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Originally Posted by sjh
You're sure not going to get me to defend Fox or virtually any other media. To suggest to any of these folks that their job is objectivity would fall on deaf ears.
I question if the total amount of biased-derisive content from the media directed towards Obama approaches the level Bush experienced in his later years.
Bush was given the benefit of the doubt, to some extent, after 9-11 but was pumelled as time passed.
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They are doing the job objectively, just not the job you think they are supposed to do. You believe they have to report the facts and nothing but the facts. Their job is to "sell newspapers". Remember how they got everyone wound up with the "record profit" buzzword? Same thing. Everybody knows the phrase and a few even know the number but NOBODY that I asked knew how much was spent to make that "record profit". If they knew it was 10% profit, it wouldn't be as sexy a story, now would it? One of the articles I read about that on page 1 had the phrase, amount of profit and a "continued on page 10". Finally, they mentioned what the XOM spent to make that profit.
I somehow think that it has increased over the years because of each group trying to top the other. So if this is level 5, you can bet a level 6 insult will come later either on this President or the next. Not sure exactly when but it will come.
That is the job he and any President signed up for. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.