Post election news media revelations

I don't see it as much as coincidental as the usual media behavior, anymore. I have given up on listening to the media-- I read the headlines, then hit the government websites and other open information sources for the whole story. All media is biased, and it's a problem that should be addressed-- but it is also a problem we have had since this country started. If you read extant copies of newspapers going back to the beginning, there was always bias-- heck, Thomas Jefferson paid a reporter to write a story about John Adams, alleging he was a hermaphrodite, and a pedophile. And the Jackson/Quincy Adams election in 1828 was considered the dirtiest election ever (though the latest one may eclipse that)--Jackson called Quincy Adams a panderer and a pimp, among other things, and the media ate it all up. And of course it is standard operating procedure that republican candidates and presidents get excoriated, vilified,slandered and persecuted far more frequently than democrats, and that Israel and the Jews always get shafted as well. we have given the press complete freedom-- but we did not put a system in place to enforce the responsibility for full disclosure that should have been implemented at the same time. In an ideal world, the news would be just that-- straight facts, with full citations to back them up-- and bias would be limited to editorials. But sadly, the people don't LIKE facts, don't demand them, and when they get them-- oh, boy. Bad for ratings-- ALL the media is biased, and all the media has abandoned facts. It's up to us to find the facts for ourselves, and inform others-- because the beginning of slavery is control of information--and an ignorant population that can't think for itself.

In the early days fo our country you have very partisan news papers. Over the years the press tried to portray themselves as being reporters of the facts. 0ne only hast to look at the Viet Nam and the press reporting that the Tet Offence was a loss for the US. Many people felt the Offence was a US operation. In fact it was the North Viet Nam that went on the Offence and lost every battle and did not acheive any of their objectives. In the past few years it has been learned that the North was on the verge of ending the war EXCEPT the US media declared the Offensive as a total defeat for the US. Four years ago we learned that the New York Times refused to allow a reporter to publish a story that could have been a game changer in the election. Tom Brokow reported on the eve of the election that the media had not vetted President Obama and went on to say that we have elected a person president that we know nothing about. The newspapers and media of today is still very patrician, which is fine, except they are trying to pass themselves off as non bias reporters.

And what the media doesn't control...the white house does. Look how perfectly they covered up the Bengahazi attack for 6 weeks prior to the election...now all of a sudden this and that is being "unconvered" and found out. And they will be blaming it on Patreaus and that will be that. Regardless of the fact that the main inputs in the administration knew all about it either before it happened...they just kept it under wraps until after the election.. And yeah, Hostess filed in January...and it was the Union that caused the closing of it...and not a mention of the 18,500 jobs lost....You bet the media tells us what they want us to know and only when they want us to know it. And it all depends on who they are "campaigning" for!

Too many things "all of a sudden" occurred just after the election. I think the media was told to hold off on them until afterwards. I wish we could have a factual news report! Well - it's not that they are not factual - just they they use the facts to skew the public's view of the story. Their intent is to get the public to see things a certain way and that means concealing some facts and revealing the ones pertinent to their case.

I would like to agree that the media has direct and great influences on how facts are reported because it is really happening. I think, the media concerning Israel is not fare...It is my own opinion based observable facts.

I remember this episode from the series '24', a reporter was talking with the president's wife about the incident that the son's president has got in to, and that the reporter will blow it to the media. The wife was scared of course because his husband is in the middle of campaign running for president. So what she did is gave the reporter another issue of something else to clean up the name of their family till the election is finished. Could this also what happened in reality?