and the Heritage Foundation. It was on all the Sunday morning talk shows. I was shocked a quite disheartened that even Face The Nation pushed these talking points on the entire panel with NO balance on that panel. I thought FTN was one of the more respectable Sunday morning punditry shows. I guess not.
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Sent this message to Media Matters:
To Whom It May Concern,
I was shocked a quite dismayed by the Sunday morning punditry programs this morning. I must admit that I haven't been a regular viewer since President Obama's historic election in 2008. Why, you ask? Well, the answer is simple. I believe that the mainstream media is very much colored by a pro-corporate, conservative bias.
The Sunday after Obama's win and the Democrats' overwhelming victory, you may remember that nearly all of the Sunday morning commentary programs were dominated--not by the Democrats who should have been basking in their hard won, hard fought victories, no! All of those shows were dominated by losing or lame duck Republicans. Those Republicans were asked, not how they would work with the newly elected black president or the Democratic majority and actually govern, no! Instead, these Republicans were asked how they would repair their party and regain their majority in two years. That week and every week thereafter I stopped watching, though I had never been a true believer in those programs, especially since these so-called journalists had never taken the Bush administration or the Republicans to task for anything they had done, then or now.
Anyway, fast forward to today and the talk of nearly all the morning shows was whether or not Barack Obama--our duly elected president--embattled by second-term blues and an "abysmal" personal and professional job approval rating, is attempting to distract Americans with this amazing nuclear deal with Iran. So, I watched. And I watched in horror. And I watched with sadness. And I watched with absolute anger! One by one, nearly every single participant on nearly every single discussion panel agreed that somehow John Kerry had engineered a deal--in collusion with the Iranians, to be sure--to help his discouraged president overcome his horrible job approval numbers, because of course now Americans not only disapprove of Obama on the job front, we apparently distrust the president because of a dysfunctional website.
So, I decided to do some research: on Drudge, on Fox News, on Mediate, on conservative outlets. But not only on those outlets. I checked out CNN as well. And even on MSNBC. All the cable networks. All the leading stories. All of them. The talking point was the same: President Obama is attempting to distract from his poor approval ratings with the Iran nuclear deal.
I'd like to see Media Matters report more on how not only the conservative media has been covering this story, but how the mainstream media, in general, has covered it.
Thank you so much for all the amazing work that you do in the name of journalistic integrity.
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