-By Warner Todd Huston
Here is the sort of liberal bias that is easy to see even by those out there who might try to pretend that liberal bias doesn’t exist in the media. Kevin McDonough writes a TV review column for United Feature Syndicate called “Tune in Tonight.”
Now, first of all, it must be pointed out that Mr. McDonough is a critic and, therefore, makes his living (or a portion of it as the case may be) by giving that opinion. So, it is without question that if he has a liberally biased opinion, the fact that his entire reason for writing is to disseminate that opinion is a legitimate practice. It isn’t my point to say that McDonough’s opinion is somehow illicit or should be stopped. The point I am making is that his is just another example of left-wing bias in the media.
Anyway, in one of his latest reviews in “Tune in Tonight,” McDonough takes a slam against Bill O’Reilly, really for no reason at all. I say no reason because Bill O’Reilly wasn’t the subject of McDonough’s piece and was only thrown in there because he has some sort of problem with O’Reilly’s point of view.
Here is how McDonough started a recent TV review:
Television has many powers. Its ability to distract (VH1), entertain (“The Office”), inform (“The NewsHour”), deceive (“The O’Reilly Factor”), anger (ditto) and sell (QVC) are well documented.
So, O’Reilly’s show is only meant to “deceive” and “anger,” yet “The Newshour” is meant to “inform”? Pretty blatant bias there!
McDonough meant to write a piece on the upcoming PBS series about American poet Walt Whitman a man famed even in his day for an ambiguousness of his own sexuality. Rumors abounded that he was homosexual, but there is little real proof on whether he was or not. There is also some evidence that he might have been bisexual. Whatever the case, he was an early American poet who penned his most renowned book “Leaves of Grass.”
So, what the heck does Walt Whitman have to do with Bill O’Reilly? Well, nothing, but McDonough found a way to slam O’Reilly anyway. In the end, this is a perfect example of sticking liberal bias in a story for no substantive reason.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as newsbusters.org, townhall.com, New Media Journal, Men’s News Daily and the New Media Alliance among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events. He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book “Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture” which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of publiusforum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions : EMAIL Warner Todd Huston