Could Tribune employees soon be working for the Koch Bros?

Are you saying there's less scrutiny by the media with the current admininistration or more?

Because I seem to recall a little war that was started by the previous administration in which the media flat-out was cheerleading for.

 

I'm talking about the yellow journalism of Hearst and others.

 

So was Walter Cronkite on the side of the GOP or the Libs? Do you even remember when there were only four televised national news organizations?

And thank you, Joe.

 

Walter Cronkite was a Communist. Haven't you ever seen All In The Family?

 

All in the Family was racist.

 

Media was cheerleading its Dem icons who were thoroughly on board with the stated reasons for and objectives of that war. And still, there was considerable blowback about "cleaning up Daddy's unfinished business."

Perhaps we can compare the differences in how Watergate and Benghazi scandals, with trails all the way up to the WH, have been covered. Despite enormous disparity in the severity of the two events.

Or hell, just ask the people Leno routinely stumps on Jay-Walking a simple question: Have the news media gotten more liberal or more conservative? Even they could come up with obvious answer.

 

Yes, let's compare Watergate vs. Benghazi: One was about covering up a crime committed, as well as other ways to rig the American electoral process. The other was a botched answer given on a TV show about an series of violent attacks several days after it had happened.

 

POLITICS! YAY!!!!!!

 

Scoreboard in human toll: Benghazi 4, Watergate 0.

"Botched answer on a TV show." Yeah, right, falsehood repeated for nearly two weeks by multiple administration members, including POTUS, to keep the story away from re-election was just a big silly "oops!" on "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" or something.

Your lack of skepticism and absence of even-handedness (how the story would be covered, how the questions about be asked and pursued, if Bush were presiding over that event) prove exactly the point I've been making. Anyone whose reaction to this stuff swings according to whose butt is in the Oval Office has no business in any real newsroom, feigning any sort of journalism cred at all.

 

POLITICS EXCELSIOR!!!!!!!

 

Politics is all about gamesmanship, and now more than ever.

 

You and Devil need to have a Dumb-Off.