It's not always in how they cover it
Media bias is not always in how newspapers or the major TV networks cover an issue. Sometimes it is the choice whether or not to cover a story in the first place.
The latest case in point is Rep. Tim Mahoney (D-Fla.). Mahoney replaced disgraced GOP congressman Mark Foley who had sent inappropriate text messages to some male congressional pages. It now turns out that Mahoney, who ran on a very pro-family, moralistic campaign was cheating on his wife with at least two women. Add to that bit of hypocrisy the revelation that Mahoney had paid more than $100,000 in hush money to one ex-mistress and it sounds like a case that would interest the national media.
"On the ABC, CBS, and NBC morning and evening news programs, from the story’s emergence on Friday night, September 29, through Wednesday morning, October 11, the Big Three networks have aired 152 stories." On October 11's Good Morning America, news anchor Christopher Cuomo spoke insistently: "Less than a month before the elections and the Mark Foley scandal just keeps growing." Reporter Jake Tapper added: "This is the scandal that will not go away."
But what about a scandal that will not be acknowledged? Even when a network breaks the story? On October 13, ABC reporter Brian Ross broke the news on his Blotter blog that Rep. Tim Mahoney, the Democrat who replaced Mark Foley in the House, who ran on returning morality to Congress, "agreed to a $121,000 payment to a former mistress who worked on his staff and was threatening to sue him." The FBI is now investigating. ABC has audio of him yelling at the mistress (with profanities) that she's fired. Mahoney didn’t resign. He’s running for reelection.
Number of ABC stories on the morning and evening newscasts? Zero.
Number of CBS stories? Zero.
Number of NBC stories? Zero.
Follow the link for the 2006 reporting complete with Mahoney's moralizing.
Is it any wonder people are tuning the mainstream media out?
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How can Mark Foley, a politician with the morals of an alley cat, be replaced with the likes of another, Tim Mahoney? Why no CBS or NBC stories on these happenings? Why let these two sleazeballs off the hook? You heard very little about their morals in the media, but if that were Sarah Palin commenting on her faith, the media and those left-wing, socialist, illuminati extremists would be all over her. You shameful jerks!