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...yes, the media did ask some tough questions...
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Do you really think that is an accurate description of the way the media covered Clinton and Gore? We could argue about it until we are blue in the face, I suppose, but how about we agree to disagree on it.
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...Since every poll of news media people I have ever read flows about 90% democrat/ liberal, I do not see how anyone could think that they were even-handed...
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So? I think it is more telling to see who pays their paycheck. NBC, for example, is owned by General Electric. Not exactly a bunch of hippy lefties.
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... The media's job is to question everything--they fail miserably...
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Especially when reporting Bush propaganda in 2001-2003. Everything W's people put out went right to the front page of the New York Times. It became so obvious that the Times basically had to admit that they dropped the ball.