Saturday, November 24, 2012

Obama & the media: in bed together?

What ho in Bangkok?  Is there an Obama curse? He played the PM and the King like a bold romancer and what happened?
 
 Threats of a coup, exposure of more corruption; same old Thailand we know and love.
 
Then Hillary moves into Cairo and glorifies Mohamud Morsi to the hilt. He then turns around and declares himself the new pharo.
 
What happened to freedom in the press in the USA? Time was when our national newspapers reported the facts and left opinions to the editorial page. We knew their political leanings, but they did not color the reporting, or at least we believe they didn't. Unlike the UK and Europe, American newspapers were not identified with political parties or ideologies.
 
Today, Fox News is manifestly right wing. OK, no problem with that as they are consistent although their motto is 'fair and balanced'.
 
The other national news sources are not as blatantly left in their reporting as they are in what they fail to report. Seldom, does the non-Fox  media criticize Obama. One might think there is an accord between the network news agencies, the national papers and the White House to be kind to O.
 
Indeed, some go to extremes in idolizing him and his administration. This is a new phenomenon for American journalism that I have yet to fully understand. What motivates them to be so delinquent in exposing his antics?

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