CNN’s Praetorian Guard

posted at 9:00 pm on October 5, 2009 by

You have got to be kidding me.

When I was a journalism major in college, I read and re-read “All the President’s Men.” To me, it reinforced the ideal purpose of journalism – keeping public officials accountable to the people. Unfortunately, today’s media seems to believe they are the (Democrat) President’s men.

When was the last time you saw CNN fact-checking an anti-Republican SNL skit? What’s sad to me is not the bias, but the fact that they increasingly don’t even seem interested in hiding it anymore.

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They have far to much invested in Obama to let him go down,even at his own hands.

Aggie95 on October 5, 2009 at 9:13 PM

Love the photoshop.

I don’t think most of them really see it as bias. Remember when Christiane Amanpour made a full throated defense of advocacy journalism? And Linda Ellerbee did too, I believe. It’s not bias to select the ham sandwich over the $hit sandwich, it’s just obvious common sense. I think that’s really how they see it; when you don’t consider the opposite side as having any valid arguments, there’s nothing to be evenhanded about.

Laura on October 6, 2009 at 12:54 AM

Great Blitzer ‘shop there! The lame-stream media running away from real stories to cover O’s a**!

ProfShade on October 6, 2009 at 9:35 AM

These people really don’t get it at all. I’m sure CNN thought they were helping Obama out. Instead, he introduced the skit to a whole group of people who would never have known a thing about it. And they makes themselves look like an Obama shills at the same time. Clueless.

DamnCat on October 6, 2009 at 9:59 AM