On the recordNovember 18, 2004
most Americans now realize that Big Media, network TV news programs and the largest newspapers and news magazines, tried to determine the outcome of the Presidential election. A study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism confirms what Americans already suspected: George Bush received more than twice as much negative coverage as John Kerry. Think what President Bush's margin of victory would have been without the media bias. But the danger is the media bias will continue. That is a real threat to democracy. When the American people do not have the facts, the unvarnished truth, they cannot make the best decisions and we do not have good government. Big Media needs to reassure the American people that they will strive for objectivity and seek to restore their reputation as the protector of democracy, rather than remaining a threat to it.
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