Sen. John McCain calls out the Ny Times as “the partisan paper of record”, and (accurately) accuses it of being “an Obama advocacy organization” and displaying “a willful disregard of the truth.”
Sen. McCain cuts right to the heart of the “why”:
The New York Times is trying to fill an ideological niche. It is a business decision, and one made under economic duress, as the New York Times is a failing business.
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Tony Blankley at Real Clear Politics is much less nuanced in his assesment of the MSM and their role in Obama’s campaign:
The mainstream media have gone over the line and are now straight-out propagandists for the Obama campaign.
While they have been liberal and blinkered in their worldview for decades, in 2007-08, for the first time, the major media consciously are covering for one candidate for president and consciously are knifing the other. This is no longer journalism; it is simply propaganda. (The American left-wing version of the Völkischer Beobachter cannot be far behind.)
And as a result, we are less than seven weeks away from possibly electing a president who has not been thoroughly or even halfway honestly presented to the country by our watchdogs — the press. The image of Obama that the press has presented to the public is not a fair approximation of the real man. They consciously have ignored whole years of his life and have shown a lack of curiosity about such gaps, which bespeaks a lack of journalistic instinct.
Go read the entire post, which talks about how the media has willfully and intentionally neglected to report or investigate entire gaps in Obama’s life story.
Which just wouln’t fit their agenda nor their narrative.
That implies that the NYT is becoming more partisan in an effort to gain more readers, in response to the dwindling circulation.
While that may be true, I think it is more accurate to say that the NYT’s diminishing market share is a result of their partisanship.
Essentially, they are trying to extinguish a fire by throwing gasoline on it.
We may be witnessing the end of an era (we can always hope, right?)
Left by Colin on September 24th, 2008 at 11:40 am