Self described “Democrat”, Orson Scott Card, doesn’t think the media is doing their job. He thinks they are biased in favor of Democrats and against Republicans. Here’s a link to a recent “column” he wrote defending this viewpoint, giving numerous examples of how the liberal media ignores Democratic scandals while promoting scurrilous stories about Republicans. One in particular caught my eye:
Barack Obama is just another politician, and not a very wise one. He has revealed his ignorance and naivete time after time — and you have swept it under the rug, treated it as nothing.
Meanwhile, you have participated in the borking of Sarah Palin, reporting savage attacks on her for the pregnancy of her unmarried daughter — while you ignored the story of John Edwards’s own adultery for many months.
Hmmm. Something about that didn’t seem right. I don’t remember the Bristol Palin story getting near the play in the media that the Edwards’ adultery story did. So I checked the Google (News category) and here is what I found:
For the search “john edwards affair” there are 1,370 entries.
For the “Bristol Palin pregnancy” search there were only 782 entries.
In other words, there was significantly more coverage of John Edwards’ adulterous affair once it came to light than Sarah Palin’s unwed daughter’s pregnancy, even though Edwards was no longer a candidate for any office at the time the affair was discovered, whereas Sarah Palin, Bristol’s mom, was a candidate to be one heartbeat away from the Presidency. Somehow that doesn’t seem to me like a the media went overboard in attacking Sarah Palin and letting John Edwards off the hook. But then I prefer objective quantifiable facts regarding the news coverage the media actually provides various stories, whereas you just seem to find your facts from deep within that place where Karl Rove’s turdblossoms originate.
Damn, Orson. Maybe you should use the Google (or any other search engine of your choice) to verify your “factual claims” once in a while, rather than just repeating Republican talking points, ad nauseam. Just sayin . . .