Orson Scott Card justly slams the media

I'm reluctant to talk politics with some people because it always turns into an argument. I don't like contention. However, I was impressed by an Oct. 5 column by Orson Scott Card. If you've ever watched CNN, you know what he's talking about. But it goes much further than CNN. There's no doubt that most journalists out there are acting without ethics (as with the situation with Joe the plumber).

Journalists generally tend to be more liberal than other people (it must be the crusade for "freedom of speech," but they stretch it too far). You can find the whole text at this link: Column

The following are a few of the best paragraphs from Card's column:

Your job, as journalists, is to tell the truth. That's what you claim you do, when you accept people's money to buy or subscribe to your paper.

But right now, you are consenting to or actively promoting a big fat lie -- that the housing crisis should somehow be blamed on Bush, McCain, and the Republicans. You have trained the American people to blame everything bad -- even bad weather -- on Bush, and they are responding as you have taught them to.

If you had any personal honor, each reporter and editor would be insisting on telling the truth -- even if it hurts the election chances of your favorite candidate.

Because that's what honorable people do. Honest people tell the truth even when they don't like the probable consequences. That's what honesty means. That's how trust is earned.

Barack Obama is just another politician, and not a very wise one. He has revealed his ignorance and naivete time after time -- and you have swept it under the rug, treated it as nothing.

Meanwhile, you have participated in the borking of Sarah Palin, reporting savage attacks on her for the pregnancy of her unmarried daughter -- while you ignored the story of John Edwards's own adultery for many months.

So I ask you now: Do you have any standards at all? Do you even know what honesty means?