In what appears to be a sort of penultimate post for the time being, the Bidinotto Blog has a post titled Belated mea culpas from the MSM. There are links in the post, and some of them link to other links, so if you’re in doubt, there’s plenty of information there and linked there to make the point.
The gist is simple: all over the media, print and broadcast, “journalists” and “ombudsmen” are finally admitting what any slightly intelligent person already knew, that the media essentially abdicated its responsibility to do honest reporting and full investigation of Obama and Biden, to follow up leads, to air information rebutting their claims, etc., while going overboard in attacking Palin and McCain.
It isn’t up for discussion: they’ve basically admitted it. And their admission has great credibility in itself, because it is an admission against interest. So, now, what will they do? I’ve already weighed in on that.
I suspect that over time, the nation may well develop a huge case of buyer’s remorse, and blame it on the used car salesmen masquerading as journalists who lied by what they said, lied by what they didn’t say, lied by what they claimed not to know, and lied by not looking for anything that might turn out to be damaging to the Obama campaign.
While it’s been a joke in the center-right blogosphere that the major media are another wing of the DNC public relations machine, or even just directly an arm of the Obama campaign, that appears to be the literal truth.
And in the final irony, the Democrat Congress seems poised to impose a “fairness doctrine” on talk radio, and to push Obama to sign it, or even just do it administratively via the FCC. There will never, of course, be a “fairness doctrine” for broadcast television…. THAT would be prior restraint of free speech.
Tags: election 2008, media
