by Dennis Copson

Created on: October 29, 2008

The Scourge of Media Bias in This Presidential Election Cycle

At no time in our history has there been a more biased media than in this current election cycle. It was obvious from the very start of campaigning when the mainstream talking heads enthusiastically ordained Hillary Clinton as the next President way back when - before she fell from grace and was replaced by a newer, more liberal media darling, Barack Obama.

The reasons for this are to be found in the very nature of a majority of these pontificators' ideology a strong tendency to the left, the far left in many cases. While there were many right wing press representatives as culpable, inarguably the preponderance of today's media persons are liberal minded to the extreme as revealed in surveys of their voting patterns as well as closely monitoring their reporting.

Media bias toward the Democrats and their nominee became clear and obvious by early spring, 2008. Blatantly so in many cases. Instead of observers of the political process, as is their responsibility and function in a democracy, they errantly became participants participants with a clear choice of candidates as they cast their vote early and often for Barack Obama.

Their obvious disdain for anyone or anything Republican was evident from day one of this campaign season. They dislike President Bush with a fervor seldom witnessed and they were not at all abashed to say so in no uncertain terms. The vileness of this dislike - verging on hatred by some - determined their current positions as they searched for an alternative any alternative to the Republicans, both Presidential and Congressional candidates, and landed squarely on the side of the Democrats where they felt welcomed and at home, cuddled by their own established and comforting liberalism.

The mainstream press has overwhelmingly lacked objectivity in assessing the two candidates and at times so gleefully and so unprofessionally as to be distracting developed a love-fest relationship with Barack Obama. Such overt and frequent on-air statements as "we will make history in this election" were common in cable news reporting - code words' for their blatant support of the first black Presidential nominee.

Their discussions of the conventions and debates, as well as perceived and press accentuated gaffs by the McCain-Palin pair, were so exceedingly biased towards Democrats that one could not avoid becoming concerned with the lack of any truly fair assessment of the election process in their coverage.

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