Jonathan's Blog Mail Bag!

After a great day of showing my dad around Fort Wayne (we really did have a great time, more about it in the next post I promise!), I checked my email and discovered that I had the following comment about my post on the media and the left. So, welcome to the first edition of Jonathan's Blog Mail Bag.

Kristi writes:

I have to laugh because YOU work for the freakin' media...yes radio is considered media. You put a nice "spin" for the "right-wingers" but it still fails to sway me to the dark side... There is a reason my father calls me the "The Democratic Brat" and I am a bleeding-heart Democrat and proud of it. I'll leave it at that and have a good night.

Luv
Kristi :-)

If this is my friend Kristi from Detroit, I thought we had a deal not to discuss politics LOL. But if it's not you, it's still all good. At least you weren't nasty to me about it!

But you're right, radio is considered a branch of the media. But when I spoke of the media in the last post, I was talking about the news media, of which I have no interest in for the afore mentioned reasons. I don't think that you can deny that CNN, et al. lean very much to the left in their reporting about politics and world affairs. Ted Turner has made it no secret that he's very much for the Left and, to me, it's pretty obvious that he uses the influance that CNN and the other networks have to try and sway the public. If you call yourself a news channel, you should be impartial except during shows which are obviously commentary.

That said, I don't necessarially agree with everything Fox News does. Yes, I do agree with most of their views but, as in the case of CNN, I don't think they should lean one way or the other in reporting of news items except during shows that are obviously commentary. There is a difference between reporting and commentary. Unfortunately, both networks (and the news media in general) try to combine the two and you just can't do that and remain impartial.

What would I like to see? A news channel that does just that, reports the news. They can have shows, each leaning left or right, that give commentary about politics and world affairs. I would also like to see the broadcast news media (ABC, CBS, et al.) report the news and give commentary only where and when possible (not during the course of reporting on the story though). Will this ever happen? Probably not. But a guy can dream.

So that's my take. Feel free to agree or disagree. Good or bad, I love getting comments about what I write so keep them coming. You never know: I might just use your email in a future edition of Jonathan's Blog Mail Bag!

--Jonathan