Do you think the Media is delivering on there promise?

“Let’s talk a little media bias here. The media, I think, wants Kerry to win. And I think they’re going to portray Kerry and Edwards – I’m talking about the establishment media, not Fox – but they’re going to portray Kerry and Edwards as being young and dynamic and optimistic and all. There’s going to be this glow about them that some, is going to be worth, collectively, the two of them, that’s going to be worth maybe 15 points.” – Newsweek Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas on the July 10 Inside Washington.

Shortly after Evan Thomas made that statement the front of NewsWeek had a cover photo of Kerry and Edwards with a glow---they stopped just short of putting halo's arround their heads...

When Bush was originally nominated in 2000, his picture that appeared on front of newsweek was in black and white and they stopped just short of drawing horns on his head.

The media of course has not had any real discussion of Kerry's senate record, they pronounce the swift boat vets as "discredited" when they've done no investigation of the groups claims. There has been no discussion of what Kerry did after Vietnam and meeting with the VietKong, there has been no discussion of why Kerry's medals had to be reissued, no demand for Kerry to sign form 180 to release ALL his military records as they've demanded of Bush.

On the Boston Globes website several days ago they had a Kerry talking points memo (released by the kerry campaign) posted under news-stories--I sent them an e-mail complimenting them on there cost-cutting measures--why go to the bother of having a reporter rewrite a talking points memo when you can just publish it as is...saves time and money I'm sure.

So do you think the media has done there job? Do you think they've done everything they can to deliver that 15 points. Admittedly CBS has taken the lead, though Dan Rather did slip up a bit..but, oh well. Give the "journalist" credit for trying.

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