'Stunning Lapse in Judgment' for CNN to Ignore Baucus Scandal

This is a case study of why liberal media bias is a dangerous thing. If you have one political party in control of government and the news media is working with the government to control the flow information, it's a recipe for disaster. It's the end of democracy as we know it.

From NewsBustes:

On Sunday's "Reliable Sources," CNN's Howard Kurtz brought up the scarcity of media attention paid to the revelation that high-profile Democratic Senator Max Baucus nominated his girlfriend to be a U.S. attorney for his home state of Montana, as the CNN host even took to task CNN for ignoring the scandal, calling it a "stunning lapse in judgment," and recounted that he had monitored the news channel on Saturday and did not see Baucus mentioned. Kurtz: "Washington Post has it on page three, New York Times has it on page 33. I watched CNN all day yesterday. I didn't see any mention of this story, which I thought was a stunning lapse in judgment."

When Kurtz questioned why there was so little media attention, guest Chip Reid of CBS News asserted there was "no scandal" in the story. Reid: I don't think it has legs because there's no sex scandal, and it's not like Vitter. It's not like Ensign. There's no scandal here."

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