BFT 7.0 - Liar, liar, media's on fire!

Ove the course of the last week, as the Democrats finally came up with a nominee, the media has spent a large chunk of its time looking back on the race and the missteps made and what can be learned from the campaign, and what can be expected in a race between Senators McCain and Obama. 

I am not sure what you have taken from the race, maybe it was a profound liking of one candidate over the other, or a profound disliking of one candidate over the other.  Maybe it was riveting and caused you to vote, maybe it was tedious and you wished it all would go away.  Whatever it was, a large number of you took something away from it all.  As for what I took away from it?  The media are a pack of liars.

Mind you, not a pack that favors one over the other, just a pack of liars either looking to fill TV time or column inches, but liars nonetheless.  Three examples if I might. 1) Shortly after John McCain received the Republican nod, the New York Times ran a front page story about how Senator McCain had an affair with a lobbyist.  The problem was, they had no evidence to support such a claim, but they ran the story anyway. 2) The night Barack Obama recieved the delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton was involved in a conference call with some of her supporters, where she was asked if she would be willing to be Obama's Vice President.  She answered yes, she would consider it if offered.  The media took that answer to a question and proceeded to create the story that she was lobbying to be Vice President.  Certainly some of her supporters were hoping she would be selected to be on the ticket, but at no time did the media actually provide any proof that Hillary herself had done anything but answer a simple question posed to her.  3) Late this week, Senator Obama fresh off of his victory was asked about Michelle Obama and the "whitey" video.  The problem is, there isn't a shred of evidence that such a tape exists, it is all based on a posting by an ex CIA guy, Larry Johnson on his blog, and his story has changed a number of times since its original posting, but never has there been a single report of an actual person having this tape. 

This lack of facts has not stopped the media however, as they bloviate amongst themselves how these shocking revelations of nothing somehow affect the campaign.  Here is a novel idea, when doing reporting, how about basing it on facts in evidence rather than rumor and speculation.  And if you can't handle that simple job criteria, then get the hell out of the way for people who can.