More articles today on the last two years.
Thomas Sowell from Townhall.com writes more about what Obama and McCain were doing the last two years related to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in particular. What strikes me is that Bush, Allen Greenspan, and others in Bush's administration warned that Freddie and Fannie needed more regulation. While Republicans are known to be for deregulation, this is a time they supported it more regulation, and yet the Democrats now claim the opposite. And Obama himself has benefited handsomely from Fannie Mae's contributions. Why isn't this covered by mainstream media - even if just to show their was no impropriety?
"Facts don't matter much politically if they are not reported." ~ Sowell, Townhall.com 10/03/2008
Self censurship is one step toward government sanctioned censorship.
Orson Scott Card also wants his fellow reporters to step up to the plate and do good reporting work - whether it supports their favorite candidate or not.
"Is getting people to vote for Barack Obama so important that you will throw away everything that journalism is supposed to stand for?" ~ Card, http://www.ldsmag.com/ideas/081017light.html, 10/21/2008
I cannot grasp why the news is so slow when so many historic things are taking place. Friends and family have remarked to me that they've never heard so much talk in public places about politics. And yet news outlets and journalists have such a slow day, they have to report on Palin's wardrobe. And let's see the figures for Obama and McCain to be fair - since we have nothing else to talk about.
May history uncover and write about the things that have thus far been ignored.
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Well one of my friends said something to me a while back... If the media is talking about Britney Spears... chances are, a genocide or military coup is occuring in a second or third world country... a crisis that you will not hear about in the American media. It wasn't until I started reading newspapers around the world from the UK and Middle East that I realized just how biased the coverage of the American media is.
You said it, pastor dave. reading some other media outlets has definitely given me a new perspective and (i hope) helps me to always be questioning and curious. To know the issues and concerns of today's election (but many important world issues you mentioned), we have to do more than just reading the local paper.
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