Anti-Bush views sway coverage

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GUEST COLUMN
Anti-Bush views sway coverage

by Shaunti Feldhahn

I'm beginning to wonder whether our major news outlets should
run a disclaimer after any story about President Bush:
"This report reflects the personal opinion of the
journalist and does not necessarily represent XYZ News
Company's policy of objective reporting."

We all know that the media trend liberal — just 7 percent of
journalists identified themselves as conservative in the most
recent Pew Research poll. But while we may wince at biased
reporting every now and then, we generally trust media outlets
to prevent personal views from influencing news.

However, every now and then we glimpse the intense
journalistic desire to see Bush defeated, and see how clouded
journalistic integrity can become when reporters encounter
Bush-bashing stories that they desperately want to be true.

CBS' Dan Rather often demonstrates this tendency. 

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