Media Mash: Debt Ceiling Edition
“You know, in Journalism 101, if you're going to ask a question of someone like the president, what you do is, you take, respectfully, you take the opposition's best argument and you play devil's advocate,” NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell argued on the July 14 edition of “Hannity.” But instead of taking that approach — which, Bozell noted, the famous liberal reporter Sam Donaldson took both with Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton — the media have been actively working with Obama to forward the Democratic narrative regarding the debt ceiling negotiations. [Video follows page break]
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