Media Bias the Third man in the ring?

Should the media be banned from influ­enc­ing the out­comes of elec­tions?

Should they be active­ly seek­ing to devel­op meth­ods of influ­ence and then charg­ing large mul­ti-nation­al cor­po­ra­tions, (which pay no tax­es) to ped­dle that influ­ence on a broad­cast? 

Opin­ion for sale to the high­est bid­der?   Is that news, Real­ly?

Is the media now a par­tic­i­pant in the polit­i­cal process and if so is it fair for the media to take sides in this process which is and has ever been that of the peo­ple by the peo­ple for the peo­ple. If you were to go to a box­ing match and the announc­er sud­den­ly start­ed punch­ing one oppo­nent, the first thing that you would think would be “What the Heck is going on” this is a box­ing con­test between two oppo­nents not two against one, but that is real­ly what is going on when you look at what the media did in 2008 and has con­tin­ued to do for the last three years.

Yet, appar­ent­ly most of Amer­i­ca has either not noticed or they are blind to what the media has been doing.

Are they real­ly that slick that they can oper­ate behind smoke filled rooms care­ful­ly plan­ning on who will be the next pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States, and if that is going on, how is that a fair con­test?

The press and the media used to report the news, now they are becom­ing the news sto­ry.

Will the peo­ple allow the media to attempt to influ­ence and con­trol the vot­ing process through alleged­ly unfair cov­er­age of the polit­i­cal process.

In the box­ing anal­o­gy above, it would be insane to con­sid­er two against one a fair con­test yet, that is real­ly what the media is doing pre­tend­ing to cov­er the news but real­ly invent­ing the news accord­ing to their own ideas of what they “think the news should be.

When you con­sid­er the entire sto­ry then you have to acknowl­edge that the media has been active­ly par­tic­i­pat­ing in the polit­i­cal elec­tion process for some time now, but until the inter­net no one knew what they were up to or few peo­ple knew it because the media can­not active­ly report on their own behav­iors can they?