So, is the media biased? Well, duh, but here are today's headlines from the websites. I chose the ones that are in regards to the Presidential election and how the parties fared in the House and Senate. You decide.
CNN
"We've Got More Work to Do"
Democrats Keep Control of Senate
GOP to Retain its Grip on the House
Fox
Four More Years
Congress Divided: GOP Wins House but Dems Fend Off Senate Challenges
NBC
Victorious Obama: "Best is Yet to Come"
Dems Keep Senate
GOP Hangs on to House
CBS
Four More Years
House Projected to Remain With Republicans
Senate to Stay With Democrats
ABC
Obama Wins
Dems Hold Senate Majority
GOP Keeps Control of House
I have to admit, that most of these headlines are pretty good and unbiased. I am not going to read all the stories to determine if the content itself is unbiased, but they did a pretty good job with the headlines. Of course, it isn't hard to say "SO AND SO WINS!", but nonetheless. Even regarding the House and Senate outcomes, most of the headlines are pretty generic. However, I do have to take umbrage with two. CNN said "GOP to Retain its grip". Retain its grip? That sounds as if having a divided Congress is somehow a bad thing (I don't think it is) and that somehow the GOP are either digging in their heels or holding on for dear life. Either characterization is a biased one, so this headline didn't work for me. Also, Fox said "Dems Fend Off". Well, this suggests that the Senate races were somehow much closer than they were. In fact, a more appropriate headline would be that GOP shoots selves in foot in many Senate races. So, I have to chalk this one up to the biased category as well.
Based on the headlines alone, the media seems to have announced the results in a pretty unbiased fashion. However, I will also point out the coverage. I watched several stations, but not all of them. Fox News seemed even keeled the whole night, like they were just there to report until the shoe finally dropped. Other news entities seemed to me that they were sitting on eggshells, like they couldn't wait to jump out of their seats to tell us how things were going to turn out. I admit that this is a subjective opinion on my part and that I didn't watch every single news station, but I knew the outcome of the election at 7 p.m. when I turned on the television solely based on the attitude of the media I was watching. That's a pretty sad commentary on the media bias evident in the coverage.
At any rate, the country voted for four more years of the same...a divided Congress and a President that will continue to ignore Congress. So be it...Congress will continue to do nothing and the President will continue to unconstitutionally legislate by executive order and regulations...that's what we've been doing for four years and last night results say that's what Americans want us to continue to do.
