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To: Carolyn who wrote (513)	8/30/2012 6:25:00 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 826

Yahoo Bureau Chief Fired for Biased Remark Tea Party Tribune ^ \| 2012-08-29 20:30:27 Yahoo News Washington Bureau Chief David Chalian didn't realize his mic was "hot" during a joint Internet broadcast with ABC News. "They aren't concerned at all," said Chalian looking down at the Republican National Convention while Hurricane Isaac bore down on Louisiana, "They are happy to have a party with black people drowning." Last June, Politico reporter Joe Williams became a little too comfortable during an appearance with like-minded lefties on Martin Bashir's MSNBC cable program. "Romney is very, very comfortable, it seems, with people who are like him," insisted Williams, "That's one of the reasons why he seems so stiff and awkward in some town hall settings ... But when he comes on Fox and Friends ... they're like him. They're white folks who are very much relaxed in their own company." The unguarded moments above cost both men their jobs. They were found guilty of saying out loud what most journalists only whisper amongst themselves, or liberally pepper between the lines of their skewed news copy. No one, of course, is surprised. It should come as no surprise as well that Fox News won the top ratings with total viewers for their coverage of Tuesday's Republican conclave in Tampa ... with MSNBC coming in dead last. "In the 25-54 demo [demographic age group], Fox also beat all cable and broadcast networks except for NBC," reported Mediaite. On May 22, Deadline Hollywood reported, "The only ratings news CNN is getting lately is bad news. Last week, the cable news network had its lowest-rated weekday prime-time in 20 years in terms of total viewers ... this ratings news comes less than a week after the network hit its lowest prime-time among adults 25-54 in 15 years on May 15 with Piers Morgan Tonight." And last February, the Huffington Post reported that profits at the New York Times "fell by 12.2 percent compared to the same period in 2010, and that its net loss for the whole of 2011 was $39.7 million." When the mainstream media beats its collective chest over the "public's right to know," it's a load of eye wash. Journalists don't write or broadcast with you in mind. They preen before the cameras and type their screeds to impress each other. You might even say they're "very, very comfortable, it seems, with people who are like" them. You are so far from their minds that they sometimes forget ordinary groundlings might occasionally land on a non-Fox news program while channel-surfing. Their candid remarks prove they know few are watching. The mainstream media can fire their own for honest moments of bias until the cows come home. It really doesn't matter. You see, the public is doing the firing for them by getting their news elsewhere ... Fox for instance.