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To: michael97123 who wrote (415336)	9/8/2008 4:40:08 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1575120

And thats my point. I am an equal opportunity cant stander. I take my politics serious even from the partisans. I always listen to what matthews has to say as i do buchanan and morning joe. Olbermann got exasperated by the success of the republican convention and the palin nomination. Its politics and though its more important than a game, it still is a game. You are totally over-simplifying this issue. I know a guy who until recently was a REAL journalist for a big newspaper. I've known this person for several years and had many discussions with him. I have no idea whether he leans left of right. My intuition is that he leans left because he is, after all, a journalist. But his professionalism is so deeply engrained that I simply do not know. This is what journalism is all about. There are numerous people on this thread who could write a good story. That's not what journalism is about. The real challenge is in doing it such that the biases aren't present. Olbermann, Matthews, Andrea Mitchell, Brokaw, none of them -- are able to do this. Even Russert, who was the best in the business, had a liberal bias that sometimes (although rarely) showed. And frankly, Stephanopolis has done far better in the last year than he did early on in hiding his liberalism (could be because he is actually growing up and turning more conservative). This is about the professionalism of these people, not merely some political game. And it is serious business, in that it threatens the entire Constitutional infrastructure of the country. When CPAs, a group in which I'm a member, were at fault in Enron, I was angered, furious, at what they had done to a profession I worked hard to become a member of. Where is the outrage amongst journalists?