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.
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