Dick Cheney Will Fix Things
Nice opening paragraph:
"With oil soaring to a record $108 a barrel amid mounting signs of U.S. economic turbulence, President George W. Bush said Monday that he was sending Vice President Dick Cheney to the Middle East to raise concerns about oil prices and to press Israeli and Palestinian leaders to move toward peace."
One of the nation's largest oil barons and war mongers is headed overseas to fix high oil prices and forge world peace. When penning an honest report, do we really still proceed under the premise that Dick Cheney gives a flying, effervescent shit about either high oil prices or peace?
I really do wish American journalists had Cojones. They continue to forget their job is to report the truth, not to spew gutless, feigned objective drivel that blows past the truth like it was a broken tractor on the Autobahn. If you're doing your job as a journalist, someone will probably get mad. This glossy, marginally sentient, violently unoffensive style of reporting is simply to protect ad revenue and backsides.
If you're writing a piece about Dick Cheney lowering oil prices and solving world peace and there's not a shred of skepticism (even in the form of contrasting analysis from an expert) you've got fucking problems. I mean seriously -- go write product manuals. "Bias" these days is a word morons use to character assassinate opposing world views, and this desire to portray all things in an even light despite heavy evidence to one particular truth borders on criminal.