July 10th 2008
Media Bias #15
Media Bias 2008 will cover pro-Obama media bias all the way up to the election. Items are listed from most recent to oldest; the numbering reflects this and is not a ranking. Send Media Bias 2008 examples via “comments”‘ below, or to email2laer [@] yahoo [dot] com.
15: Thou Shalt Not Write ‘Wright’
“Obama Addresses His Faith” promised the WaPo headline in the carefully chosen July 6 edition – the Sunday of the 4th of July weekend, when there was time aplenty for leisurely newspaper reading. And what a read this was! It was Obama presented as no threat to a Christian America, a man of faith who apparently would single-handedly bring back the ‘What Would Jesus Do?’ bracelet.
He suggested that he would apply the lessons of his faith to the problems he would face if he became president. “The challenges we face today — war and poverty, joblessness and homelessness, violent streets and crumbling schools — are not simply technical problems in search of a 10-point plan,” he said. “They are moral problems, rooted in both societal indifference and individual callousness, in the imperfections of man. And so the values we believe in — empathy and justice and responsibility to ourselves and our neighbors — these cannot only be expressed in our churches and our synagogues, but in our policies and in our laws.”
But wait! Nowhere in the 20 paragraphs, nowhere in the 1,157 words appeared these two words: Jeremiah Wright. In considering an in-depth story on Obama’s religious roots and faith journey that doesn’t mention the virulent racist who preached to Obama for 20 years, two other words come to mind: Media bias.
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