Advertising an "exclusive" with John McCain and Joe Lieberman is like hyping a sale at WalMart. Both happen every week. Those 2 are on all the time pushing one side of the aisle's point of view - bottomless pit of money for war, nothing available for health care, don't reform Wall St. How about asking Alan Grayson to appear on your show to provide counterpoint rather than simply playing stenographer to their dangerous narrative?It's no wonder that there are so many Americans out there who think the Republicans actually represent a viable solution to governing the country. They're allowed to push their bullshit rhetoric on us continually without fact checking through programming on the major networks like State of the Union on CNN. Is stenography now a substitute for journalism? It's become dangerous to the future of this country because people hear these views so often, they start to believe them even when facts (pesky little things) disprove them. I wonder if these television media members feel any responsibility to truth or are they simply caught up in being faux celebrities who get to mingle with the powerful of this country. Of course, there's no money in speaking truth to power.
Related Example: George Stephanopoulos allows Rudy Giuliani to say "no domestic attacks under Bush" without comment on Good Morning America. Giuliani tries to clarify later in the day on CNN, but still gets it wrong.
