Republican National Convention and media bias


We have all heard about the liberal media bias... want to see it in action? Watch the Republican National Convention this week and you will see. First off, NBC is not showing it... oh yeah, CBS is not showing, it and uh, ABC is not showing it. They devoted hours and hours and hours to showing the Democratic National Convention. Oh, they are showing snippets, but for every pulled soundbite, they have twice as much time devoted to 'analysts' who rip it to shreds. Oh yeah, that great bastion of conservatism PBS (that's sarcasm) is showing it - but they are doing the old standby of showing part of a speech and then an hour of analysts and pundits pointing out the supposed fallacies in the speech. There is nowhere on network TV that you can just watch the damn thing.

So what do you do? Turn to CSPAN. Not only are they not biased, they are not giving 'any' opinions. They simply cover it! How novel is that? Just cover the damn thing and keep your opinion out of the mix. It is as if the folks at CSPAN are giving the American public credit for being able to make up their own minds about things. I highly recommend the CSPAN coverage - I just watched a concert between speakers. The networks would never show something as entertaining as a musician and everyone having a good time... you might decide that these Republicans aren't as evil as they say. (Remember the last Clinton Democratic convention and the whole Fleetwood Mac "Don't Stop" thing? Dancing, having a good time etc.) That happens at the Republican conventions too, you just never see it.

Sure, the Republicans have their problems too, but the dishonesty of network media just makes me want to vote Republican. This kind of slight-of-hand trickery is dishonest and speaks very poorly of the whole liberal movement.

- posted by Chris @ 8:54 PM