Tea Party biased media coverage: Damning indictment of the editors and publishers of mainstream media

A Tale of Two Protests

By Jayme Evans
Sunday, May 2, 2010

The Tea Party Movement has known for a long time that coverage of their protests has held a decidedly liberal bias. That biased coverage is a damning indictment of the editors and publishers of mainstream media programming and publications who cannot be trusted to deliver anything close to the truth and who often manufacture the news with the goal of influencing public opinion, rather than fact-finding.

During coverage of the Tea Parties, conservatives were equated by my own, washed-up representative as Brown Shirts. The protesters were portrayed by the media as an angry, racist mob. The Department of Homeland Security issued warnings that health care opponents, ex-military members, abortion foes and Ron Paul supporters had all the markers of domestic terrorists. They were derided as “Tea-Baggersâ€