Good Onya, Michael

Journalistic ethics aren't a lost cause quite yet:

Media's Presidential Bias and Decline

By Michael S. Malone

Oct. 24, 2008

"The traditional media are playing a very, very dangerous game -- with their readers, with the Constitution and with their own fates.

The sheer bias in the print and television coverage of this election campaign is not just bewildering, but appalling. And over the last few months I've found myself slowly moving from shaking my head at the obvious one-sided reporting, to actually shouting at the screen of my television and my laptop computer.

But worst of all, for the last couple weeks, I've begun -- for the first time in my adult life -- to be embarrassed to admit what I do for a living. A few days ago, when asked by a new acquaintance what I did for a living, I replied that I was "a writer," because I couldn't bring myself to admit to a stranger that I'm a journalist."

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As my Aussie friend would say: "Good Onya, Michael", for having the courage and the honesty to write it like it is.