against an increasingly openly hostile media?
Via Ace of Spades, via Jeff Goldstein, we have this:
Looks like MSNBC correspondent David Shuster may have deprived loyal MSNBC viewers of their favorite GOP talking heads — at least for now.
This week, the MSNBC reporter “sandbagged” Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) during an interview by asking her to name the last solider from her district to die in Iraq. After she couldn’t, Shuster named the solider himself and then scolded the Tennessee Republican for her hypocrisy.
But it turns out that the soldier Shuster named — Pvt. Jeremy S. Bohannon — was not from Blackburn’s district after all. The incident landed Shuster in some GOP hot water, and the newsman was forced to make an on-air apology for the incident last night.
But that might not be the end of it, as irked Republican Hillers are now planning a boycott of Shuster’s employer.
“We don’t mind skipping MSNBC. No one watches that channel anyway,” says a high-placed Republican consultant.
If this happens, it's about time. I for one have gotten rather tired of the coastal and big-city media continually trying to put over the illusion of objectivity when there's evidence in spades that they're biased so far to the left that they might as well all be the public-relations arm of the Democratic Party. As if that wasn't bad enough, they actually bash the blogs for being biased as if it were actually a bad thing! Maybe it is and maybe it isn't, but the thing about the blogs is at least they have the integrity to admit that bias up front. I know well that the media is supposed to be a watchdog over the government, but when they willingly become lapdogs of one side or start selectively reporting the facts in order to push an agenda, then that role gets to be undermined. Yet still they proclaim to be fair and objective. Do they really think Americans are that dense? The answer would seem to be "yes." I've seen evidence here and there that circulation, ratings and revenues are all going down to varying extents, which could very well be taken as an indicator that Americans are on to what the coastal media thinks of them. It'll be interesting to see what the effect of the GOP blackball of MSNBC will be.
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