Media's Presidential Bias and Decline

ABC News by Michael Malone | Oct. 28, 2008 (Opinion)

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

The sheer bias in the print and television coverage of this election campaign is not just bewildering, but appalling. And over the last few months I've found myself slowly moving from shaking my head at the obvious one-sided reporting, to actually shouting at the screen of my television and my laptop ... Full Story »

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Subjects: Politics, Media, U.S.
Topics: Media and Politics, Presidential Election 2008, Journalism, Ethics in Journalism
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Posted by: Posted by Fabrice Florin - Oct 28, 2008 - 5:21 AM PDT
Reviewed by: Fabrice Florin (review), Kaizar Campwala (review), Glen Hutcheson (review), Valliappa Lakshmanan (review)
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Edited by: Fabrice Florin - Oct 28, 2008 - 5:21 AM PDT
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 by Kaizar Campwala - Oct. 28, 2008

It takes the author three pages to even explain what bias he's complaining about, and when he does it's not a very interesting or insightful. For a far better consideration of media bias in campaign coverage, review the Politico piece (See Links tab)

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 by Valliappa Lakshmanan - Oct. 28, 2008

I stopped reading at page 2. This is simply dreadful

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 by Fabrice Florin - Oct. 28, 2008
Fabrice posted this story.
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 by Glen Hutcheson - Oct. 28, 2008

Poorly written. It's a pity: while bemoaning journalism's decline, Mr. Malone models the sort of performance that gives journalism a bad name.

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