and about gay marriage This would also be a good time to quote Newsweek's Evan Thomas : "There's one other base here, the media. Let's talk a little media bias here. The media, I think, wants Kerry to win and I think they're going to portray Kerry and Edwards I'm talking about the establishment media, not Fox. They're going to portray Kerry and Edwards as being young and dynamic and optimistic and there's going to be this glow about them, collective glow, the two of them, that's going to be worth maybe 15 points." Finally, one of the liberal spin tactics in denying liberal bias is to say that the media is controlled by a bunch of big corporations that lean Republican. Not true. A study of the 25 largest media corps shows that they give more money to Dems than Reps. Democrats received about 15.8 million dollars out of a total of 26.7 million during the 2000 and 2002 election cycles while Reps only received about 10.9 milllion.
and here's the now departed howell raines from about 18 months ago. O! the irony! http://www.mediaresearch.org/notablequotables/dishonor/04/award3.asp "Our greatest accomplishment as a profession is the development since World War II of a news reporting craft that is truly non-partisan, and non-ideological, and that strives to be independent of undue commercial or governmental influence....But we don’t wear the political collar of our owners or the government or any political party. It is that legacy we must protect with our diligent stewardship. To do so means we must be aware of the energetic effort that is now underway to convince our readers that we are ideologues. It is an exercise of, in disinformation, of alarming proportions, this attempt to convince the audience of the world’s most ideology-free newspapers that they’re being subjected to agenda-driven news reflecting a liberal bias.”
