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March 13, 2006
It's the little things that say so much. . .
So here I was, just minding my own business and about to call it a night when I decided to just check Drudge to see if there were any headlines just screaming for a quick read before slumber and decided to click on "Sen. Feingold Draws Little Support for Bush Censure... " (Go ahead, read the article and then come back.)
Ok, so there's not much to this article on the surface. Feingold's maneuver is a parlor trick of politics at this point, only designed to further polarize the electorate and show where he stands when it comes to running for President. ***CLUE FOR FEINGOLD --- You won't be facing Bush in '08, so you're really wasting your ammo here and only ingratiating yourself to that fringe, which worked wonders for Dean.***
But here's some things I want to point out in the article:
"The president has . . ."
". . . by Congress is . . ."
". . . when the president . . . "
". . . Congress has the . . ."
Now those on the left are going to immediately "knee-jerk" and say that I'm nitpicking, or attacking grammar instead of looking at context and substance. I'll suggest however that if, now, after I've pointed it out, if you have half-a-brain, the article takes on a whole different meaning. Notice even the extreme examples, like:
". . . George W. Bush, president of the United States . . ."
I'll suggest that the mainstream media has given up the ghost of objectivity, while they claim to have checks and balances on their content to achieve certain journalistic standards, it's the little things like this make the bias stand out so strongly. This piece has seen a number of editors along it's path to the web. It's been written, re-written, edited, checked, edited and then sent to the wire, and the issue that I'm pointing out made it through that process for a distinct reason. The groupthink or the agenda of the media put it there.
If you have no idea what I'm talking about, well, let's just say, you're not my audience then.
If you're still struggling, go back and read it again, look for things like:
". . . only president ever censured by the Senate . . . "
" Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. . . "
But of course we've got ". . . what President Clinton was . . ." instead of Bill Clinton, Former president of the United States.
The media's objectivity and journalistic integrity are merely Charades.
--Jason
P.S. - If you want commentary on the stunt mentioned in the article, I'll leave that to Dan.
Posted by JasonColeman at March 13, 2006 11:11 PM
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