An Objective Media? Not a chance.

Webster’s Dictionary has a definition of the term “objective” as this: expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations.

The news media of today needs to learn to use that resource. Based on Webster’s definition we do not have an objective media. Since the days that brought us the term “yellow journalism”, publishers have played fast and loose with the truth simply to further their own personal agendas. An example of this was William Randolph Hearst’s response to illustrator Frederic Remington's request to return from a Havana that was quiet, "Please remain. You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war."

Bill O’Reilly writes that around 80% of the media is nonobjective. I disagree. Bill is only looking at the left side of the equation. The figure is much closer to 100%. The amount of objective reporting is so minute that it isn’t worth considering. Most of it is reserved to the comics page.

In the upcoming Vice Presidential debate, the Democrats would not even consider allowing a moderator with a history of fairness. The Republicans insisting on someone outside of the liberal media as moderator would have made the debate a non-starter. If they had said Fox News or nothing, we would have seen the end of presidential debates for the foreseeable future.

I find the lefties version of fairness sadly lacking in the equality quotient. To them, an 80-20 split is somehow grossly weighed over to the 20% side. The right has Fox. The left has CBS, NBC, MSNBC, TNT, ABC, etc., nearly all the radio networks and over 80% of the newspapers. Yet somehow the right has an unfair advantage. True equality, to them, is discrimination. To the left, the ability to answer their arguments with one of your own is not fair.

There is no truly objective reporting any more. I witnessed that first hand as a Nevada Assemblyman. Ed Vogel, a reporter with the Las Vegas Review Journal, teamed up with the Treasurer of the GOP in Nevada to phony up an ethics charge against me. If this had been done outside of a political campaign, those individual would have been guilty of a crime...but we are talking about the media here. Molly Ball, a reporter for the Review Journal and Jon Ralston, a columnist for The Sun, both have drunken driving citations on their records and both have gone after representatives for assumed misjudgment. The “pot calling the kettle” squared. Reporters with no experience whatsoever in public education regularly trash teachers in these rags, while at the same time they are earning easily twice the salary of those people they lambaste…while working half the hours.

Moving to the national stage, we have seen article after article about how dangerous Sarah Palin is, while not one paper writing that has brought up Obama’s connection to Acorn and Clinton’s executive order beginning the process that melted down our economy. Not one of those papers has brought to mind Biden’s plagiarism. In Obama and Biden’s cases, those items are public record; everything they have against Palin is supposition at best. The elite hate conservatism. The elite media hate conservatism with a depth of loathing that surpasses what the Islamists feel about Israel, and they will do what they can, short of violence, to destroy it utterly.