Media Bias

Liberal: Slate.com

“Bill Maher Congratulates Conservative Pundits for Throwing Sarah Palin Under the Bus”

         Slate posts a story about Bill Maher basically being sarcastic about Sarah Palin and her speech in Iowa. He basically bashed Republicans then entire time by saying “Didn’t that feel good to finally purge yourself of something that wasn’t sitting well in your gut?” Maher asked. “It’s like when you’re sick and you make yourself throw up, you feel better afterwards.” And how they are late to the party and “what took them so long? The rest of us have been watching this dog eat grass for seven years.”

Conservative: Fox News

“Panning Palin: Why conservative media are dismissing her 2016 prospects”

        

         Fox News posts a story Howard Kurtz discussing Sarah Palin and her speech in Iowa. He talks about how Sarah was a “sad story” on Saturday, and how the media is not taking her serious. Kurtz said that he would take her serious when she steps down as a Fox News contributor. We still see that the speech in Iowa did not help her but the media does not help. She is still a household name and is important since her 2008 Vice President run.

Reflection:

Both news sites did not speak highly of Palin on her trip to Iowa, but Fox News did do a better job at trying to have a positive spin while The Slate just basically bashed Palin. Seeing how Palin usually falls better with conservative outlets it is accurate that they will try to push her in a better light and for the liberal outlets to take her down. Bill Maher talking complete trash and picking apart Palin is not truly fair but it is just what happens in media. But I do believe that bashing the Republicans is taking it too far.

         If someone only saw the article by Bill Maher they would think that Palin is not able or ready to run our country. Within the first 15 seconds, he says “Many Republicans have come forward to say you were right Sarah Palin is a crazy person” from that alone it just makes it seem hard for someone to want to listen to what that person has to say or let them run our country.

Now if they saw what Howard Kurtz had said they would see that yes she is struggling but she has some steps to take to before people will take her 2016 run for President serious. It is fair to say that yes she has cried wolf before but she has done a lot in the past 8 years since her VP run and the media has not really helped her. If she were to run for President in 2016 I think the media will try to tear her apart again and that is what is holding her back a bit.

But if she did run I think she would get people on board and she would have the right push to make and get things done. Now all she has to do is take some steps and she will be able to get the rest of the media behind her and people will stop completely criticizing her and making her look like an idiot.