Fair and Balanced Media?

Fair and balanced media? Hardly the case in this election (or in general for that fact).

Today's media reports (and "investigates") what they want - not what is really news worthy and important. In addition they mix editorial with news and blur the line between fact and opinion. Examples of their bias include the following:

• House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has five children but no one asked her if she is able to spend adequate time raising them. Palin on the hand has been criticized for trying to run for VP with 5 children.
• John Edwards, who was a presidential candidate, admitted an affair but denies being the father of the women's child. Mainstream media no longer considers it news worthy despite the pending outcome of the paternity test. Yet Palin's daughter Bristol in under intense scrutiny for becoming pregnant as a teenager.
• Obama's links to William Ayers have not been asked despite the fact that Ayers was convicted and jailed. Palin on the other hand was accused of dirty politics for firing her brother in law from the Alaska state police despite the fact that he is accused of tasering his nephew.
• Obama's voting record or more appropriately lack of voting record (missed and no votes) has not been brought to light. Why not? His job in the US Senate and Illinois legislature was to sponsor and vote on bills yet his track record is limited. McCain's voting record is criticized because he voted with President Bush's opinion 90% of the time. At least he showed up and voted for the majority of the bills.

There are a number of other examples from the past including Jesse Jackson's love child, Biden raising his children as a single father, to the Clinton affairs in the White House.

The news media wants two things at the end of the day - ratings (which drives ad revenues and profits) and to push their own liberal agenda. They sensationalize everything and promote their beliefs.

Now I realize that all media does not fall into this trap. There are also a small handful that fall into the opposite trap (that sees no wrong with conservatives). But I will call out 5 of the 6 major network news outlets for being biased - ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, and PBS.

The American people will see through some of it. We are not as dumb as the media elite thinks. In the end it will probably backfire against them because the average is smarter than them.