Television Media Bias

An age-old problem, can we trust what the T.V. media tells us? No we can not! Most of the media in this party seems to be bought and paid for by one of the two prominent parties. Fox obviously by the GOP, and seemingly the rest of the T.V. media world by the democrats. Set the news aside, it has even trickled down (to steal a favorite Reaganomics term) into our favorite prime time shows. This past Monday, the day before the historic election of our 44th president, I was watching my favorite show Boston Legal, and the Democratic bias of David E. Kelley was sickening to a registered GOP member. This show is a spin-off of his very successful show "The Practice". The show follows the inter workings of huge Boston law firm Crane, Poole, and Schmidt. The two main characters are Allen Shore, a very liberal lawyer who is portrayed as a brilliant litigant, and Denny Crane. Crane is conservative, and was once the best lawyer in Boston. But now Crane has early Alzheimer and is portrayed as very crazy and just a buffoon. The portrayal of the conservative Crane as a buffoon is just a beginning of the slant of this show. In all of his closing arguments, Shore spews out the current liberal agenda, no matter what the subject of the case. Then in the episode before the election, Crane is asked why he supports McCain and he does not give an answer before Shore starts making fun of Palin. And at the end of the episode, Kelley has Crane vote for Obama because after the past eight years he "knew the wrong choice". On this show full of liberals, the one conservative voice was silenced because of media bias.