Media bias isn’t just about how the MSM covers the news. It is often found in what they choose to cover. If a story doesn’t fit their agenda, they blow right past it or relegate it to the back pages. The Dick ‘The Turbin’ Durbin Analaogy kerfuffle comes to mind. That was almost exclusively a blog story for a week until finally, after much pressure, the MSM picked up on it. More recently, this week in fact, new developments in the hunt for Saddam’s WMD’s have been largely ignored by the MSM.
This is another textbook example, the disgraceful performances at Coretta Scott King’s pep rally, er, funeral.
King-Sized Mistake
By Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz
Much of the MSM missed the boat.
Too many wrote predictable leads about the Coretta Scott King funeral, all but ignoring, or at least burying, the Bush-bashing that was going on. Whether you think it was appropriate or galling for Jimmy Carter and Rev. Joseph Lowery to use a funeral to take partisan shots at a president who was sitting behind them, this was news.
Kurtz provides a good round up of blogger reaction and does a little compare and contrast with that of the AP, Washington Post, New York Times and the rest of the usual suspects. The good news is, the MSM ability to determine what is and is not news has been shattered. They are the gatekeepers no longer. People will learn about this disgraceful performance, just not from them. And in doing so, people will learn a little more about the MSM, their priorities and agendas. Good night, and good luck to them!