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Make the Media Shut Up, Now!

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I’m not a fan of Hillary Clinton. I’m not all that fond of Barack Obama, either. John McCain doesn’t offend me, but he was never my first choice. I actually long for the days when the Reform Party had a national candidate.

Despite what I think about one presidential candidate or another, one fact remains the same. I am sick to the point of blood shooting out of my eyes about how Big Media is handling their reporting of the primaries. Reporters should report. News should be objective. Still most articles that come across the wire masquerading as hard news contain opinion statements suggesting that Clinton should have dripped out of the race by now and that Obama is the winner.

Mathematically, as anyone won yet? No. West Virginia and Kentucky are sure to go to Clinton and all the media can focus on is which candidate has how many “superdelegate” votes. Let’s not even start on how undemocratic the entire notion of a superdelagate is. What in the world happened to true representation in the voting process?

Democrats: get it together and stop showing the world just how divided you are. Media foghorns: shut up. Just. Shut. Up. Go home and dig out your old journalism textbooks. Study up a little on objectivity and factual presentation. It would do us all some good. As much as I dislike Clinton, I actually feel a little sorry for her right now.

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