Nearly everyone has heard the stories from Flint, MI, about their tainted water problems. I want to highlight how the media is not doing their job adequately in one aspect of the reporting on this story. The media is trying very hard not to say the leaders in Flint who made the decisions about water sources and infrastructure are Democrats.
Think Progress is a liberal, left-leading, online publication of news, mostly about politics and current events. A recent article on their site fails to mention that former Flint mayor Dayne Walling is a democrat. They do, however, mention that Gov. Rick Snyder is a republican. You see, Think Progress does not want to explicitly say the former mayor is democrat, thereby associating anyone in the democrat party with a negative story. But they have no such reservations when it comes to a republican governor.
I encourage you to pay attention to future news articles and reports, and take notice of the number of times reporters fail to mention a democrat affiliation in a negative story, compared to the republican affiliations to a negative story. The same is true in reverse in stories that shed positive light on any democrat politician.
For more information about politics in news reporting, visit Pew Research Center website.
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