Monday, November 12, 2012

What liberal Media Bias?

From Newsbusters: As part of the victory lap on CBS's Face the Nation Sunday, host Bob Schieffer asked Obama campaign manager David Axelrod how it felt to watch the president brush away a tear in front of the volunteers. "We don't see that much emotion from the President. What was it like to be there?"
He also asked Axelrod what he'll do next, and he said he wants to help "inspire some young people to get into this arena as candidates, as strategists, as journalists." Or to follow today's media model, become a Democratic strategist, and then become a network TV journalist. But Axelrod brushed away tears alongside the president at the idealism of the Obama Youth:
DAVID AXELROD: Oh, my. I was standing ten feet away and I was brushing tears away myself as were many of those young people. And so when he looked at those young kids and their sense of idealism and all the sacrifices they had made, not just for him but for the kind of country that they believe in, he really was overcome. And the President went around after that speech and he-- and he met with every single kid in the headquarters, gave them a hug and a handshake and a thanks and I think that hug and handshake and thanks has sent them off in a direction where they're going to make great contributions in the future, and it really was a wonderful coda on a-- on a great campaign.
BOB SCHIEFFER: And what about you? What do you do next?

AXELROD: Well, I'm going down-- in keeping with that-- I'm going to spend part of my time starting an institute of politics at the University of Chicago. My feeling is if I can help inspire some young people to get into this arena as candidates, as strategists, as journalists, then that would be a great contribution to make.
Candiates.  No problem.  Strategists.  Great.   Journalists?  WTF?
Axelrod just said he wants to help create liberal journalists, who are supposed to be neutral.
But as we have seen countless times, many journalists are not neutral but tend to liberal advocates.  We have seen this in this elections and most elections in the past.
So, good luck with you endeavors but please stay away from journalism school, though you probably would be treated as a god.

1 comment:

  1. The biggest things I noticed on the Sunday shows (I watched Meet the Press and FOX "News" Sunday), was that the election could've been weeks ago by all the attention it got. We got Petreaus with both barrels, and some off-hand, very slight future talk about Obama's 2nd term. No deconstruction of what happened, no talk of what went right on one side, wrong on the other. No talk of the utter failure of Karl Rove, and all the right-wing pundits. I was very disappointed!

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