To Donate or Not To Donate
Thursday, June 21st, 2007
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.