Thursday, September 11, 2008

CNN’s John King Self-Criticizes Media’s ‘Language’ About GOP

During the two minutes between Roland Martin and Jeffrey Toobin’s two attacks on Sarah Palin after her speech at the Republican convention on Wednesday night, veteran journalist Carl Bernstein's assessment, and offered some constructive criticism of the difference in coverage between the two conventions:

"...[L]anguage matters in what we do, and I don't necessarily disagree with the point of what Carl was saying -- but we do speak a different language when we talk about this party [GOP], and I think that's why we're often criticized.

To say the Right is running the Republican campaign -- if that means these people are the Right, then Carl's exactly right. But we didn't say, during the Democratic convention that all those delegates down on the floor were on the Left..."

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[I've noticed more and more on-air questioning of the MSM's bias from its own - I think the smarter journos are admitting which way the public wind is blowing re: the historic bias and positioning themselves for the future...]

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