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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

No Game 3- Media Bias: A look at todays nightly news.

Media bias a thing everybody knows but some people hide, also a favorite subject of radio talk show host's. But no would like to look at a recent case of it, in fact one that happened today. Now this wasn’t any local news (otherwise known as murder news),Channal any armature news commentator trying to push his agenda. This was NBC Nightly News with Brain Williams. Except this was not the slip of Mr. Williams, but rather NBC’s well respected political commenter and anchor of Meet the Press, Tim Russert.

It was at the beginning of the Nightly News program when this slip, of their well known agenda happened. The first report was on the dropping poll numbers for the Bush administration and support for the Iraq war. This poll had just come out so NBC News was not able (or I believe) to make a report on it. So as in all panic situations have your star commentator come and bail you out. So that’s what happened accept this is were mistake happen. When there is no script, no teleprompter, simple off the top of your head and notes. This is where your true thoughts arise. So back to the story, Russert had gone over the deep trouble that this administration is in, helping the future, economy, Iraq, etc.

Then suddenly the mistake happed. When talking about the poll number about who should control congress this happened, “And here is the result. 37% say republicans, 50% say democrats. A 13 point bulge for the democrats, very good news.” He then went on to say how with that number the democrats could recapture the House and the senate.

Ok, so your trying to tell me that the media isn’t bias, think again.

Here is were you can witness it for yourself.

3 Comments:

At 3/16/2006 6:44 AM, Blogger Aidan said...

I left a comment on Tash's blog about this.

 
At 3/16/2006 4:12 PM, Blogger Gayle said...

I sure won't tell you the media isn't biased! Ha! They prove it over and over again. I would probably fall over in a dead faint if they started sounding un-biased.

 
At 3/17/2006 5:03 AM, Blogger Silas said...

I saw the Tim Russert thing. Quite a slip.

 

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