{"id":294,"date":"2008-09-27T22:38:12","date_gmt":"2008-09-28T05:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/27\/pretending-objectivity-we-arent-fooled\/"},"modified":"2008-09-27T22:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-28T05:39:00","slug":"pretending-objectivity-we-arent-fooled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/27\/pretending-objectivity-we-arent-fooled\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretending objectivity: we aren’t fooled"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this, uh, objective piece of journalism, Mark Halperin grades the candidates’ performances in the debate.<\/a> Obama, A-; McCain, B-.<\/p>\n

There is, of course, no mention of any of Halperin’s previous political perspectives and stances. He is pretending to be the objective journalist here. Google him, or read the wikipedia article on him<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When will the media stop presenting mere left leaning opinion as objective journalism? Answer: probably never.<\/p>\n

When will the public learn to just ignore them? Answer: they already are learning to do just that. Not as fast as we might like… but it’s happening, as every left-leaning newspaper knows,\u00a0 from its circulation numbers.<\/p>\n

It’s laughably sad when all you have to know about someone is that they work for ABC and Time, and that’s all you need to know about their likely perspectives.<\/p>\n

It is so undisguised here.\u00a0 There isn’t even an attempt to be “objective”, nor is there any mention of the political perspective of the writer (Olympian that he is), and no center-right analyst is given the opportunity to provide balance.<\/p>\n

It’s just an Obama campaign commercial masquerading as news.<\/p>\n

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