Political - skip if you wish

[kcjenkins]

http://patterico.com/2009/08/19/msnbc-guys...from-your-view/

[Gail in Virginia]

This really is a sad commentary on our news media today. It is getting to the point where you can't believe anything that you hear on television or read in the paper because everyone has their own agenda and is slanting what they report to best support their point of view. What happened to saving the commentary for the editorial page and reporting only the facts as clearly and fairly as possible? Did that ever happen or was it always just a pipe dream that reporters paid lip service to? :(

[kcjenkins]

There has always been some bias, no doubt, but I've never seen such a totally outrageous example as this one, where the film was so totally edited to present a lie as fact.

[JohnH]

I think true impartiality was always a pipe dream (or a scam). All information has to be edited in some form or another, and one's biases have to influence HOW the editing is done. I'd rather see the presenters on both sides admit their biases while giving us the news rather than to pretend to be unbiased when they aren't.

That way I can enjoy Rachel Maddow, Keith Olberman, Chris Matthews, etc, then switch over to Bill O'Reilly, Shawn Hannity, or Rush Limbaugh, (insert your favorite figures on both sides here) and make a more reasoned decision about what each side is trying to tell me about what I'm seeing & hearing. (Even though I still won't know if something important has been edited out by both sides, I can gain a better perspective and maybe decide to dig a little deeper)

The reporting on this particular story is beyond despicable, and should be front-page news everywhere. Wherever this story has been dealt with, I haven't yet heard anyone advance even the wildest rationale defending it. Even the Ragin Cajun Carville or Paul Begala haven't spoken out on it, and they're both capable of contorting reality to defend almost anything the left does.