Wingnuts report stations to FCC for not covering Tea Parties more favorably

You can't make this stuff up, people.

The FCC ruled in 1969 that TV and radio stations can't intentionally distort news coverage. That's because the airwaves are a public trust, and stations have to operate in the public interest.

But distort news they do. Anyone familiar with talk radio or Fox News has seen the media's right-wing bias up close and personal.

Believe it or not, however, conservatives are now griping to the FCC because they feel the media isn't right-wing enough. They've used their net of hate blogs to amass an unspecified number of formal FCC complaints against CNN and MSNBC, as they claim these networks' coverage of the Tea Parties hasn't been favorable enough.

They seriously think the media's coverage of the Tea Parties is too unfavorable? Uh, hello??? The Cincinnati Tea Party this month didn't just receive favorable coverage. The event was sponsored outright by powerful WKRC radio.

How's that for distorting the news?

There's been almost no coverage at all of protests by opponents of the Tea Parties.

Gee, no right-wing bias there, huh? (That's sarcasm!)

Most of the people who claim the media is biased against the Tea Parties are media people themselves - which kind of discredits their own claim, doesn't it?