Biased Reporting

One of the most frustrating things about this campaign is having to go to a fact checker website to find out if the rumors being reported on the news are true. For example - Palin’s $150,000 wardrobe. Who knows whether this number is accurate or not, but as Palin said, “It’s kind of painful to be criticized for something when all the facts are not out there and are not reported.” Another example is Governor Schwarzenegger’s interview with Campbell Brown. CNN has since come out with the full cut because the governor’s response had been misrepresented through shortened portions of the response. (http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/23/campbell.brown.schwarzenegger/index.html)
This kind of publicity only skews people’s view of the candidates and the presidential race. It’s too bad the media reports things before they’ve got all the facts. Yes, this is their job; and thankfully the major networks have come out with programs such as CNN’s “Fact Check.” (http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/category/fact-check/) But sadly, not only is it the media misrepresenting certain facts about the campaigns, the candidates are as well. I don’t even listen to many of the “facts” the candidates throw out in the debates and in some of their speeches and ads because it seems like whenever someone verifies the so-called facts, they categorize them as “misleading.” What would this race be like without 24/7 media surveillance? Maybe Biden wouldn’t have been accused of telling the American people that if they vote for Obama a crisis will be inevitable.