Category Archives: media bias

Stuart Taylor on the Bias of the Old Media

Distinguished journalist Stuart Taylor of National Journal has an excellent story on the bias of the Old Media this campaign season.  Taylor writes:  “I no longer trust the major newspapers or television networks to provide consistently accurate and fair reporting and analysis of the all the charges and countercharges.”  Old Media are trusted less and …

September 19, 2008 – 2:15 pm | By BenjaminFranklin | Posted in 2008 U.S. Election, McCain, Obama, media bias | Tagged , | Comments (0)

ABC’s Charlie Gibson Misquotes Palin

Mr. Gibson, Are you a liar or misinformed? Which is better for your career? In the interview, Gibson asked Palin: “You said recently in your old church, ‘Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God.’ Are we fighting a Holy War?” Palin’s response, which appears in the transcript but …

September 14, 2008 – 4:16 pm | By AverageJoe | Posted in 2008 U.S. Election, McCain, Sarah Palin, media bias | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

The Old Media: Tough on Palin, Soft on Obama

AverageJoe is absolutely right–when will the Old Media grill Obama the way they do Palin? The answer is never. ABC News’ Charlie Gibson’s performance in his interview with Palin this week was despicable. More and more Americans realize the Old Media cannot be trusted to be professional, to be the hard-nosed journalists they should be …

September 13, 2008 – 10:52 pm | By BenjaminFranklin | Posted in 2008 U.S. Election, Democratic Party, McCain, Republican Party, Sarah Palin, media bias | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Sarah Palin ABC Interview with Charlie Gibson

Great interview of the potential VP of the United States. When do we get to hear the media ask these questions of Barrack Obama?

September 13, 2008 – 12:59 pm | By AverageJoe | Posted in McCain, media bias | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Hilarious CNN clip

OBSESSED MUCH!?

September 11, 2008 – 4:56 pm | By AverageJoe | Posted in For Fun, media bias | Comments (0)

More On Making Democrats Red Again

Great comment from reader PatrickHenry. I want to reprint it: Comment from PatrickHenry Time September 8, 2008 at 5:44 pm Good observations. The following article might be of interest to readers: http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/1430/ Not only does it confirm the fact that Republicans have been designated the blue party on several occasions, but it highlights the history …

September 9, 2008 – 12:45 pm | By BenjaminFranklin | Posted in 2008 U.S. Election, Blue States, Democratic Party, McCain, Red States, Republican Party, U.S. Defense Policy, media bias | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

What’s up with MoveOn.org and Google AdSense!?

Anyone have input on this?  Isn’t Google Adsense supposed to provide targeted ads?  90% of the time I see MoveOn.org ads promoting Obama and nothing else.  Perhaps there is just too much Obama content…  Not like I am helping the situation right now

September 8, 2008 – 7:32 pm | By AverageJoe | Posted in media bias | Comments (0)

Making Democrats Red Again

Historically, Republicans were represented by the color blue and Democrats by the color red. So how did Democrats become blue and Republicans red? Consider these examples of electoral maps from 1980, 1984, 1988, and 1992. But something curious happened in 1996, the colors representing America’s two major political parties changed. Republicans became red and Democrats …

September 6, 2008 – 4:41 pm | By BenjaminFranklin | Posted in 2008 U.S. Election, Bill Clinton, Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Republican Party, media bias | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (1)

Thankfully, Newt Fights Back

Former Speaker Newt Gingrich fights back against MSNBC’s Ron Allen, who argued McCain’s Vice Presidential pick Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska does not have enough experience.

September 3, 2008 – 1:33 pm | By BenjaminFranklin | Posted in 2008 U.S. Election, McCain, Sarah Palin, media bias | Comments (1)

So It’s Obama and Biden–Plus ca change…

Barack Obama selected Sen. Joe Biden to be his running mate. So what does this mean?

August 23, 2008 – 1:09 pm | By BenjaminFranklin | Posted in 2008 U.S. Election, McCain, Obama, U.S. Defense Policy, U.S. Foreign Policy, media bias | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)