therightfangirl | eye on the news (Reply)

Obama May Reconsider Military Tribunals for Guantanamo Detainees, Reports Say - remember how it was the outrage of outrages, the next step to dictatorship? remember how it was destroying us in the eyes of the world because of its intrinsic evil?

- http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/military-tribunals-return-guantanamo-bay-detainees/story?id=12732138

some other quick media points:

- total silence/lack of follow-up about gore's divorce
- total silence/lack of follow-up about hawaii's long-form birth cert flip flop - and now it turns out they're not allowed to release "personal information" - media doesn't point out obama could authorize release of everything [n.b. i'm not a birther]
- remember a thing called the stimulus? how's that working out? how much debt is it leaving us burdened with?
- there's a new congress in - what are they doing? notice how the breathless attention to every little thing the preceding congress was doing is gone?

this is what the media does: selective attention. when a more-statist/left thing is being discussed, the door is open and minds and eyes are open. news flows. when a less-statist/right thing is being discussed, the door is shut and the flow halts; at most there's a stiff and distant "objectivity" quite different from the warm and emotive tone used about things that fit the media bias. (no doubt this holds true for right-biased media, such as they are.)