Is the U.S. media beginning to get a spine?

[ginnyinWI]

It seems that they are getting more bold at criticizing bushco. NBC news carried a clip of Kerry's floor speech yesterday to go along with predictions of what * was going to say. ABC also carried a clip of Kerry.
On CNN, Larry King Show subhost Costas was very good at interviewing Kerry and McCain, asking very good questions designed to expose the shrub. He put Kerry on before McCain, too. Kerry was confident; McCain looked peeved.

These people read polls and know where there bread and butter is coming from.

I'd like to hear from others who have evidence for or against the idea that TV news is no longer so pandering. Is the media waking up? Or was this just a blip?

[havocmom]

1. Still corporate owned and under orders but in danger of being totally

disregarded as whores and/or idiots, perhaps they are just trying to look somewhat credible?

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. time will tell

but I am spoiled Malloy fan... so until they start using similar language with the bush crime family.... I mean Nightline, some said it was blistering, more like ahem tepid

[melissinha]

4. Spoiled Malloy fan..

I love that label. Its so refreshing to hear real unedited, unscripted truths anout BushCo. Man I loved the rundown Malloy gave last night.. similar to the one I did when I heard it on NPR... which had swear words.

[Imagevision]

3. The people will cause networks to do investigative reporting until then

they remain spineless!!

[samsingh]

5. they are merely becoming bias in favor of the repugs

before they were propoganda whores.

i think they're going to try and return to that position though.

[meganmonkey]

6. They're just swaying with the mood of the country

Which is still better than what they were doing before, evin if for the wrong reasons!

[kwolf68]

7. prolly an end-run

Make the BoyKing ook damaged...play real Journalist for a few weeks and then ratchet up the Pro-Dimson PR Machine and send out the BoyKing under the auspices of "proven winner when the chips were down and everyone hated him."

it's a con-job. I don't trust the ding-a-ling media for anything.

[lachattefolle]

8. I think they are, BUT WHY couldn't they have been fair and balanced

BEFORE the election?:grr: