There is little question as to the slant taken in the typical "mainstream" media.
It is decidedly leftist, with far too few exceptions.
OK, so this is no real news to anyone who understands personal freedom, personal responsibility, less government, and lower taxes and actually reads, watches TV or listens to the radio.
But even I am sometimes amazed and disgusted with the news concerning Iraq that we are fed as citizens. 99.9% of the time it is the most negative, discouraging, and bleak news we hear each day.
We keep hearing the comparison between Vietnam and Iraq.
I don't see it, personally, except maybe in one glaring instance: Daily BODY COUNTS from the press.
I read a news article today that was posted by the Associated Press.
Although it ran 19 paragraphs long, it was rather short. By that, I mean each "paragraph" was but perhaps a sentence or two.
However, 10 of these paragraphs referred to body counts, numbers of victims, ages of victims, genders of victims, numbers of which faction were killed, and so on.
More than 50% of the content told us nothing more than what the headline had already said, with the exception of telling and re-telling HOW MANY WERE KILLED.
I have a rudimentary understanding of journalism's role in society.
That role deals with disseminating facts and information.
But where has the balance gone? What happened to merely reporting events as they unfold?
Surely, there must be something happening in the U.S. War On Terror to give encouragement and hope.
Yes, we need to learn what is going badly.
But don't we also deserve to hear what is going well?
The truth should not end up in the Editor's waste basket because of political bias.
