Anyone else smell any media Bias in Election Coverage?

[Joshua Dorkin]

I was wondering what you all thought about how the Media has been handling the Primaries and Caucuses. Personally, I think they are being irresponsible and showing complete bias in their coverage of the various campaigns.

Does anyone else get this sense?

I feel like all of them have chosen Barack Obama and John McCain as the presumptive winners of their respective parties, and have done nothing but show these guys in a positive light. At the same time, the other republicans can't get a break, and Edwards is an also ran in their minds. Finally, no matter how good the news, Clinton can't get a positive headline - she destroyed Obama really bad tonight in Florida, but there is hardly a mention. The millions of Floridians who voted are not important as far as they are concerned (IMO - because Obama didn't take it).

If the media can't tell the news in an unbiased manner, they shouldn't do so. Their role is not to tell people ho to vote for and who to like, but to present the news in an unbiased manner.

Ironically, of the major TV networks, I actually think Fox (who we all know leans in one direction) is the least guilty of this. I can't find a paper, magazine, or blog that isn't guilty of this nonsense!

NOTE - This is not intended to be a political discussion, but one on the media. If this thread gets out of hand (as political threads sometimes do :wink:) I'll have to shut it down.