There is no doubt that in this past election that the media was skewed to promote Barack Obama. Almost every story was about something positive Obama has done and how Joe Biden is just a swell guy, they never criticized him for all the errors he made. For example when he said that when the stock market crashed Roosevelt got on TV and told everybody what happened. First of all Roosevelt wasn't President in 1920 and there was no such thing as television!!!! (go here to see the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBl7jrD1GzU&feature=related)
Now the media tore Sarah Palin apart every time she said something not so intelligent, yet this did not apply to Biden. Obama had many scandals involving his illegal aunt, questionable friends, and his immigration status. But no, you never heard about that on CBS now did you. After the election the washington post did a review and said that they were bias towards Barack Obama.
This is ridiculous. I hope the same thing doesn't happen in 2012 because if it does than our democracy is at stake. We can not have main stream media only covering one candidate, no matter who it is. Republican or democrat the news should be fair and balanced. The job of the press is to provided facts and allow the people to decide. This time that just didn't happen and the election results showed that.
A fairness law is trying to be passed that would make the media give equal time to conservative and liberal radio and talk shows. This is ridiculous and limits the first amendment. It is not the fault of the people that they like conservative show better than liberal ones, but lets face it, who wants to hear w hole bunch of democrats whine. Conservatives are just better. We cant limit our first amendment just because people don't like liberal talk shows.
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