Letters to the Editor
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Paul:
You wrote...
Was it during WWI, when they went along with the total censorship of anti-war views? Or the post-WWI Red Scare, which the media was instrumental in promoting, and which vanished almost overnight when it vanished from the pages of the papers?
Was it during the Great Depression, when the Literary Digest predicted FDR's defeat in the 1936 elections? (They were right, he lost--Maine and Vermont.) Was it during the McCarthy Era, when they printed McCarthy's wild accusations, and never asked to see the "list of names" he waved above his head, which later turned out to have been a blank sheet of paper?
Was it during the Civil Rights Movement, when a picture of Martin Luther King, Jr. never made the New York Times front page? Was it any time since second wave feminism first appeared, when feminism has been repeatedly reported dead every four or five years or so? Was it during the 15-year long "global warming debate" when not one peer reviewed article was published on the "skeptics" side of the debate?
When, exacly, was this period of liberal media bias, when the majority of American papers have endorsed the Republican presidential candidate in every election since the Great Depression, except for 1964?
Thank you for this. If you don't mind I'm going to cut and paste that onto my frontal lobe (too many brain references today) and use it regularly.
Because you didn't go for the obvious, you know the pantie sniffing, the blue dress, the dead Foster, the ten year investigation that found nothing, the frenzy into Iraq, ignoring Abramoff, and and and etc. etc. ad infinitum.