Monday, November 03, 2008

The Scariest thing about This Election

We all know there is media bias - it has been very evident this election season. I suppose it's something that we've come to expect. It has been tolerable as long as one of the branches of government was led by Republicans. In that regard it can be justified as a necessary "check and balance." My concern is that if all three branches are controlled by Democrats and the media is also left-leaning - the system is set up for corruption. Not because the left is any more corrupt than the right - but if the balance of power is already tilted one way and then the the media jumps on that side of the scale too - it makes for an interesting scenario. Check out this study of this year's election coverage.

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3 comments:

Dave said...

Darn that Fox News network...so obviously tilted towards the right.

oh wait...

Larry Shallenberger said...

I'm not denying media bias. But I would say that McCain's campaign made it very easy for the alleged bias to manifest itself.

sojourn said...

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
-Lord Acton

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
-Lord Acton