Asheville-based WLOS-TV Provides Biased Coverage of Freedom Works Healthcare Protest

This replaces my earlier, inferior copy with a better one provided by http://twitter.com/LiberT

WLOS-TV in Asheville, NC provides advocacy for ObamaCare as they "cover" a protest organized by Freedom Works in Asheville, NC at Democrat Congressman Heath Shuler's office.

The media all the way down to the local level is providing the shock troops to advance a Big Government solution to a problem caused by Bog Government.

Quoting Rush:

The press has met their Waterloo and it's Obama. They have sacrificed whatever integrity, character, professionalism, ethics that they've had. It's all gone. Their total reason, most of them, for existence is propping this guy up. They're not reporting the details of his plans. They're not reporting his policies. They're looking at it as a horse race. Obama win... Obama lose... They're running countdown clocks on some of the networks for the press conference last night. Countdown clock: 8 hours 25 minutes 13 seconds to Obama press conference. These people sitting around with their tingles up their legs all day. They marvel at how Obama is so smooth and elegant. They are not informing anybody about the details of his policies. And yet, 53%, over 50% in most polls now oppose this health care plan. So who's telling the people? Who's telling the people what's in it? Alternative media. Your network, talk radio, the conservative blogger network.The mainstream media has cashed in its chips. They have become nothing more than stenographers for Rahm Emanuel. And it is breathtaking to see; willingly sacrifice every characteristic that makes quality journalism.

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• WLOS
• Asheville
• ObamaCare
• healthcare
• media
• bias
• rush
• limbaugh
• FReedom
• Works

[candlercraig]

If you find this biased, then YOU are the ones using a warped lens. All WLOS is doing is showing both sides of the issues. Mr Minnick is wrong, he has only himself to blame, not the government. He and his wife retired to Mexico and when they couldn't afford it anymore they come back here and start whining. GO BACK, Why should the government have to take care of him when he spent his money in Mexico. NC does have an insurance fund for people that are not able to find it anywhere else.

[GraceTofall]

If you find this report biased in favor of health care, you had better think about the lenses you are using to view and understand it. Just because it doesn't provide advocacy for an anti-governmental viewpoint doesn't mean it is biased. It provides information and points-of-view from both sides. It isn't a deep report, sophisticated in its coverage, just a simple attempt to dive into the issue a bit and show what both sides think.

[rkpine]

It is biased! It sympathizes with one side -- do you see it now? Real journalism is dead, it is too hard for these folks.

[rkpine]

The government has not right to take over, and destroy the best system in the world, they do not do well with managing anything but the military. Look at social security, the post office, medicare etc..

[rkpine]

Diffucult to tell if they are just stupid or blind to the effects of a government take-over of yet anather industry! Lets talk about the affer effects of the government take over- then these dim folks might understand the dangers

[LokiMythos]

Ah, OK, so I don't get it, What part was biased?

[blingbling65943]

Once again reality has a Liberal bias,

[GraceTofall]

It isn't biased. It's an attempt to provide information about why health reform is a growing concern among many and about why others oppose it.

Only if you are looking for the most facile coverage, coverage of a noisy event rather than coverage of the issues that lay behind it, will you find this report biased.

Would you have suggested that reporters cover protesters screaming at government agents escorting African-Americans into segregated schools without digging deeper into that issue?

[berjaboy]

Not sure how I should rate this? The reporting is so bias and so nonchalant about it that giving it a five might look as if I support the way the story is presented, which I don't. But you can't get a better example of media bias then this. They basically blew off the concerns of the 40 to 50 protesters and instead sided with one couple. So why wasn't this couple at the protest too counter protesting? Why didn't I see any counter protesters. Why didn't the media report where they were?