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When I saw this headline on the Drudge Report, I was shocked. The headline shows the traditional Drudge bias, of course. Here’s my marked up version:
I have a firm belief that news reporters, producers, writers, and decision makers should not be biased. When they donate, they obliterate that bias.
“Sure,” they might say, “I still can cover things objectively.”
You might think you can, but no. Your objectivity is gone. Credibility is the single-most valuable thing a reporter (and news agency) has, and when you tarnish it, you’re left with nothing. You might as well switch to blogging for all the good it will do you. For a while now, we have been unable to trust the Fourth Estate to bring us the news stories we need to read. Unchecked consolidations have seen to that.
Personally, I am a registered Independent. That’s because I share the same level of contempt for Democrats AND Republicans. Neither party has shown themselves to be forthright and honest, and it’s starting to catch up with them, as seen in this headline from USA Today:
Of course partisans would say, “See? The Democrat majority is more hated than the Republican one it replaced!”
Yes and no. Congress has been on a downhill slide for decades now as we grow more and more tired of their pork politics and amazing ability to run our great country into the ground. There’s really nothing new here, other than more people are starting to wake up.
“Finally,” is all I can say.
June 21st, 2007 at 2:46 pm
My professors at Syracuse would be proud of you. In journalism school they certainly teach not to make your opinions known. I actually had one professor that never even took free food at an event because he didn’t trust himself to be fair if he took it. (Everyone’s happy with a full stomach.) It’s nearly impossible, though, not to have opinions as a human being. But a reporter never should make his or her views known and should do all he or she can to give unbiased reporting.
June 21st, 2007 at 3:23 pm
And just how is that Drudge headline “biased”? It’s a fact. The numbers are in the story. Reporters give the Dems more money. You say you’re independent…however, your fear of the truth suggest otherwise.
-C
June 21st, 2007 at 9:34 pm
The headline says that Democrats give more than Republicans when the real story is that journalists give at all. It’s an example of looking through the story to find the slant.
Given that most journalists are free-speech-trumpeting, flag-burning-amendment-hating liberals, it’s akin to the story that the predominantly white referee staff in the predominantly black NBA call more fouls on black players. Wouldn’t that go without saying?
If you live in a town that’s 90% Asian and a headline appears in the paper calling the city police force for citing more Asians than any other demographic, is that a story?
Your comment is a good example with how Americans have stopped challenging the established media and accept whatever they feeding us on a given day.
June 22nd, 2007 at 2:20 pm
No. That’s your take on the story. Yeah, it’s disgusting it’s gotten to the point where “journalists” wear their politics on their sleeve. What’s even more disgusting, is that, contrary to their constant denials, the majority of all media IS biased. Liberals all…save for a few beacons of light. The story is further proof.
June 23rd, 2007 at 4:28 am
There isn’t anything wrong with being liberal or conservative. Here at writhaus we have people who wear birkenstocks and people who are so conservative, they only get up on the right side of the bed. Neither of them is right 100% of the time, in my opinion. You’d know that if they’d contribute more stories (there was a really nice piece on gun control that just sort of evaporated, among other things).
Someone having a “take” on a story is slanting it. That’s what Drudge and/or Drudge’s people did. I pulled it back and focused the spotlight on the story itself. I know it can be shocking to see real journalism nowadays, but we’re doing our part to pressure wash the grime away.
Where you see beacons of light, I see people with agendas.