The sheer bias in the print and television coverage of this election campaign is not just bewildering, but appalling. And over the last few months I've found myself slowly moving from shaking my head at the obvious one-sided reporting, to actually shouting at the screen of my television and my laptop computer.-- Michael Malone, ABCNews.com "Silicon Insider" columnist
Malone is a journalist who’s previously worked for the San Jose Mercury News, Forbes, and the New York Times, produced three series for PBS, and wrote 12 books. He thinks he understands why media bias for Obama and Democrats is so extreme this year: bad editors. Malone writes:
Picture yourself in your 50s . . . discover[ing] that you're presiding over a dying industry. The Internet and alternative media are stealing your readers, your advertisers and your top young talent. . . The Newspaper Guild is too weak to protect you any more, and there is a very good chance you'll lose your job before you [reach] retirement.
. . . desperate times call for desperate measures. Even if you have to risk everything on a single Hail Mary play. Even if you have to compromise the principles that got you here. After all, newspapers and network news are doomed anyway -- all that counts is keeping them on life support until you can retire.
And then the opportunity presents itself -- an attractive young candidate whose politics likely matches yours. . . offers the prospect of a transformed Washington with the power to fix everything that has gone wrong . . . With luck, this monolithic, single-party government will crush the alternative media via a revived fairness doctrine, re-invigorate unions by getting rid of secret votes, and just maybe be beholden to people like you in the traditional media for getting it there [emphasis added].
Like I said, here.
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