Un-Liberaled Woman

I almost have to laugh thinking back on all the classes I took on ethics and journalism (and public relations as well). Seriously, it’s like Joey Gladstone:  Cut. IT. OUUUUUT.

Friends of mine over at Facebook have been bringing up some interesting evidence in regards to how apparent the media cares about the “pertinent” news affecting Americans (you know, those people who are THEIR AUDIENCE!). Via The Wall Street Journal (emphasis mine):

An Associated Press dispatch, written by Erica Werner and Richard Alonso-Zaldivar, compares the House and Senate ObamaCare bills. We’d like to compare this dispatch to the AP’s dispatch earlier this week “fact checking” Sarah Palin’s new book. Here goes:

Number of AP reporters assigned to story:
• ObamaCare bills: 2
• Palin book: 11

Number of pages in document being covered:
• ObamaCare bills: 4,064
• Palin book: 432

Number of pages per AP reporter:
• ObamaCare bill: 2,032
• Palin book: 39.3

On a per-page basis, that is, the AP devoted 52 times as much manpower to the memoir of a former Republican officeholder as to a piece of legislation that will cost trillions of dollars and an untold number of lives. That’s what they call accountability journalism.

People are screaming left and right for more details about this massive healthcare boondoggle, and THIS is what the media is reporting on.

Gee, way to go there, Norah, with your hard hitting journalism. I love how the guy at the end of the clip also takes time bring O’Donnell’s own misinterpretation to light.  O’Donnell vetted a tween who probably cares as much as Edward Cullen as she does Sarah Palin’s new book, but when it comes to exposing federally-funded organizations promoting illegal sex-trade rings she suddenly turns investigative reporting into “entrapment.” Yeah, goooo, Norah, goooooo! You’re only a few million steps from that “well-deserved” Peabody.

And yet liberals are flabbergasted like a DJ “Oh Mylanta” Tanner when you talk about the obvious liberal bias (or bias in general) in the media.