CBS does not call themselves "fair and balanced" either. And if you'll watch their newscasts, they're far more balanced than Fox. When they do fact checks on the candidates, they nail Kerry in the same story that they nail Bush in.
The CBS letter problem was more of a "this is a really big story and we gotta get it out before the other networks do" than a "let's crucify Bush."
After all, he's done plenty of other stuff they could crucify him on, and they haven't. I've only seen a couple of journalists, none from CBS, go after Bush with a string of really tough questions. If anything, journalists are dropping the ball by NOT nailing Bush as often as they should. The President should have to answer to his decisions, and Bush is not being made to answer to his.
I also feel I must point out that when Clinton was being roasted in the media almost nightly during his presidency, I didn't hear anyone whining about the conservative media bias.
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You may well think you are unbiased in your reporting and maybe you are, but its pretty obvious that a great many don't follow this ideal.
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I never said all of us follow that ideal. I think most do, or at least they try to.
My point in starting this thread was to dispel the myth that all journalists are flaming liberals who are foaming at the mouth for any opportunity to bash conservatives, and who skew their stories routinely in order to do it. That's simply not the case.
Plus I'm tired of the media getting bashed when it looks into Bush's actions. Some people out there are acting like the media is wrong to question the president. In fact, one of the most (if not THE most) important jobs the media has is to hold the powerful accountable. A press that fails to question the country's leadership has failed in its duty to be the watchdog of the government.
We cannot know if the government is doing things that are not in our best interest if no one is there to catch the government doing them.