About twenty years ago I heard for the first time someone say, "The news isn't news, it's just regulated opinion." I observed that firsthand last night.
I watched KNBC news at 11 to see how they would cover the Tea Party protest in Washington DC earlier that day. The lead story was the one year anniversary of the crash of Metrolink 111 that killed 25 and injured 134. It was a tragic local story. There was a sinkhole in Studio City. A woman got married in a hospital room so her very ill father could be present. There is a missing Yale graduate student since Tuesday that was supposed to get married today. There were eight other news stories. Then came the weather report. Then sports--USC came back to beat Ohio State on its final drive lead by true freshman Matt Barkley. Other sports scores. Then the newscast is over.
Not one mention of the Tea Party in Washington DC. Although estimates of tens of thousands to two million showed up to protest runaway BIG GOVERNMENT, KNBC news couldn't be bothered to report about it. As far as KNBC was concerned, nothing happened in DC yesterday. NBC and their parent company, GE,
are so in President Obama's back pocket, they can examine his colon. Instead of just showing the whackiest people who are protesting as they usually do, this time they report nothing. If they didn't report it, it must not have happened. Whether they show conservatives in a bad light or no light at all, NBC shows its media bias.
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