Bob McCarty Writes

On the homestretch of the 2008 presidential election season, ABC News technology writer Michael Malone expressed what so many Americans feel they already know in his article, Media’s Presidential Bias and Decline, published Friday.  It begins this way:

The traditional media are playing a very, very dangerous game — with their readers, with the Constitution and with their own fates.

The sheer bias in the print and television coverage of this election campaign is not just bewildering, but appalling. And over the last few months I’ve found myself slowly moving from shaking my head at the obvious one-sided reporting, to actually shouting at the screen of my television and my laptop computer.

But worst of all, for the last couple weeks, I’ve begun — for the first time in my adult life — to be embarrassed to admit what I do for a living. A few days ago, when asked by a new acquaintance what I did for a living, I replied that I was “a writer,” because I couldn’t bring myself to admit to a stranger that I’m a journalist.

I won’t spoil it all here, but do encourage you to read the article in its entirely here.  After you do, take time to leave a comment below the article that thanks Malone for his willingness to risk his future employment with such an open and honest account of media bias.