Take a look:
The first clip is from NBC's Today Show, the second is George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America, and the third clip is from Morning Joe on MSNBC and these are what Hannity is using as evidence of the "mainstream media" picking up talking points and attacking a political candidate. However, if you break these three clips down, Hannity's arguement starts to decay. The main problem with these clips is that they are really just clips of whole stories. For people that don't watch the other channels or missed interviews of O'Donnell, there is no way to realize that she isn't completely being attacked in the way Hannity suggests. And before you even look them up, the clips themselves speak to the same thing. The first clip from The Today Show seems to simply be reporting what Democrats have said about Christine O'Donnell and not the media attacking her. The second clip of George Stephanopoulos is really just a reporter wanting to know what O'Donnell herself thought about what Carl Rove said about her. I do not see in either of these clips a candidate being attacked....only responsible reporting and answers being sought out.
**Watch the GMA interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpZ5JZD0Y_Y
I couldn't find the exact clip from Morning Joe that Hannity used, however I did find another clip of Morning Joe where the hosts and contributors are discussing O'Donnell.
While this clip does present some negative discussion of O'Donnell's character by Joe Scarborough and the other hosts of "Morning Joe", it is not an unfair discussion. Also, Pat Buchanan also provides a different perspective which makes the overall discussion less one-sided.
My overall point is that the only one that seems to be mudslinging is Sean Hannity and he uses against people that are merely providing different point of view or seeking responses to legitimate questions. I fully accept that there are vicious attacks against Christine O'Donnell and that there can be bias in media, but Sean Hannity only bothered to show that ones that prove his own bias.
you see this kind of stuff on all news channels. they will play a clip where the person will say something along the lines of "im hitler". if you watch the whole thing though it actually says "im tierd of people thinking im hitler". for those people who do their research news casers that pull this lose credit, however, most dont check. so the majority of the blind masses now think this guy wants to be hitler lol
ReplyDeleteYeah I agree with you and the comment above. Obviously, the media channels are geared towards their own political sympathies. They will skew the story to go along with their goals or whatever proves their point. I wish that they would just give me things the way they are, but in politics that is impossible:(
ReplyDeleteI think if someone says something crazy or has personal issues by it isn't attacking them by covering them. The media covered Alvin Greene for his weird win but now he has said or done anything else crazy so they have not covered him. O'Donnell just keeps on getting herself in trouble with outlandish stuff and that is why it keeps getting covered.
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