Yes, we all saw that work so well with Hillary Clinton's campaign!

All I want is equal coverage; leave the grilling of candidates & their spokespeople up to the pundits and reporters with entire shows devoted to debating the issues and the commensurate experience to cover it properly. When I turn into “Headline News” I expect the facts to be presented to me — there will always be inherent bias. But when I turn it on and see Robin Meade flambeeing Rudy Giuliani at 7am or Campbell Brown screaming at the top of her lungs at a McCain spokesperson about Sarah Palin so the guy can't even talk, I get pretty disgusted with “the liberal media” too. What is reprehensible about Fox New's ideas of “fair and balanced” also holds true for MSNBC's blatant leftist leanings and now CNN's ad nauseum and unrelentingly negative coverage of Sarah Palin, McCain himself and the RNC.

Many people turn to CNN thinking they'll get balanced coverage but they're quite wrong in this instance. I don't think anyone can seriously think this interview represents journalistic integrity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohkdj1Gw9Ac

The issues and information are slowly but surely getting out there and being addressed, but what the major news network are doing to the GOP lately smacks more of muckracking and yellow journalism.

The public views the media as bias and untruthful. Their popularity is as low as the democrat congress, less than 9% approval.

If McCain can play off of the public’s perception that the media is trying to force Obama down their throats, he can gain a significant amount of support.

Where did she go?

SARAH PALIN!

Come on, Lady! It's been FIVE FREAKING DAYS! I think we've come up with a FEW questions by now!

(Jazz throws a glass of cold water on his face.)

Ok, look. The woman is single handedly destroying my reputation as an attack dog who goes after both of the major parties here because the Democrats are doing NOTHING in the news, and McCain and Rick Davis are tossing me so much red meat I can not HELP but abuse them! COME ON, SARAH! Five minutes! That's all we're asking! Hell's bells, I'll do the interview myself and PROMISE not to mention ANY of your children or anyone in your family and I can STILL do two hours worth. Throw us a bone here!

They'd ask him about the Palin controversy.

Joe points out what should be an obvious law of electioneering. The dreaded “Mainstream Media” are still, unfortunately, the only game in town for the lion's share of the voter base. While you may not care for the treatment you are receiving from one particular outlet on a given day, not showing up next time only ensures that you have zero chance to answer any charges that may come out. When you don't allow yourself the chance to present your side of the story, ALL the viewers will see is what the media chooses to show them.

Even the Democrats are back to making the rounds on Fox again, where they have zero chance of anyone saying anything nice about them. But at least they get some microphone time to give their side.

More on point — thanks for the links, especially to the Times interview. Reading it almost made me think he's just too tired to know what he thinks anymore…it almost makes me feel bad for the guy.