It struck me as absurd that this conservative-biased pajama TV reporter is talking about media bias. Pot kettle?
There is nothing wrong with bias. In fact media should be biased, because that's part of reporting the truth.
The problem with the mainstream media is not that they are biased but that they claim not to be. If you lie and claim to be neutral and you are a journalist, you are scum. That's it. And this description now matches most of the mainstream media and almost all journalists.
The days of honest and good journalism in the mainstream media are basically over. When newspapers still competed and didn't just buy stories from the big few press agencies (or worse, print whatever propaganda piece they can get their hands on) I suppose they could still be trusted. But today I find that there are few people less well informed on a subject than journalists pretending to cover it.
I don't consider Pajamas Media a neutral news source, quite in contrast I consider them an extremely biased, honest news source.
Here's them:
http://pajamasmedia.com/about-us/
I have read Oman and Mohammed's blog before Pajamas Media was even founded. I have also read Glenn Reynolds (as my friend Steven Den Beste used to link to him quite often from USS Clueless back in the days).
While the mainstream media reported from expensive hotels in the Green Zone in Baghdad, Pajamas' people reported from the trenches of two dentists working in an Iraqi hospital in the same city outside the Green Zone.
When the mainstream media reported total disaster from Iraq, Pajamas' sites had articles about an Iraq that looked totally different. (And I myself trusted them and went there and found Pajamas to be right.)
When the mainstream media typed an ancient document in Microsoft Word to "prove" that George Bush was AWOL a week before elections, Pajamas reported that using a document typed in Word is not, in fact, evidence of an event that would have been recorded in the 70s.
And finally, my favourite example of journalist scum: the BBC had pictures taken by their journalists of terrorists setting up rockets (surrounded by children, of course). They did not stop them, they did not call the police, they just took pictures and interviewed the criminals. They were never helt responsible for failing to report an ongoing crime. They are apparently above the law.
Mainstream media journalists are generally scum. And if I am wrong about this, just point me to a place where I can read that most journalists did denounce the actions of the few bad apples who stood by taking pictures while terrorists murdered innocent children. Or just tell me when the mainstream media apologised for lying about Israel hitting a UN school in Gaza, or when they apologised for making up a massacre in Jenin.
