another example of subjective journalism or are the opinion pages fair game for more i'm joined by jeremy holden director at research director of research at media matters all right so let's start off germany i just want to start by naming some names of this wall street journal saga we have john bolton max boot we ate casey paula dobriansky mala mary glenn glenn hubbard paul petersen david rivkin and martin west all these people are romney campaign advisers and all they're also op ed writers like i mentioned but like i said that the wall street journal tends to be conservative so what the pages the problem becomes one of disclosure of giving the reader the relevant context to choose for themselves how they need to take this analysis with i think with somebody like john bolton you know people can look at it and say well it's pretty clear where john bolton is coming from. stake in the outcome of this election long we've seen fox news so it really isn't a secret knowing in his case anyway that he does lean to the right but some of these other people i mean unless you're really paying attention to t

the public in a way that grabs viewers right jeremy thank you so much for joining us that was jeremy holden director of research at media matters thank you and speaking of subjective journalism we have a prime case of t.v. cable news trying to be first with the story on the hopes of gaining a few ratings points just about an hour ago fox news covered a police chase that started in phoenix the chase had lasted over an hour but the suspect jumped from the car and ran into a field with a live news chopper overhead the suspect pulled out a gun and shot himself in the head on live television fox news quickly went to a break and then came back with this apology. really messed up. and we're all very sorry. that didn't belong on t.v. we took every precaution we knew how to take to keep that from being on t.v. and i personally apologize to you that that happened. now what happened to this van is tragic but what's sad is that this is the state of the mainstream media here in the us today the if it bleeds it leads mentality they were so eager to cover this so-called breaking news that they broadcast l