In a conversation with her daughter Meghan, Cindy McCain speaks out about the media and other issues.

From The Daily Beast

I know I cringed at some articles written about you where you were accused of being a Stepford wife or a Barbie doll. Why do you think the media didn’t take the time to dig deeper into your personality and instead put you in a box?

Well, I think, without sounding bitter—and I’m not bitter—I do believe there was a media bias. I do believe that the media had a specific agenda and with that said, the American people cast their vote. But I do believe that there is a voyeuristic media: Everyone is a reporter now because everyone has a camera on their phone, the face of reporting in general has changed. There is very little difference now between journalism and gossip.

I truly feel that unless the media goes back to unbiased reporting they are going to do a disservice to the youth of this country. The future of this country lies in the youth and we have to be good stewards of information and truth. There is so much more to it than just one article and people telling lies, it affects much more than that. It is interesting that it got to the point where The New York Times profile of me is being used as an example of the bias in reporting in journalism classes, at your alma mater, Columbia’s journalism school, I believe.

Liberals in the media continue to deny that they fostered any pro-Obama bias, but given the hype over the inauguration one would have to be blind not to see it.

 

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