Fair and Balanced

I have just been thinking allot lately about how we receive our information, for anything like political news, economic, and world events. It is from the media, and whether you read the New York Times or the LA Times most of the time you are reading new with a twist. Such as the recent poll in the New York Times suggesting that 57 percent were willing to pay higher taxes for universal health care while 37 percent were not willing to and 6 percent had no opinion. So with me reading this I am seeing here that the majority of people would like to have social health care system. However, you find the question asked at the bottom of the page who did you vote for? 48 percent of those people voted for Obama and only 25 percent voted McCain, and the other 19 percent did not vote. But by my recollections the popular vote was a little closer that 2 to 1 for Obama right, more like 53 to 46 percent Obama. So what I am seeing here is that the media is able to show there information the way they want to, not the way things actually are. With the 4th of July here I just want to mention that Thomas Jefferson nor John Adams were a fan of the media however, they did know that is was necessary to have in a Democratic republic. So these media sources were given special privileges to have the ability to report what was actually occurring. I just wish we could have that option of being able to have the fact straight down the middle no right or left, just the facts.