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Originally Posted by Workshop_Willy
You have to decide whether a story about a blogger is as important as a story about Dan Rather. If you decide that it is, then you are correct to draw a comparison here, but you are jumping the tracks a bit. The difference here is that Dan Rather himself, the epitome of mainstream media, played fast and loose with the facts, producing forged documents as "proof" of malfeasance. It was not a sin of omission, it was a sin of commission. Therefore, as a mainstream media icon, he did in fact exhibit bias and instability in the face of a potentially explosive scoop about a conservative politician. There are many stories that the mainstream media ignores simply because there's no perceived value in reporting them.
By the way, Dan does indeed have a history of rancorous intercourse with the Bush family (do you remember when he tried to blindside Bush 41 only to get his head handed to him on a platter during the 1988 campaign?). He also has a history of emotional instability and rashness on the air. I can provide examples, but I'm sure you already know what they are.
The bottom line is, you are drawing an unequal comparison between two things which really are not the same.
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I'm not arguing that Dan Rather doesn't have a liberal bias. I'm not arguing the this blogger is a more important journalist than Rather. I'm also not using either of these two incidents alone as proof of bias. What I'm saying is, the way each of these stories has been covered in the rest of the media, proves the bias.
Certainly this story is WAY more important than "Rathergate", for many reasons. First of all it involves the White House giving unprecedented access to a non journalist, who's paid by the GOP to ask scripted questions at televised press conferences. That in itself would be a story if the entire mainstream media wasn't protecting this White House. Secondly, this non journalist gets access to classified documents revealing the name of an active, undercover CIA agent. On top of that, for a media that reported about a blow job 24/7, the guy turns out to be a gay military hooker.
Did anyone see Leslie Blitzer's interview with this "Jeff Gannon". Jesus, it was such a softball interview, you would have thought Leslie was interviewing the President himself.
To reiterate, the fact that the mainstream media is providing relatively little attention to this story should prove in everyone's mind that the mainstream US media is, at best not liberal, at worst a mouthpiece for the current administration.
If this exact same thing had happened with a reporter coving Kerry's campaign who had written hatchet jobs about the President, it would have been the biggest story of the year. You know it, I know it, even old Pathfinder knows it.