Posted by
Tzimisce on Thursday, September 04, 2008 3:05:35 AM
Oh woah is our pitiful media. They really don’t deserve the horrible criticisms coming at them from everyone with any sense of ethics. The little people just don’t understand the trials and tribulations of having such an important job.
How dare we ask these people to endorse Sarah Palin? It’s not their job to openly back political candidates. They’re supposed to remain neutral right? So questions about family, friends, acquaintances, the church she goes too, where she might stand on the issues, the types of legislation she has backed, the things she’s voted for all should be fair game, right? How dare us outsiders try to tell them how to do journalism? If it was that easy they wouldn’t need degrees from Harvard and Yale.
Well pardon my surprise. You in the media have pretty much endorsed Obama. From what I understand you were dancing and cheering while he was delivering his speech at the Democrat Convention. You seem bored when anyone suggests that you investigate Obama’s connection to his friend Bill Ayres. And when the Jeremiah Wright story broke, you told us that people in a candidate’s private life and church really didn’t matter. And what about Joe Biden’s son Hunter who is right now in court fighting charges related to corruption charges? Aren’t any of you worried about that? Cause I haven’t seen it.
So I’m sorry that I expect the same treatment of Sarah Palin. For all the positives you’re giving Obama from your photos of him looking like he’s got a halo to your ignoring all his gaffes to your always putting a sunny slant to his poor use of phrases, please excuse me for not surprised but still critical. For all your talk of “fairness” and “balance” and “neutrality” your actions aren’t reflecting any of it. Weren’t you just complaining a few weeks ago that there were too many negative attacks and we should just “stick to the issues”? So why is it okay if you engage in it?
I can’t believe you’re dragging a seventeen year old girl through the mud because you don’t like the political ideas of her mother. Bristol Palin isn’t running for anything. I’ve seen less smear stories about Jamie Lynn Spears who is younger than Bristol.
Oh – so her mother is in favor of abstinence only education. Anyone who has ever had kids, been around kids or read stories about kids will tell you that kids tend to have minds of their own. Isn’t it possible that Bristol wanted to become pregnant? Probably a stupid choice on her part and probably made without her mother’s consent, but isn’t that young Bristol’s private choice? Liberals and media types have been telling us for years that no one (including the parents) should be allowed to tell or influence a girl about what to do with her body. Isn’t that why they’re fighting all those parental notification laws?
So why are you putting it all over the front page? And why do you expect me to pat you on the back when you shovel out your obvious smear campaign?
According to you guys John Edwards doesn’t deserve this treatment and he was actually running for president. The guy fathered a child while his wife was sick and while running for president and the response from you journalist types yawn and order your employees specifically not to report on it. That’s not just pathetic, it’s out and out propaganda. The only difference is that you don’t need a government agency coordinating your actions, you’re doing fine by yourselves.
And now to listen to you cry about all the deserved criticism you’re getting? I’d laugh at you if I wasn’t getting physically ill. Question: you’re journalists. What happens when several sources, each independent of each other give you the same story? Wouldn’t you start to conclude that the story is probably true? So if you’re getting the same types of criticism from multiple sources, doesn’t it make sense that the critics are on to something?
But hey – don’t listen to me. Listen to you slumping circulation, low ratings and shrinking newsrooms. Yeah, you don’t have a political agenda any more than we think you’re biased. We’re just choosing to get our news from more reliable sources.
Wow you journalists (and you know who you are) are so brave attacking a little girl who can’t defend herself. It’s too bad she’s not an extremist Muslim “freedom fighter” or Chelsea Clinton who if I remember correctly was kicked out of Oxford for not going to class or an “undocumented migrant” or the obviously innocent victim of the racist system Tookie Williams.
Oh woah is you.