President Obama suffered a large, embarrassing loss in the Senate on a
slew of gun-control bills. If this were a Republican president, they’d
be sounding the lame-duck alarms on the nightly newscasts. But most
media outlets can’t do this. They were fully invested in this campaign
alongside Obama, and to underscore his weakness is to acknowledge their
own.
Since mid-December, the broadcast networks and cable news hosts like
Chris Matthews, Piers Morgan and Joe Scarborough have relentlessly lobbied for gun
control. On how many occasions did they completely shred the notion of
objectivity -- of journalism itself -- and boldly engage in lobbying for
gun control, using their networks as megaphones?
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