Kevin G,

Did you watch the Memorial service? Because from what I've read from those who attended the entire thing, the mainstream media appeared to report on things that didn't happen and on an entirely different event.

For example, the other day on the Tim Russert show, both Al Franken and Tucker Carlson (a right winger) were talking about what Carlson reported about the service. Carlson originally reported on Crossfire that republicans trying to make eulogies were booed off the stage. Franken corrected him and said he was there and at no time did any republicans speak. Carlson then admitted he was wrong. But I read what Carlson originally reported in several other papers and heard it many times on the news and never did I hear of a retraction.

But Franken goes through the service with great detail and it seems to be wrongly reported on by others. Also, in Joe Conason's book he writes about the same event and says about the same things as Franken.

As far as media bias....Bernard Goldberg is far more biased than Franken and here's why - Franken clearly states that he is from the left and is tried of liberals getting kicked in the balls and expected to take it. Goldberg ACTS like he is fair and unbiased, when others (Eric Alterman in "What Liberal Media") points out many instances of Goldberg's bias. One of the biggest is Goldberg's bias against CBS news for professional reasons (i.e., he feels he got screwed by CBS and Dan Rather).

One thing about media bias...the Pew Research Center (an unbiased journalism research entity) did a study of the Washington Post/New York Times and Washington Times/Wall Street Journal editorials in regards to their covering of the dems and repubs. Pew found out that while the Wash Post and NY Times wrote more favorable articles about dems, they also wrote very critical reports of the dems, while at no time could they find any negative republican criticism in the Wash Times and Wall Street Journal and constand negative dem press.

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