...or does Channel 8 have a Republican bias? Here's the reason for my argument-
Today, the Governor of our fine state, Jennifer Granholm, marched in our Memorial Day Parade. Now, I believe that that is an honor to our city- of all the towns in Michigan having a parade today, she chose us. Wouldn't you think that it would make local news coverage?
Here's Channel 8's write-up of the story.
(I just saw their report on the parade on the news at 5, and the copy read just like the web page- which explains why their web pages read so poorly. I think they take them right off the teleprompter.)
That "one speaker" that read the names of the Iraq War dead from Michigan was none other than Michael Sak(D). Also in attendance was our Mayor George Heartwell, Rep. Jerry Kooiman (gag! -but, hey, I freely admit my bias), Paul Mayhue, and probably some others that I didn't recognize.
Left to right: Granholm, Sak, Kooiman and Heartwell.
Channel 8 doesn't mention any of them in regards to the parade. What they do report on when it concerns the Governor being here comes at 5:30, and it's a hatchet job about revenue sharing to the cities. In this piece, they mention Heartwell's attack on the cuts, and they interview Kooiman, who claims that the Governor's budget would raise taxes (!the horror!) to save revenue sharing, and God forbid, the Legislature wouldn't go for that.
At 6, they moved the story up to 2nd on the list, and expanded on it just a bit, but it still essentially said the same things. Raising taxes! If I was more ambitious, I would go look up exactly what they are talking about when they say that, but I don't want to pour through pages of state documents to find out. What taxes? Whose taxes? And if that was true, why wasn't the media screaming about it before?
Let's peruse Channel 13's website. Front page (as of this typing) has a story on Granholm being here. Nice little story, right to the point. Doesn't get into the budget or any of that bullshit. Just a report on the reason for the Governor's visit, which was Memorial Day.
Hmmmm. Maybe it's just me. But after Rick Albin practically bending over backwards the other day to correct the "figures" on the DeVos's political contributions, and the constant stream of reports critical of Lansing, it makes me wonder just who is directing the circus at WOOD and what their agenda is.