Why did the media give a FORMER Vice President (Cheney) wall-to-wall coverage of his speech on terrorism this morning? Why is THIS Vice President given such priviledge...especially at this critical time in our history? I contend he does not deserve it, and it will only further divide the country and prevent our current President from being successful.
I obviously support President Obama and his policies. But I have to tell you that my outrage today is because of media unfairness.
I turned on MSNBC this morning to see FORMER Vice President Dick Cheney making his case for war and torture...AGAIN...WITH FULL MEDIA COVERAGE. So I switched to CNN...and there he was again. Fox? You get the idea.
What about Vice President Al Gore's speeches about the run-up to the Iraq War? Why didn't the media cover THOSE? During the run-up to the war in Iraq, former Vice President Al Gore was speaking out against it...and a citizen had to either read his speeches online, or (in the case of later speeches) buy them from C-Span and play them on a DVD player. NO ONE covered him...let alone broadcast his speeches live.
This kind of media coverage, in my opinion, is ridiculous and unfair. We had an election in November, 2008, and elections matter. So does fairness. Either cover BOTH former Vice Presidents, or cover neither one.
So, now that Cheney is 'all over the airwaves', what do we do to be more fair? I suggest a broadcast of Al Gore's speech...given in 2006 at Constitution Hall in Washington D.C. You can find it at c-span.org.
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/...