Few members of the mainstream news media -- and supposed ethicists -- criticized or even covered the matter of the wrongness of PBS' Gwen Ifill to be moderator at last night's vice presidential debate.
Only the Columbia Journalism Review wrote something that questioned the rightness of her still moderating the debate. It was actually CJR readers who were more consistent and concrete. One said:
"Ifill stands to make tons of money if Obama wins and very little if he loses. Period. She has a financial interest in seeing his campaign do better. Even larger than this story however, is that this type of ethics breach is all to common among today's left-wing activist 'journalists'."
The supposed media watchdog site at the Poynter Institute ran only a story about Ifill's damning conflict of interest. PBS' ombudsman said Ifill's book should have been reported earlier to the Presidential Debate Commission for it to make a decision about Ifill being moderator. Ifill, in an interview with AP, said she did not notify the commission about the book. That's another wrong.
The big loser from last night's debate was the news media. Polls citing the winner and loser in the debate broke across ideologicall lines.
The media will pay for its continuing lack of objectivity -- losing readers and viewers along with their credibility.
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