If you had the unfortunate experience of watching network news broadcasts earlier this month (Nov. 17th, 18th or so), you will remember the news-readers (aka anchors) scrambling to cover as much of Sen. Murtha's anti-war, anti-Bush comments as they could. Nearly every network led with the story, describing Murtha as a patriot, a Vietnam war hero, and a long-standing expert on military policy in congress. The "reporters" hung on his every word, editorializing about the shockwave this would send through the U.S. and wondering how the Bush administration could go on with such strong criticisms from such an honorable, qualified source.

If you haven't picked up the theme here, they presented the story through their strongly liberal, anti-Bush bias. Rather than reporting just the story, they felt compelled to spin it even further toward the left. Even the selection of this as a leading story, and the amount of time devoted to it shows this.

But, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they report every story this way. What if a John McCain or Chuck Hagel got up and said the war was going well, that our troops were accomplishing the mission they were sent to accomplish, and that the world is a better place because of the heroicism of the U.S. military? Such a story would warrant equal air time and attention, right?
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