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Bad Media! Take a Timeout!
It's almost as though the McCain campaign thinks politicians are entitled to keep a leash on journalists, and not the other way around.
I don't understand how this can be spun into "bias." It was a textbook example of a disingenuous, slimy weasel dodging a question. He got called on the carpet for it, and yet somehow people come away from that thinking that the interviewer was "foisting her opinions on the public."
I guess a journalist is entitled to the opinion that truth has value, so long as that journalist remains objective and respects differing opinions about truth. If the facts heavily favor one side in a debate, fudge them until you've got a symmetrical difference of opinion. Don't make the flat earth society look stupid; don't have a story about Obama without an equal-length story about McCain right next to it; don't bully the brave souls who speak to you by asking them questions they weren't prepared for in advance. To rock the boat or hold public officials to any kind of standard is to completely compromise your journalistic integrity.
In other news, PETA fought for cops' rights by protesting at the ham factory. I saw it myself.
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