Ever since Sarah Palin hit the spotlight during the 2008 Presidential election she has been a magnet of attention in the media. Her eccentric personality and her very unique views on many issues, she is both loved and hated among the American population. Media organizations often portray her quite differently reflecting the political bias of their respective editorial staff. Fox News and CNN portray Sarah Palin in drastically different ways to build up support for their network; Fox portrays her has an American hero while CNN portrays her as an uneducated and ignorant politician.
With Libya dominating recent news, and the President having discussed the national position in this new humanitarian aid "war." It would only make sense that Sarah Palin would have spoken out on the situation.[1]
She spoke on Fox News and explained her disgust for Obama and how he has no reasons to get into this war. Despite the fact that she agrees with Obama in the fact that she strongly dislikes Gaddafi and encourages the spread of democracy and freedom across the globe, she still could not find anything positive in the Presidents statement.[2] Fox, being a strong source of conservative media, openly discussed the hate for Obama that Palin obviously feels, and even Greta Van Susteren began interjecting her own opinions on the speech, saying it was "flat" and implied that it was a weak speech because it failed in both its main purposes, or at least those she felt it should serve.[1] Also, they also fail to mention her blatant lie that the no-fly-zone costs $600,000,000 a day, when in fact costs $600 million in the first week, with prices to be dropped dramatically as the weeks progress.[3][4] Rather than being informative and substantive in their news broadcasting, they express bias opinions in order to gain more support for their cause, and supporting Sarah Palin as a politician. This bias in the media tends to lionize Palin,bolstering up their views while trying to appeal to their vast conservative audience.
The CNN reporting was along the same lines as Fox News.[5] Just as Fox had a strong conservative bias, CNN posed a quite liberal bias in their opinions on Sarah Palin. Rather than take Sarah Palin's message as a whole, they took the worst and most uninformed bits and went about disproving them piece by piece to hurt her political career. For example, she stated "We're going to hand over command and control to a steering committee. I don’t think that this has ever been a part of foreign policy, a military mission in the U.S. before."[5] Rather than focus on her main opinion that the United States should not be handing over control, they expose her ignorance in order to invalidate her opinion. Instead of focusing on the politics, these media organizations express their own views about political candidates creating a bias reporting from both sides.
[1] http://video.foxnews.com/v/4612646/palin-on-obamas-war
[2] http://sarahpalininformation.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/sarah-palin/
[3] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/23/libya-no-fly-zone-could-cost-one-billion_n_839364.html
[4] http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/libya-us-intervention-fly-zone-gadhafi-cost-taxpayers/story?id=13242136
[5] http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/29/gop-contenders-say-foreigners-in-charge-of-american-forces-whats-true/?iref=allsearch
[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_branch_of_government
[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_bias_in_the_United_States
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