Somebody once said the first 100 days of the presidency can be regarded as the President’s honeymoon, which I took that to mean with the media journalists in our country; well stating it simply “I don’t see that happening with our newly elected President.” Furthermore, when our President took office less than a month ago, negative journalism for the most part began.
Perhaps “negative” is a bit to strong and not the exactly the correct definition, perhaps the recently created word of “spin” is more befitting of what I see coming over the airways, which includes the online news services and television.
Whatever, my feelings are when I view the RSS banner headlines I subscribe to, from what I consider two leading sources of political news, and they’re casting our newly developing administration and the presidency in a negative light with over half of their articles devoted to day after day of negativeness then I feel absolutely justified in labeling them “negative.”
One provider is the Time Warner organization, which includes CNN and Time, while the other is Politico, which I often quote in my blogs when I find there “factual” reporting available. I desire news coverage which lets me decide my opinion on the story being covered, not the commentator’s or the author’s mostly slighted opinion.
As an example, I believe in President Obama’s Economic Stimulus package, but if I followed the supposedly good advice from everything I read from the two aforementioned agencies I’d have to write my congressional representatives and request their “no” votes on the package.
Typically from Politico I receive between thirty to forty articles a day in two different downloads, an AM group and a PM group. Here are a few of the article’s I consider negative from today’s PM group:
Gibbs… pretty in pink? from Politico by Patrick Gavin
Press conference sparks media debate from Politico by Michael Calderone
Republicans find a groove from Politico by Jeremy Lott
Bipartisanship is not always good from Politico by Julian E. Zelizer
These are not necessarily the best examples, I have, of just one subscription download, for one time, during one day, but they do I feel serve the purpose of this posting. I’ll let the readers of this blog to be the judge, but please don’t think I’m thin skinned; Edward R, Murrow had it correctly in a commentary he made in the early 50’s when he spoke of the impact television could have on the listening public. Here is a quote from Mr. Murrow and his view on television ” “This instrument [television] can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire, but it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box.” – RTNDA Convention Speech, October 15 1958.”
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