The Media’s Undoing

The Roar

Used to be, before this “age of information,” the American voter would decide without undo media influence.  Although the selection of candidates were above the periphery of public input, there still existed conventions where surprises lurked.  This uncertainty was most notable with the Goldwater and Reagan nominations.

Back in those days, the media still had a heavy input into the general elections but it was after the fact of the nominations.  Still, they didn’t miss a beat, as was the Goldwater example, when they scared the voters towards their more peace loving LBJ preference.

Today, the voter is presented with a parade of “debates” which is nothing more than a media circus designed to whittle down the candidates to the one they have already anointed.  It’s a process which entails either inciting arguments between the hopefuls, trying to get them to misspeak or flub an answer or overload the questions onto the most inexperienced of that particular field.

As with the most recent Perry flub, not being able to come up with his third cabinet department, which he deemed in need of abolishing, it followed that this one instance disqualified him as a worth while candidate.  All the while, the media’s unmistakeable soft Romney approach suggests that his selection is their priority.

Now, as embarrassing as are the spoken gaffes, once again the media takes a vacation when it comes to Obama’s misspeaks.  And there are sadly too many to replay.  Again, protection of their chosen ones.

As previously detailed, the despicable treatment allotted to Cain, has produced an overdue negative public response with regards to the media’s blatant bias.  This repulsion now seeps into that former granite like hold on public opinion which Rather, Cronkite and Jennings relished.

This didn’t happen overnight.  One remnant from Obama’s 2008 election was the public’s perception that his success was due in part from his preferential media treatment.  This impression is hardly debatable given the questioning of McCain’s qualification to be President, due to his birth outside of our Country verses the complete pass given to Obama.

Another lesson learned was the manner in which the media continued their anti-Palin attack during the post election years.  In short, there are ample examples that serve and strengthen this growing distrust for media authority.  The recent boos directed to the moderator’s revisiting of the Cain controversy provides ample proof to a hand which the media over played.

For as long a I can recall, it’s always been referred to as “the liberal media.”  Their bias could be found from day to day and it was largely accepted to a degree.  However, that slant for interpreting has since morphed into witch hunts which at times, employs varying degrees of calumny.  It is this tactic which has caused their disfavor and rightly so.  If running for our Presidency includes unsubstantiated questioning to one’s reputation, well then, our Republic will truly become that fearful entity known as a democracy.

Jim Bowman, Author of,
This Roar of Ours