Posted by
Bill Crawford on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 11:03:07 PM
It's just amazing to see a network news division prostitute itself out to an administraion like this.
Let's have a news show from the Blue Room. And a town hall meeting with 'open' questions. I've watched Obama go on for over a half hour now about where the money is going to come from in present taxation and future savings for his health care initiatives, and there is nobody in sight who has any issues with the notion that adding so many people to government funded health care (including all the illegals among us) is not going to explode our costs from day one.
I've gone into the health care issues before, and will be happy to again in the future. But for now, the issue is, how incredible it is to see a whole network news division allow themselves to be played like a violin like this.
None of this surprises me. This has been a long time coming in the networks. I wasn't surprised that Dan Rather and Mary Mapes used bogus information and evidence to try and prove that Bush was dodging military service obligations- all less than three months before a national Presidential election in 2004. It was so egregious that both of them lost their jobs over it. But Rather STILL poses it as "unvarnished truth".
We are living in an age where we must all find our own truth in the media. We can't trust the managing editors and talking faces to present us with anything objective anymore. It is a citizen's responsibility to do that, just as it was in 1776.
I don't have a problem with that. I do have a problem with a network like ABC acting the way it does and still posing itself as some sort of harbinger of objectivity, as they still do.