What a pleasure to watch the sustained and repeated mediagasms over the past few days. Imagine how bad it could have been if the media really went over the top,
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s inauguration generated an unprecedented 35,000 stories in the world’s major newspapers, television and radio broadcasts over the past day — about 35 times more than the last presidential swearing-in — a monitoring group said on Wednesday.
Is that all? It felt like more.
Immediately after the election in November there was a spate of handwringing from the MSM about the campaign coverage. Most notably, Time Magazine political editor Mark Halperin said,
It was extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage.
Rob, my producer at WRKO coined this sudden post election honesty “born again journalism”. His point, now that the election was over, journalists would start to take their jobs seriously again, or at least consider it.
Personally, I think Halperin should talk about this with Time Magazine’s Washington bureau chief Jay Carney. Oh, wait a minute. That won’t be possible because Carney has left journalism to become Joe Biden’s press secretary. Never mind. (What does that job require anyway besides issuing apologies and retractions?)
Speaking of Biden, another spouse of a Democrat is spilling the beans and embarrassing their husband on Oprah. George Stephanopoulos’ wife Ali Wentworth is the latest,
We watched everything and George was still doing all the anchoring for ABC and as soon Beyonce said “At Last…” George called me at home and he went, “Honey?” and I said “I know!” and we both started crying.
Somewhere Stephy was saying “Shhhhhhhhhhhhh” at the top of his tiny little lungs. MSM big shots and Democrat operatives are like two peas in a pod. Jay Carney went in one direction (journo to operative) while Stephy went the other (operative to journo). Let me know when Karl Rove is offered to host a network Sunday morning interview show would you please….thanks.
Need a specific example of how the media works to advance their friends? From Bryon York at NRO,
In 2001, during the confirmation of John Ashcroft to be attorney general, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee forced a one-week delay in the committee’s vote on Ashcroft, saying there had not been enough time to answer all the questions about the nomination. On January 24, 2001, the Washington Post reported the story under the following headline:
Vote On Ashcroft Is Delayed A Week; Democrats Cite Need for More Review
Yesterday, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee did precisely the same thing for the nomination of Eric Holder to be attorney general. Today, the Washington Post is reporting the story under the following headline:
Republicans Obstruct Holder’s Path to Justice Department
That’s called nuance my friends.
At some point during the next four years, an issue will arise that requires the media to dig into the actions of the Obama administration. When that time comes, most of them will be asking the famous Ray Donovan line,
Where do I go to get my reputation back?
Good luck with that.