Does the Country Really Need Allan Loudell Style “Objective” Journalists?
Afraid of being seen as “liberal,” Loudell and the rest of the traditional media has ignored the simple truth that Obama is winning. Instead, they continue to push the narrative that the presidential race is close. As a result, people are bailing on the traditional media as a source of information and are going directly to more reliable outlets.
The sham “objectivity” that requires Allan to “balance” true and accurate stories of rightwing failure and malfeasance with transparently inane “he said/she said” counterpoints is now hurting old media. Perhaps Loudell has the stature in Delaware to buck this trend, but I don’t see it happening.
There is, no doubt, a lot of corporate pressure put on him to continue to play along with the wingnut fantasy that there is no such thing as objective truth. He is bound by a system that dictates that there are no real facts, but every news story about politics is the net outcome of the positive and negative spin of opposing ideological camps. That Loudell cannot stand up to that pressure is not surprising but too bad for Delaware. WDEL is the 70th largest news/talk radio station in the country, and the audiece that depends on WDEL for “news” is getting dissed.
Here is the blurb that got me thinking about all this from electoral-vote.com
Are the Traditional Media Afraid to Tell the Truth?
Pretty much all the election projection Websites like this one show Obama over 270 electoral votes. Even very overtly Republican Websites like Real Clear Politics and Election Projection have Obama at 277 and 364 electoral votes, respectively. In contrast, MSNBC and CNN have Obama at 264 and the New York Times has him at 260. Chris Bowers has a story on this discrepancy. He hypothesizes that they are afraid of being accused of being pro-Obama and would like a close race since that gets more readers/viewers. He ends with: “So much information is publicly available now that a few nerds obsessed with poll numbers are much better sources for election information than you will evey get from big media.” I guess that’s a compliment, sort of.