More Media Bias
With the continually unfolding Reutersgate fauxtography scandal, it should come as no surprise that the media really does have an agenda. Check out this piece by Donna Cassata in the AP--clearly an opinion piece disguised as news. A quote:

An Associated Press-Ipsos poll conducted this week found the president's approval rating has dropped to 33 percent, matching his low in May. His handling of nearly every issue, from the Iraq war to foreign policy, contributed to the president's decline around the nation, even in the Republican-friendly South.

More sobering for the GOP are the number of voters who backed Bush in 2004 who are ready to vote Democratic in the fall's congressional elections — 19 percent. These one-time Bush voters are more likely to be female, self-described moderates, low- to middle-income and from the Northeast and Midwest.

Two years after giving the Republican president another term, more than half of these voters — 57 percent — disapprove of the job Bush is doing.

"The signs now point to the most likely outcome of Democrats gaining control of the House," said Robert Erikson, a Columbia University political science professor.

First of all, Bush's approval rating has been hovering around 40% for the last two weeks, but I won't quibble about that. What I do have a problem with is this: What is the news in this story? A certain demographic which may or may not feel this way in 2008 is disenchanted with the President. This leads a Columbia University professor to predict doom for the GOP. There's a shocker.

We should trust the AP right? After all, they'll publish photos like this.
- posted by Base10 @ 10:59 AM