Bias in coverage of Jackson, Obama

Whether you agree with Jesse Jackson or not, everybody must agree that he is a very high profile and public personality in support of the Democratic Party and the liberal cause. Therefore, when he recently talked on camera about how angry he was with Sen. Obama, one would have expected a huge negative reaction from the media and public denunciations from everybody in our political system condemning his crude and incredibly unprofessional comments. If a conservative personality had made those very same comments about Sen. Obama, it would have been front page news on every paper and the lead story on every news show in the United States and Europe for days and days.

But it wasn't. Why not? Could it be that Jesse Jackson is a Democrat and that he is African-American? The media is clearly biased in favor of the liberal side of the Democratic Party and chooses to avoid anything that can put the liberal wing of the Democratic Party in a bad light (ask Hillary about that!) And the media doesn't dare say anything negative about a liberal standard-bearer who is also African-American. The media usually focuses only on actions by conservatives that can be portrayed in a negative light. All Reverend Jackson had to do was apologize and the issue was dropped.

Who looses with this bias? We the American people do. How can we make informed hard choices when the media is biased and distorts the news that we must use to make our choices? This recent event is just one more confirmation that the media bias is there every day. We the people better start demanding the unvarnished and objective facts from the media and hold them accountable through their pocket books if they don't deliver it, or our political process is in jeopardy.

It will be interesting to see if the Daily Herald prints this. If they do, they are one of the good guys on the media bias issue!

Randall Rossi

Grayslake