The Universal Whipping Boy

More on Stalin's favorite whipping boys, the media. Just to recap, Stalin feels there's a "bias" in the media against the right, but when he talks about it, it often sounds suspiciously like "conspiracy." But my man steadfastly denies that he really thinks its a conspiracy. To him its not a conspiracy, only "conspiracy like." I dunno, you figure it out. My point is that that "the media" is a business, and puts out what sells copy, or generates viewers. I also maintain, and here's where SM always, and I mean always, gives me a "spit take," that both the left and the right feel that the media supports the other side. The way I figure it in the end is that "the media" is an easy scape-goat for both. It can't report all the stories that everyone thinks is important, and when you think something is important, and its not getting press, well then clearly "the media" is against you. The proof is that they're ignoring crisis x, just to help the left/right. "The media pandered to the Bush administration in the lead up to the war, didn't ask any hard questions, and now they don't cover all the lies to hide their own cowardice," or "The media only reports the bad news coming out of Iraq." Pick your flavor.

An example of "right" bias in the media is this latest dust-up with Rumsfeld and the CIA heckler. The CIA guy asked Rummy why he lied about knowing where weapons of mass distruction are, Rummy says he never said that. Only, he did. Now, you have the Secretary of Defense caught in a bald face, and public, lie about an increasingly unpopular war. You would think that this would be getting some attention from the "MSM," but its just not. Daily Show, of all things, covered it, but everyone else either ignored it, or just covered the act of heckling.

I guarantee that Malone can come up with lots-o-examples of other issues that helped the left. And that's my point.