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For me, the media (and we're talking in-your-face headline media, not dig-until-you-find-the-story media) fails to present an objective "truth" not because it's left- or right-leaning, but because in almost every case, sensationalism trumps everything.

Case in point: I come to work today, and my boss says, "Did you see this? Lindsay Lohan has come out against Palin." He reads me the story, chuckling all the way through it. I agree with him that Lohan is a terrible political spokesperson, but did he hear what Greenspan said about McCain's proposed tax plan last Friday on Bloomberg? Of course he hadn't.

(In a nutshell - Greenspan said that McCain's 3.3 trillion dollar tax cut won't work unless there's an equal cut in the budget. Bloomberg's website pointed out that McCain's proposed cuts to earmarks and pork barrel spending would be under $200 billion - and that McCain hasn't spelled out any other specific cuts.)