And if McCain was 5 pts. Ahead in the polls would it be Reported ? And is it True today ?
When you LOSE TRUST you Stop watching . . . Been there, Done that.

It's hopeless to expect the biased media to change. They have a vested interest in staying biased, and people follow their interests. Instead, it's better to focus on the news consumer. If people follow their interests, as I believe, then it's in our collective interest to teach people to consume their news with judicious skepticism.

I suspect that most people already do. Of course, the problem is that the biased media won't tell us that. They only tell us that the media is the source of all truth and wisdom. Think of Katie Couric asking Sarah Palin which media outlets shaped her worldview. Couric is actively pushing the idea, or she just takes it for granted, that the media is supposed to shape worldviews. Couric's attitude? Swallow it (vulgar reference at your discretion). 

The moment I see a talking head with a microphone on television, I'm imediately suspicious. In fact, my natural inclination now is to assume that the reporter is a dope. Occasionally I watch Cops. Sometimes, there's a domestic dispute, and the cop pulls up to the house. As the cop is approaching the house, there's often a neighbor who tries to be "helpful" in explaining the situation. The helpful neighbor starts telling the story as he knows it, and inevitably the cop tells him to stand "over there." You know why? Because the cop knows that this helpful neighbor is almost always wrong. Besides, why is this helpful neighbor getting involved in the first place?

To me, a reporter is that helpful neighbor. He thinks he knows what's going on, and he thinks he's trying to help, but all he's really doing is fulfilling his own need to get involved. And like a cop, the first thing we need to do when approaching public issues is to tell these helpful neighbors to go stand over there.

Drudge has a link to this terrific and honest article by newspaper columnist Orson Scott Card (a Democrat) titled: Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights?. Card covers a wide range of issues that he believes have not been covered fairly or at all by the MSM. Here is a brief excerpt:

"Your job, as journalists, is to tell the truth. That's what you claim you do, when you accept people's money to buy or subscribe to your paper.

But right now, you are consenting to or actively promoting a big fat lie — that the housing crisis should somehow be blamed on Bush, McCain, and the Republicans. You have trained the American people to blame everything bad — even bad weather — on Bush, and they are responding as you have taught them to.

If you had any personal honor, each reporter and editor would be insisting on telling the truth — even if it hurts the election chances of your favorite candidate."

Card links to another excellent article by Thomas Sowell titled: Do Facts Matter? regarding the current financial crisis. Sowell writes:

"The current financial bailout crisis has propelled Barack Obama back into a substantial lead over John McCain-- which is astonishing in view of which man and which party has had the most to do with bringing on this crisis.

It raises the question: Do facts matter? Or is Obama's rhetoric and the media's spin enough to make facts irrelevant"

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The liberal media continues to sacrifice ethics and fairness for the greater cause: The Election of  Barack Hussein Obama to the Presidency of the United States.