Media Bias
Walter Shorenstein, a prominent San Francisco-based real estate developer, Democratic fundraiser and longtime supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton wrote a memo blasting the media for its biased coverage of the presidential campaign. He’s also the founder of “a prestigious institute on media and politics,” the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University. He sent his memo to Democratic party “superdelegates” and other activists.
“I am absolutely outraged with the media coverage of the presidential campaign,” he wrote in the memo. “This is the most important election in my long lifetime, and to quote one of my favorite movies, ‘I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!’”
He went on to write: “There is too much on the line for the media to ignore important issues while they obsess about Hillary’s hairdo or Barack’s baritone. Is it in the country’s best interest that voters received far more information about Hillary’s laugh than Obama’s legislative record? Is it good for our nation that more attention is paid to the differences in their speaking style than their health care plans?”
Conclusion: “Our democracy depends upon the fourth estate to fulfill the uniquely critical role of informing voters about the important issues facing our nation. Yet far too often, the campaign coverage has been biased, blase, or baseless.”
Quite right.
One gets the impression, however, that the American media aren’t interested in spending any attention to the issues or to (other) thing that should actually matter to voters. All they try to do is to get the people nominated they want to be nominated.
It’s a problem.
It is remarkable, as Don Surber points out, that Clinton’s Democratic supporters only start talking about this issue now that they’re the victims. Conservatives have always been treated in this manner. The media worship the Democratic candidate and Democratic politicians and go after true conservatives whenever they can. Perhaps it’s time for more reasonable liberals to speak out about that as well, no?
