I'm not sure if Viewpoints Editor Karen Owen thinks that left-wing media bias doesn't exist, or that if it does exist it's no big deal. Either way, she is sorely mistaken ["Big crybabies are trying to distract us," Oct. 25].
Anyone who cannot see the liberal bias in the mainstream media today is either lying or not paying attention.
Here are but two of numerous examples that occur every day.
President Obama and his administration are intentionally trying to de-legitimize Fox News as a credible news organization, and there is barely a peep from ABC, CBS, NBC, or CNN.
Can you imagine if Karl Rove had tried to marginalize CNN? All we would have heard would have been cries, and rightfully so, of violation of the First Amendment by the White House.
In 1982, when unemployment reached 9.4 percent under President Reagan, only stories of gloom and doom could be found in the media with regard to the economy.
In 2009, when unemployment is at the same level or worse, there is no lack of news reports on all the jobs being saved and that times really aren't so bad.
Different eras, different journalists? Well, Charles Gibson of ABC news 27 years ago found "no good news" in the unemployment rate, but the same level of joblessness led him to report on Aug. 7 that "the economy may finally be turning the corner."
Ms. Owen says we have many more important issues to worry about than media bias. Untrue. This is why media bias is important.
If the sources of our news are not telling us the facts and are blatantly skewed one way, we who are going about our daily lives making the country work will not have the knowledge to make intelligent choices when it's time to vote.
We expect political advertising to be slanted one way; we don't expect supposedly hard news coverage to be.
Joe Mangin
Stafford