The Talk Of The Town Part II

Susan Santag on World Trade Center Bombings:
In this article, Susan opens with a rather pessimistic, but understandable view on the reactions of the politicians and the mass media after the events of September 11, 2001. She is "depressed" at the rather hot-headed accusations made by the press and the Politicians, when calling the terrorists cowards, as well as their deception when stating America's candor. She also states that such "reality-concealing rhetoric" is "unworthy of mature democracy". Finally, she closes with the opinion that, sure America's strong (obviously, we are the number one nuclear power in the world and control the United Nations), but "that's not all America has to be".
While I am not quite sure what Ms. Santag means by her last statement "that's not all America has to be", I do agree with her, as of late, about the deception of the press and Politicians "unworthy of democracy". Ever since the Watergate Scandal of 1972, it seems that the press has made a shift and is becoming more and more biased. This curve towards total bias steepened exponentially in the last presidential race between John McCain and Barack Obama. It was shown that most of the news reporters and anchormen and women of many stations including NBC, ABC, CBS, as well as and especially MSNBC were openly biased towards the Democratic Party. Walter Cronkite, before his death, even stated in an interview how disgusted he was at the Media for not doing it's job and showing open bias on stories such as the election. Finally, pure democracy shows a sway from left to right on the political spectrum while keeping balanced, but because of the recent economic crisis the government has swayed further left than has ever happened before, leaving me wondering, will it ever balance itself out again or has the scale and our democracy broken at last?