(h/t to Phelps.)
First there was CBS’s Bernie Goldberg. Then Dr. Bob Arnot of NBC. Now ABC’s Michael Malone:
The sheer bias in the print and television coverage of this election campaign is not just bewildering, but appalling. And over the last few months I’ve found myself slowly moving from shaking my head at the obvious one-sided reporting, to actually shouting at the screen of my television and my laptop computer.
But worst of all, for the last couple weeks, I’ve begun — for the first time in my adult life — to be embarrassed to admit what I do for a living. A few days ago, when asked by a new acquaintance what I did for a living, I replied that I was “a writer,” because I couldn’t bring myself to admit to a stranger that I’m a journalist.
Read the whole thing.
Of course the commenters are accusing Malone of being a Republican.
Still, the one thing I noted in Malone’s piece was the absence of any mention of the same bias shown by the media in 2004. Oh, not to the same degree, certainly, but there was definitely a pro-Kerry media bias. In fact, I had a short exchange with Journalism Professor Ed Wasserman of Washington and Lee University about it that September. Apparently 2004 was a practice-run for 2008.