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Okay, here's my break-off thread from the "Addressing the President" thread.
It seemed the big news story of last weekend was Live 8, the big concert where a bunch of rock stars got together, talked about poverty, and raised a bunch of money to send to the African dictators who keep people impoverished. I'm sure they mean well.
In the meantime, Sean Hannity puts on his annual "Freedom Concert," which has raised 6 million for scholarships for the children of the soldiers who've died in Iraq, and nobody bats an eye.
Now I'm no fan of Hannity. I don't even get Fox news, but his radio show is mostly just him gushing and drooling all over guests. (I do listen when it's a good guest).
But it truly does bug me that the media is so slow to recognize the charitable contributions of conservatives.
Even if you hate talk-show hosts, the fact is, they're celebrities. Hannity brings out rock-show sized crowds everywhere he goes. Limbaugh, despite a lack of talent, is nearly diefied.
So why no Entertainment Tonight at the Freedom Concert? Why no press coverage for Limbaugh's annual Lukemia/Lymphoma Society fundraisers?
Why does Bono get introduced as "Singer and Social Acitivist," and real social activists who are right wing get no such credit for their humanitarian efforts?
Radio guys who have more listeners than Stern in most markets still get less press than Stern, simply because of their politics.
Can we really argue there's no bias here?
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Okay--I am by no means saying the coverage should have been equal. I realize that Live 8 will be helping feed hungry dictators everywhere and that they had world-wide satellite feeds, and I'm sure it was worth every second of coverage it got this past week.
But when I did a search on Yahoo! news on the freedom concert, I only got a half dozen articles.
(Okay, I got a whole bunch, but most of them were for the Philidelphia Freedom Concert that Elton John put on to raise money for AIDS awareness. When I filtered it down to "Hannity" it went down to half a dozen. Which further proves my point.)
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