Skip to main content

Make Up Your Own Mind...







http://floppingaces.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/media-bias.jpg

I just couldn't help myself. After last night's debate, I flipped through the different news channels to hear analysis and commentary. WOW! We are in serious trouble in our country. It is no wonder why we are so uniformed -or shall I say misinformed- about the issues in this country. The liberal stations picked Obama as winner before the debate began and FoxNews, the lone conservative station, touted Romney the winner. MSNBC, one the most liberal stations, outright told their viewers that Obama won "handily." Really??? Were they watching the same debate that I watched? I came away from the debate thinking neither candidate won. To me they both seemed like angry men trying to prove something of which they had little or no knowledge.

I have a grand idea. Let's televise the debates but restrict analysis and commentary. Let the viewer make up his own mind. The media is doing a great manipulation job. They are leading their viewers with opinions and non-factual information. To claim Obama or Romney won is not fact... It is OPINION. Maybe it is the trained journalist coming out in me. I was taught to never show bias, rather to disseminate the facts of the situation. When I write for a newspaper, I tell facts based on hard numbers or information obtained from quotations or official documents/transcripts. It doesn't matter how I personally feel toward the matter; the job is to present straight facts. This is not what today's media is doing. They are skewing the information to support their own opinions.

This, of course, applies to more than just the debates. It applies to all the current events and national issues that have deluged us as Americans. Why was it that when George W. Bush was in office, the media blamed him for everything from gas prices, to the war on terror, to the slumping economy to tax breaks and stimulus checks, but Obama gets a free pass on the same issues. We never hear the media slam Obama over the economy, the continued recession, unemployment, out-of-controlled spending and his failed foreign policy which just recently has shown incompetence and deception over the Benghazi terrorist attack. When Bush was President, he was criticized for unemployment numbers in the 5-6% range, but the media never pins the 7-8% numbers on Obama. In fact, they blame Bush for those as well.

This all goes to show that our media is biased. No question. Not opinion. FACT. America better wake up, turn off the TV and start researching the issues for themselves and drawing accurate conclusions from it. If not, America is a fast-sinking ship, and we perish with it.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Crossing the Line.... The Sin of Androgyny

  Puke, Vomit, Hurl. These are the best words I can bring up (pun intended) to describe my disgust for cultural androgyny – the societal blurring of the gender lines. We live in a culture where masculinity is criticized for its rough exterior and insensitivity, and feminism is elevated as the preferred trait among men. To succumb to this idea, it is now acceptable for parents buy their son girls’ jeans and allow him to grow his hair out long enough to make Rapunzel jealous. This same culture that belittles masculinity in men, promotes it for women. Our daughters are told that there are no barriers or rules for dress. Anything goes, even if that means looking the part of their male counterparts. Society warns that it would be an epic failure to ask individuals to don a gender-appropriate hairstyle or wear gender-appropriate attire because “you may damage their psyche” and you might “limit their opportunity to express individuality.” In the 1970s, Sandra Bem – the inventor of the B
2 comments
Read more

"And We Esteemed Him Not"

During a recent Sunday evening service, Pastor Bickelhaupt asked what it was that is so important as to keep church members from attending church when they know the doors are open and services are being held. He went on to say that people willfully reject the prospect of meeting with Christ Himself (as His presence is promised when the church meets together in His name). Jesus promises in Matthew 18:20, “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”  Pastor implied that there are too many professing Christians who find it preferable to attend the weekly Sunday morning worship hour, but find gracing the church building outside of that service to be merely optional, an inconvenience, or just not that important.   It got me thinking. What could possibly be more important than meeting with the Savior?! Here is Someone Who gave everything for us. He literally sacrificed a heavenly abode for an earthly bed mat, for scripture reveals that He had no
Post a Comment
Read more

Enabling Parent: Confront yourself, not your child's teacher

Have you ever wrongly blamed someone for something you didn't know you did? I think we've all been there. It's not a pleasant situation to find yourself in for sure, because crow tastes awful. I remember once blaming a college roommate for throwing away a midterm paper I had spent hours writing. I became flustered and angry and said some regrettable things to him. After rewriting my assignment, I headed to the printing lab, where I had left my first report lying at the printing table. Open mouth, insert crow. Fastforward 18 years. I am now an educator, and our school just finished up our first-quarter Parent-Teacher Conference. I dread the Parent-Teacher Conference. My fellow teachers also dread them. Why?  In one word.... Parents.  Today's parents (for the most part) are enablers. The enabling trend has worsened over the years with the ever-increasing influence of technology and the digital age (the connection is worthy of its own blog). Over the last 15
Post a Comment
Read more