Unprofessional and likely quite biased

Those who read this blog through email probably don’t know that each post has a category tag. When reading the blog through the website the tag allows a person to find recent posts on the same topic. One of those tags is “media” and most of those posts are about how the mainstream media has been hurting Democrats and helping the GOP and the nasty guy. The blog sidebar says since I’ve started writing this blog (almost 12 years ago) there are 54 posts with the “media” tag (this one is 55). In just the last year the media has done some nasty things.

Eric Boehlert of the Daily Kos community reminds us of some of that media malfeasance in presidential elections. There was 600 consecutive days of stories about the phony Hillary Clinton email “scandal.” There was the “Swift Boat” smear campaign against John Kerry based on lies. The story stayed in the press for weeks. Al Gore was also smeared, this time directly by the GOP. All three lost extremely close races.

Now Democrats are speaking up about media coverage that is at least unprofessional (such as repeating proven lies) and likely quite biased against them. Alas, the Dems are playing catch up because the GOP has for many years complained about “liberal media bias,” which has spooked journalists. But those same journalists tend to ignore criticism by Dems.

Joe Biden is leading the charge of malfeasance because he’s the current big target. Biden wrote a letter to the editor of the *New York Times* complaining that the paper was spreading the debunked conspiracy at the core of the nasty guy’s scandal in Ukraine.

Also calling the media to task are Bernie Sanders and Beto O’Rourke. There will likely be others.