Media officially running for Obama

The New York Times reported on thursday that Linda Douglass, former network correspondent and "journalist" for such major news networks as ABC and CBS, as well as contributer to the National Journal, has announced that she is leaving the "news" to join the Obama campaign. This has reveiced alot of well deserved criticism from many Republicans as well as Deomcrat supporters of hillary Rodham Clinton who have noted on the medias suspected bias towards Barack Hussien Obama in the election coverage so far. In this election, many have accused the Media of being liberally bias, a label which has plagued the media for decades.

Many in the media have been accused of injecting their own bias into the news, and in some cases, flat out lying for the sake of propaganda. such instances include the white house's recent struggle with NBC News over the way they edited an interview withe President Bush in a way that they had cut out parts of his answers to controversial questions involvong Iran. Also, in 2004, when some accused CBS News and anchorman Dan Rather of trying to influence a presidential election by runnig a story about newly discovered documents that questioned George W. Bush's National Guard Service. These documents were never authenticated, or fact checked, and soon found to be forgeries. Other examples include when Newsweek, now being criticized for pro-Obama reporting, found the story of the Lewinski-Clinton scandal, but did not break it until after others did. Even the Pope John Newspaper was accused by some to be Obama leaning. These stories relate back to the WaterGate scandal of the 1970's and president Nixon's beliefs that the media was out to get him from the start.