Media bias re: Kerry-Bush coverage

Even taking into consideration all the concentrated ownership of the media and inbuilt corporate self-interest, when it comes to the pro-Bush and anti-Kerry media bias, let us keep one very salient fact in mind.

It is my educated guess that most news anchors and regular commentators (from Carlson to Hannity to Blitzer to Woodruff et al) on network and cable news shows make upward of $200,000 per year.

George Bush gave each of them a twenty-five to fifty thousand dollar yearly raise with his tax cuts.

Kerry has said if elected he will take twenty-five to fifty thousand dollars a year away from them.

Be honest with yourself. If a presidential candidate were saying he would take that much money away from you each year would there not be at least a hint of unconscious bias in your reporting on the campaign?

I would like to see it mandatory that whenever any anchor or commentator or pundit appears on what is billed as a news show that there be a continuous screen identification showing how much money they stand to lose in tax breaks if Bush is defeated.

Full disclosure in the interest of fair and balanced reporting. You know, like Fox.

Gordon25

Its more a function of how corporatized (read: greedy) the media is. It's all about the buck rather than the dissemination of actual information.

producers of TV "News" programs and editors of newspapers an equal amount. Thats a not a lot of money to get the message they need.

it's lazy. They allow Rove et al. to drive the news because Rove et al. does all the work. And the end of the day, all they have to do is ask a few questions based on some new "scandal" and poof people watch, ratings rise, and reporters look like they are covering "news".

Also, I suspect most in the media really want to appear balanced, so when they are constantly attacked for being "too liberal", they begin to overcompensate.

That's my opinion of why we see Bush attacked less.

...will pay that much more, because Bush's tax cuts did not provide that much to these wage earners. They got an average of $100 tax cut per week or $5,200 altogether. Now if they were making twice that or tens times or 100 times that (upper 5% of wage earners), then the story would be different. That is the level of earnings their bosses (CEO's and VP's of the media) are making.

Here is a tax calculator link that might help to see where each of us stands to gain or loss tax wise. Remember also that the rich can always find ways to avoid taxes that the vast majority of working Americans never can take advantage of.

http://www.paycheckcity.com/cotaxcut/netpaycalculator.asp

...we'd be fishing the likes of Kudlow and Blankley and others out of the Hudson by 6:00 tonight.