A Tax Cheat from Four Different Perspectives, isn't Necessarily a Tax Cheat.

I thought I would do a comparison to illustrate Media Bias. I visited the websites of four different "News" organizations. FOX News, CNN, MSNBC, and The New York Times.

Over at FOX this was the headline:
TAX ISSUE DOGS DASCHLE. The gist of the article was written from the perspective that only after the vetting process started did Daschle file an amended return and pay back taxes with interest. It is interesting to note that this is the TOP Story on FOX News as of 11:31pm MST on 1/30/09

AT CNN the headline read:
HHS PICK DASCHLE FACES TAX SCRUTINY. At CNN the article focused on the Senate Finance Committe and its "review" of a car that may or may not have been used by Daschle. This was a secondary headline also at 11:35 MST on 1/30/09

MSNBC:
TAX ISSUES EMERGE IN DASCHLE NOMINATION. The article didn't even mention an investigation by the Senate Finance Committee, in fact, the article lead with the fact that Tom Daschle had recently paid back taxes in the amount of $128,000 with $11,000 in interest. The timeline implied in this article makes it seem like Daschle paid the taxes before he went under scrutiny. This article was a small secondary headline as of 11:36 pm MST on 1/30/09

The New York Times:
USE OF FREE CAR LANDS TOM DASCHLE IN TAX TROUBLE. at the NYC Times, this article makes the reader believe that some obscure part of the government "alleges" that Tom Daschle owes taxes on the use of the car. It really hammers home the opinion that the use of the free car and NOT the non-payment of taxes is what caused this problem. Once again, this was a third-rate headline on the front page at 11:40 pm 1/30/09.

Four articles about the same thing and three of them make Daschle look like a victim. Two of them leading us to believe that Tom Daschle paid the taxes before the investigation while one article actually tries to convince the reader that Daschle may or may not have even used the car. Only FOX tells us that Daschle paid ONLY AFTER the "mistake" was discovered by the Senate Finance Committee.

If this were a Bush nominee, the stories would have been LEAD headlines but in this case the Liberal Mainstream Media who are slobbering over President Obama, try to spin this story to be sympathetic to a liberal nominee.

I would encourage all of my readers to not take stories at face value where the MAINSTREAM Media is concerned but to dig deeper and find the truth.