{"id":5554,"date":"2011-08-07T01:47:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T08:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5554"},"modified":"2011-08-07T01:47:26","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T08:47:26","slug":"kerry-protests-faux-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/07\/kerry-protests-faux-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry Protests Faux Equality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imagine, if you will, how the great Walter Cronkite might have responded, had been asked to do a report in which he gave birthers the same credence as sane people, or if he were asked to present second Amendment solutions<\/em> as a feasible alternative.  I think Cronkite would have walked away before doing such stories, but journalists then understood something that journalists today do not.  The fourth estate is responsible to truthfully inform the public.  The notion that all ideas, no matter how absurd, are created equal has become the clarion call of modern day broadcast media, but only when the absurd ideas come from the right.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"7Kerry\"Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) thinks the media made a big mistake by devoting equal time to every "absurd notion" during the debt ceiling debate<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

"And I have to tell you, I say this to you politely," Kerry told MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Friday. "The media in America has a bigger responsibility than it\u2019s exercising today. The media has got to begin to not give equal time or equal balance to an absolutely absurd notion just because somebody asserts it or simply because somebody says something which everybody knows is not factual."<\/p>\n

"It doesn\u2019t deserve the same credit as a legitimate idea about what you do. And the problem is everything is put into this tit-for-tat equal battle and America is losing any sense of what\u2019s real, of who\u2019s accountable, of who is not accountable, of who\u2019s real, who isn\u2019t, who\u2019s serious, who isn\u2019t?<\/strong>"\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Kerry is absolutely right, but he did not address the problem of bias.  During the run up to the Iraq War, Bush and his cabal of war criminals were plastering America with lies about nuclear, chemical and biological WMDs.  At the time I opposed it, because the evidence was plainly available that Bush\u2019s claims were questionable at best, as did many with far more expertise than I could ever hope to have.  those experts got no coverage.  Media bias shut the truthful people out of the debate.  Left leaning wing-nut conspiracy theories were ignored completely throughout the Bush regime.  The media attempt to muddy the truth through faux equality is only in play during Democratic administrations.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Imagine, if you will, how the great Walter Cronkite might have responded, had been asked to do a report in which he gave birthers the same credence as sane people, or if he were asked to present second Amendment solutions as a feasible alternative.  I think Cronkite would have walked away before doing such stories, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}