Me, my love hate (more hate than love) relationship with the media is that the media is in bed with the politicians and to some extent the government. There is no objective reporting anymore, what I mean by that is there is more personal opinion than objective opinion. What is sad is that it pins people of different opinions against each other. Ex: Republican vs. Democrat.

Take the government for instance; during the first term of Bush Jr. and the supposed war on terrorism. All the reporting was basically coming out of the Whitehouse, whatever the Whitehouse said they reported it without investigating it first, without holding the Whitehouse accountable i.e. Asking the hard questions.

Then came the push for war in Iraq, come to find out back in late 2007 and the beginning of this year those Generals, Colonels, and so on (called Pentagon Pundits) were planted in the media to sell, promote, get the public to say it should be done to go to war. But because it was election year the story was headlines for a day or two and then squashed. CNN, Fox and MSNBC were the biggest culprits of them all. I remember when the President gave the OK for the troops to be dispatched to the Iraq. MSNBC had a bulletin board made so people could send family and friends pictures in to post on that board. What I find strange is that they don’t do it anymore, and it stopped about the time when they realize that the intelligence was wrong!

Now that we had to elect a new president, it seems that the war on Terrorism has been put on the back burner and that the security of this country no longer matters. The new Democratic nominee/president has a shady past, but does the media go and crawl all over his hometown looking for the dirt, asking the hard questions…no they don’t, they give him a free pass. But they waste no time on the VP on the Republican side, the moment that McCain announced Palin as VP they couldn’t get to Alaska fast enough to get some dirt on her. Then proceeded to vilify her through out the whole process.

When they realize that “they” made a mistake they fall all over themselves and don’t learn from it. They just go on and keep repeating the same mistake.

If Bush Jr. had an affair they would be all over it like fly’s to honey, thinking they are doing a good thing. But the important issues who wants to hear that, tabloid news that is what Fox, CNN, and MSNBC is!