Calling Out The Bullshit

Ok, so if you're a reporter, your job is to "report". Now, there are literally millions of examples of bias in the news. Some slant left, others right. But generally your job is to report what happened, not why, or who's to blame, or any of that nonsense.

Regardless, reporters are real people with real political opinions. If you give money to a particular organization, then it should be know so people can make a judgment on your fairness in certain news stories.

No one who comes to this site thinks that it's another Daily Kos or some other liberal website. It's out there, in black and white, what this site's about. However, I do enjoy a bit of hypocracy, so here's a bit that you can nibble on:

One newspaper has dropped the syndicated column "The Ethicist" by New York Times writer Randy Cohen because of his donation to MoveOn.org, which he said he had thought of as "nonpartisan."

Ok, so who here actually believes that line of bullshit? On the FRONT PAGE of moveon.org's website you can plainly see that they are a liberal website. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it, that's their business. However, when Randy Cohen says that he thought his donation to moveon.org was "nonpartisan", he's either lying, or he's the biggest moron on the planet. Either way, it's not exactly the kind of guy you want writing for "The Ethicist" in the New York Times.

It's called "conflict of interest" for a reason. If I were working for a particular political figure and I didn't report that I was, everything I said about that person or their views would be subject to more scrutiny then usual. Am I saying these things because I believe them or am I saying them because I have a vested interest in the outcome?

Travis
travis@rightwinglunatic.com