There really is no doubt that the media is slanted. But the coverage of the War in Iraq, with the very small amount of good news being reported, and the large amount of news focusing around people dying and carnage being everywhere, one would think the media is just out to bash President Bush.
Well, yeah, but that's just in the spin.
See, the media rarely reports any good news even on the home front. No, it's only news if people are getting killed or maimed or people are being robbed, etc. If a normal person does what they should be doing for a day, it's not news. If a fireman stops a fire, the news is about the fire - not the stopping of it. For the most part, at least.
So why do we expect GOOD news to be reported out of a war zone, when they don't even report it at home? Reporters have no experience with finding good news. Soldier helping someone? Bah, they do that everyday. Skip it, find something else to report.