Media's Presidential Bias and Decline

Columnist Michael Malone Looks at Slanted Election Coverage and the Reasons Why
Column By MICHAEL S. MALONE
Oct. 24, 2008


The traditional media are playing a very, very dangerous game -- with their readers, with the Constitution and with their own fates.

The media have covered this presidential campaign with a bias and that ultimately could lead to its downfall.

The sheer bias in the print and television coverage of this election campaign is not just bewildering, but appalling...

...what I object to (and I think most other Americans do as well) is the lack of equivalent hardball coverage of the other side -- or worse, actively serving as attack dogs for the presidential ticket of Sens. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Joe Biden, D-Del...

Joe the Plumber

Middle America, even when they didn't agree with Joe, looked on in horror as the press took apart the private life of an average person who had the temerity to ask a tough question of a presidential candidate. So much for the standing up for the little man. So much for speaking truth to power...

read the full abc report

Michael S. Malone is one of the nation's best-known technology writers. He has covered Silicon Valley and high-tech for more than 25 years, beginning with the San Jose Mercury News as the nation's first daily high-tech reporter. His articles and editorials have appeared in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, the Economist and Fortune, and for two years he was a columnist for The New York Times. He was editor of Forbes ASAP, the world's largest-circulation business-tech magazine, at the height of the dot-com boom. Malone is the author or co-author of a dozen books, notably the best-selling "Virtual Corporation."

I'm honored to have found one such as this journalist who senses the same dread for the MSM over their biased coverage.(Certainly not comparing myself to this accomplished writer!)

Perhaps it is too late for the MSM to even begin attempting to rectify their insanity...then again...perhaps they are counting on the opportunities they will have for sensational headlines with a democratic win? Could we envision some of those headlines now...selling papers..."READ ALL ABOUT IT...!!!"

"CONGRESS APPOINTS COMMITTEE TO BEGIN WORK ON REWRITING CONSTITUTION"
"SMALL BUSINESS CRASH ON NEAR HORIZON"
"HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS FEARED DEAD FROM NUKE ATTACK ON TEL AVIE ISRAEL"
"PRESIDENT IN NEGOTIATIONS WITH IRAN AND SYRIA FOR TRUCE"
"RUSSIA MOUNTING TROOPS FOR PUSH INTO EUROPE"
"OIL PRICES RISE TO NEAR $200 DOLLARS A BARREL DUE TO WORLD CONFLICT"
"HEALTH CARE SUFFERING LACK OF SUPPLIES ON NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT"

Now, those headlines ought to reinvigorate sales for the paps.

XtnYoda, shalomed