Media Lowlights Of 2009

Watch the decline? heh! via Danny Glover. Filed under sad but true.

There were so many media lowlights that it's a challenge to pick the best of the worst for a year-end recap, but here goes:

"Teabaggers" everywhere! The mainstream media's abysmal coverage of the "tea party" movement wins the award for media bias of the year hands down.

The movement started with a small protest against the pork-laden stimulus in Seattle on Presidents Day in February but quickly snowballed into a nationwide phenomenon that is still going strong. Journalists diligently suppressed the story for weeks, but when the movement grew despite the attempt to kill it with lack of publicity, the media coverage turned ugly. The most unprofessional, unethical and utterly embarrassing moments included:

Comments

[Evil Red Scandi]

Oh, thaaaaaat Danny Glover. I was seriously perplexed there for a moment.

[david r]

Did you catch Rachel Maddow's dishonest schtick when she read a short excerpt from the Congressional Record to try to show McCain a hypocrite over Al Franken's cutoff of Libermann? She tried to show that McCain had cut off a Democrat, but the whole exchange ended with McCain giving the Democrat some of his debate minutes so his colleague on the other side of the isle could finish his remarks. It was the same kind of tactic you see them using against Palin. She should go to work for Tass or Pravda if her gig ever ends at MSNBBC.