I don't know that I buy the media being biased so much as much as maybe there is just TOO much time to fill and they are too interested in ratings. In days of yore, you had the nightly news, and it was exactly that, News, international, national, local, weather and sports. Nothing else!! Now, for every story, there have to be 4 spinoff talk shows on CNN, FOX, etc..., where they bring in "experts" to debate AD NAUSEUM every detail!!!! So, if you cull out actual news from any one of these networks, you end up with about 23 1/2 hours of debate, editorial, advertisement, human interest, etc..., and 30 minutes (if you're lucky) of actual news being reported (without the rehashing!). A good case in point is the recent Spitzer nonsense. Now the Lt. Gov. has admitted that he and his wife each had affairs SEVERAL years ago, and almost every one of the networks is trying desperately to spin this into Spitzer-The Sequel, even though it's not remotely the same (from what little I've seen of it) But my point is, they do this to almost every story. This weekend CNN ran through the top stories, among them 17 tornados that hit South Carolina, so I sat there for 20 minutes waiting for them to come back to that. Instead, they centered on 3 stories about Spitzer, and never went back to the South Carolina story so I could see where it was (and if it was near where I used to live) Then (not that I was watching!), I'm quite sure the rest of the day was centered around Spitzermania (at least until Britney comes back).
