Friday, September 5, 2008

I'm Sick of Election Coverage

After listening to both the Democratic and Republican Conventions I'm sick of the news media and their coverage. I've had it with Chris Matthews, David Gregory, Wolf Blitzer, Andrea Mitchell and all the rest. The endless speculation and false concern about experience, vetting, the Religious Right and all the endless polls have made me realize just how pointless and hopeless it is to base any decision on media coverage of the candidates. This evening while watching "Washington Week in Review", one of the panelists when talking about if the questions about Sarah Palin were fair or sexist said that there was only 60 days till the election and the media didn't have the time to be nice while digging up the truth for the public. God I will sleep better tonight knowing that the media is in charge of the truth. 
I know that we need a free media to be informed about the workings of our government but they also need to be impartial. The media is anything but impartial these days. Fox and to a lesser extent CNN are pro Republican and MSNBC and NPR are very pro Democratic Party. So it is hard to get an unbiased and impartial story from any of these organizations. In fact ever since Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein took down Nixon most reporters are looking to do the same. "Gotta you" reporting is about all there is anymore, but gotta you reporting is not fair or unbiased or impartial.  I will make my decision from reading blogs, official web sites and maybe the debates and Chris Matthews can take his hardball and play in some other sandlot. 

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