Posted by
The Hermit Crab on Monday, May 23, 2011 10:38:25 PM
Anyone who thinks that Fox News and Andrew Breitbart have slain mainstream media bias has a lot to learn, and in upstate New York's 26th House district, they have less than 24 hours to learn it. Of course, the preceding is an overstatement, but it is not an overstatement to state that the major media has responded to the challenge of Fox News and watchdog organizations like the Media Research Center and Accuracy in Media by finding more subtle ways to help their side. Now their seemingly slickest trick is to bottle up news that they don't want their audience to know. I have seen them use this trick occasionally over the years, but it seems to have become one of the media's first resorts these days.
We have an excellent example of the "new" technique happening in the highly-publicized race for the vacant NY-26 House race.
Jack Davis, crotchety old perpetual candidate and hard-left protectionist liberal (yes, it's possible), bought his way onto the ballot after the Democrat leaders refused to select four-time loser Davis to run for the vacant seat. The perpetual candidate, a man so dim that he thinks that American companies "off-shoring" jobs began the recession that we remain mired in, took advantage of a peculiar New York law that allows the successful petition-submitter to name the line they've attained, named his line the "Tea Party". (Gee, I thought that brand was past its "sell-by" date.) Now, Davis is radical left, favors using tax dollars to fund abortions throughout all nine months of pregnancy, and is about as representative of Tea Party principles as Louise Slaughter. Nonetheless, the not-very-attentive voters in this Republican-majority district, or too many of them, anyway, fell for the sour-faced trickster's new scam.
Unsurprisingly, the true Tea Partiers of the state and the country were not pleased with this development, and the Tea Party Express came to upstate New York to set the record straight on Mad Jack's true record and beliefs. They told the people in a press conference that the Tea Party has only one candidate in the race, and that is true-blue conservative Republican nominee Jane Corwin. They tried to, anyway.
The local media refused to cover it. The local Gannett paper, The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle didn't cover it. The major television network affiliates (WROC, WHEC, and WHAM) wouldn't cover it, either. The only reason I found out about it was because local conservative radio host Bill Nojay mentioned it (and its cover-up) on his show.
You see, the media likes the fact that bogus Tea Partier Davis is drawing confused voters away from Republican Corwin. This confusion aids the (official) Democrat candidate, Erie County Clerk and hard-leftist Kathy Hochul. Therefore, rather than promoting truth and helping the voters to make an informed choice (the MSM's deadliest fear), they will willingly help sow confusion and prevent the truth from being known.
There are words for this. "Journalism" is not one of them.