Our Press and media!!??
Posted: September 9th, 2008 | Author: Don | Filed under: Misc | Tags: ad, ads, democratic, McCain, media, Obama, Politics, press, radio, Republican, tv | 2 Comments »Ok, I haven’t been watching much TV for the past 10 or 15 years, unless I’m staying at someone’s house and they have it on, or when I’m at the gym (which has TVs in front of the treadmills that I use), etc.
In the last 4 weeks I have been watching CNN and local news when on the treadmills. 99% of the news I have seen politically has been on Obama, and ONLY in a favorable way. And I mean hours and hours of it! They tell us VERY little about his past, very little about the negative things in his life, etc.
Now, on the other hand, just about the only things I’ve seen on the McCain side have been all of the bad things about him. And in two cases, those “bad” things were 100% wrong. Same with Polin, all bad and speculation with no foundation.
I have seen 100 ads (I counted!!) from the Obama court to every 3 McCain ads. Is it because McCain isn’t buying ads, or is it because the press and media is only putting them up when they have to?
What happened (if it was ever so) to the Press and public medias being a place to get UNBIASED reporting on the FACTS and not posting an internal agenda?
Let’s get to posting facts, figures, and 100% verifiable information on BOTH candidates and their running mates, not speculation, innuendos, lies, etc. And for equal amounts of time on the air and in the papers! Both good and bad info on these folks, so we can make a REAL decision based on fact and not slanted mis-information!
We all kind of see what we want to see, don’t we? I’ve seen just the opposite of what you’ve seen. Oh, well…
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Len, when and what are you watching? The RARE times I watch TV I watch CNN, CNBC, and related types of channels. Typically in the morning, and lately it’s mainly been CNN. There have been very rare articles on McCain and his campaign, and all negative. Not one bit of negative on Obama, but TONS of positive stuff, almost every thing that comes on the air in the morning is on Obama. Don’t get me wrong, I like NEITHER Candidate, but would at least like to see stuff, ALL the stuff, on BOTH parties, and not just good on one…
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