Whom does this biased media really support?

To quote John Mayer, "when you trust your television, what you get it what you got, 'cuz when the own the information, they can bend it all they want." Normally, this seems to be a common complaint from the Republican Party. No matter how bipartisan a news anchor or even a news network tries to be, you can never take your personal opinion and biases out of what you report. There have been reports, for years and years, that the major news networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, so forth and so on) have had a "liberal bias" and report the Republican Party in a negative light. Evidence of this was never so glaring when NBC edited President Bush's answer, deliberately, to change his answer with regards to "appeasement." Conversely, Fox News is the subject of boisterous and constant criticism of their "conservative bias," reporting the Democratic Party in a negative light. Evidence of this was equally as glaring when Fox News covered Barack Obama's former minister, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, for about a month straight. You couldn't go 10 minutes without hearing those infamous sound bytes from Reverend Wright.

So what is the point of the media anyway? Well, for one, it is how most of the country stays informed on the issues: political, economical, social, sports and the like. This particular election has been interesting. John McCain's campaign often criticizes the "liberal media" for proclaiming Barack Obama as "the messiah" and seems to be in awe with Obama. On the other side, Barack Obama has criticized that same media for showing favoritism to Senator McCain. Particularly after the election, Senator Obama called out the media for not questioning several unfounded and dishonest claims from the Republican National Convention, Sarah Palin and John McCain. The big issue was the both McCain and Palin criticized Barack Obama for placing $1 billion in earmarks while he has been in office. This number, has been rounded up to the nearest billion, as Barack Obama has only placed $850 million in earmarks while he has been in office. It will be particularly interesting to see how this plays out. While there will always be those claims that the major networks have a liberal bias, John McCain does have a "media darling" status with the media.

On that tangent, it will be interesting to see how John McCain handles Barack Obama's interview with Bill O'Reilly. From the get go of his campaign, Barack Obama has been the "anti-war" candidate and has said numerous times, "I knew invading Iraq was a mistake before we invaded, and stand firm in that belief." He won several voters over with that claim, and many believe that is how he got the nomination of Hillary Clinton. However, since securing the nomination, he stance has change. Barack Obama, in an interview with Bill O'Reilly, stated that "the surge" is in fact working, and progress is being made in Iraq. John McCain has stated that he would stay in Iraq for "100 years" to finish this war, and has been chastised for that claim. I think we will Obama's stance on Iraq questioned hard in the coming weeks, especially in that first debate.