Earlier this month, columnist (and Democrat… again, DEMOCRAT) Orson Scott Card challenged the media to find their lost principles in a column entitled “Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights?”. In this piece that got national attention, he scolded the news media:

“If you do not tell the truth about the Democrats — including Barack Obama — and do so with the same energy you would use if the miscreants were Republicans — then you are not journalists by any standard.

You’re just the public relations machine of the Democratic Party, and it’s time you were all fired and real journalists brought in, so that we can actually have a news paper in our city.”

Media coverage of Barack Obama has become so biased in his favor that one is shocked when a reporter asks real questions of Democrat candidates. Hard-hitting questions should be the norm, not the exception. In this stunning case, reporter Barbara West of WFTV in Florida had the courage to confront Joe Biden with pointed questions about ACORN, Obama’s socialist-like policies and Biden’s warning of an “international crisis” if Obama is elected:


h/t: Gateway Pundit

UPDATE: In typical Obama campaign fashion, WFTV has been blacklisted by Obama’s campaign. The Orlando Sentinel is reporting:

“Biden so disliked West’s line of questioning that the Obama campaign canceled a WFTV interview with Jill Biden, the candidate’s wife.

‘This cancellation is non-negotiable, and further opportunities for your station to interview with this campaign are unlikely, at best for the duration of the remaining days until the election,’ wrote Laura K. McGinnis, Central Florida communications director for the Obama campaign.

McGinnis said the Biden cancellation was ‘a result of her husband’s experience yesterday during the satellite interview with Barbara West.’” [emphasis added]

Not only did they cut off access to the Obama campaign until the election — which one might understand them doing — but they openly say that the blacklisting could continue beyond November 4th.

Why are there no howls of protest from other members of the media?

Why has the media abandoned its responsibility as the challenger of those in power?

This country needs more newspeople with the courage of WFTV news director Bob Jordan and reporter Barbara West. The Sentinel article continues:

“WFTV news director Bob Jordan said, ‘When you get a shot to ask these candidates, you want to make the most of it. They usually give you five minutes.’

Jordan said political campaigns in general pick and choose the stations they like. And stations often pose softball questions during the satellite interviews.

‘Mr. Biden didn’t like the questions,’ Jordan said. ‘We choose not to ask softball questions.’”

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