Another example of liberal media bias

A lot of people glance at headlines in newspapers or skim the first paragraph and move on to the comics or sports pages. Editors know this. Editors with a liberal agenda also know how to slant stories and headlines to make their case.

Being in the news business, I get to read everything The Associated Press sends out. The interesting thing here is how newspapers choose to play up stories to serve their political agenda.

The Associated Press moved a story Friday saying that approval ratings for President Bush and the Democratic-controlled Congress have hit new lows.

The story was based on a new Ipsos poll commissioned by The Associated Press.

President Bush's approval rating was 32 percent. Nothing new there. Bush's numbers have hovered around 30 for several years as Americans have grown weary of the lack of progress in Iraq.

The real news in the poll was that Congress's performance was approved by just 22 percent of those who participated in the poll. That should have been the headline of the story in your local newspaper. The headline should have read: "Congressional Democrats fare worse than president"

If you read the Reading Eagle, which is an extremely liberal newspaper, this was the headline on the poll story: "Bush approval ratings remain low"

Why would an editor go out of his way to slant the story to make Bush look bad while ignoring the real "news"? That, boys and girls, is an example of liberal media bias, which pervades the mainstream media in the U.S.

Anything negative about Republicans or the Bush administration is plastered on the front page. Negative news about Democrats is buried on inside pages or not used at all.

Keep that in mind next time you pick up your local paper. Try reading the full story instead of just the headline.

For the record, the lowest approval numbers for a president were recorded for Harry Truman, who received a 23 percent approval ranking in 1951 and 1952. The worst for Congress was an 18 percent approval rating in 1992.

A headline writer could have also said "Approval rating for Congress nears historic low" but since the Democrats took control of Congress in January, the liberal media has stopped being so critical of Congress. Makes you wonder why.