meatcleaver
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ORIGINAL: Sanity
Journalists are not messengers, nor are they supposed to be messengers. Journalists aren't meant to make the news and they aren't meant to shape the news, their purpose is to gather the news and report the news impartially.
Furthermore, a discussion of the disservice that the current crop of "journalists" are doing to their profession and to the American public through their blatant bias and dishonesty isn't shooting them, it's a means of gaining enough enlightenment that we may better navigate the murky waters of current affairs without becoming as lost children, blindly bowing before the first charismatic politician who comes along, promising candy to all who will follow.
Your first paragraph is rather naive. To report news is to alter the status quo, simply because it will cause a reaction.
However, if you have watched the campaign unfold, the media doesn't have to be biased, the McCain campaign shot itself in the foot with the naming of Sarah Palin as VP. The main point of the McCain campaign was Obama's inexperience and would he have the backbone in a crisis to do the right thing. So what does McCain do? Chooses a running mate who have no experience (Alaska is not serious experience) and who has extreme and weird views, who is clearly not bright and can only talk with coaching. So in one fell stroke McCain nullified his own campaign and handed the initiative to Obama.
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