Media Bias -- an example

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Never heard of her

Part of the televangelist team of Jim and Tammy Faye Baker in the 1970s and 1980s. She was known for her emotional style and excessive makeup. He subsequently went to jail for malfeasance (richly deserved). She was, apparently not only sincere in her faith, but uninvolved in Jim's embezzling and unaware of his many adulteries. Consequently, she has been looked upon more as a pitiable figure than as a crook. After her divorce from Jim, she remarried a fellow by the name of Messner.

Obviously, I view Falwell's more serious accomplishments -- and political influence -- as far more noteworthy (for good or for ill depending on your perspective) than anything she was involved with.

[Tribesman]

She was known for her emotional style and excessive makeup. He subsequently went to jail for malfeasance (richly deserved). She was, apparently not only sincere in her faith, but uninvolved in Jim's embezzling and unaware of his many adulteries. Consequently, she has been looked upon more as a pitiable figure than as a crook. After her divorce from Jim, she remarried a fellow by the name of Messner.

She was married to a crook and a liar and helped him with his business and benefitted from the frauds , she then married another crook and liar who helped her original crook and liar husband and benefitted from the frauds .She is a scumbag, she was not sincere in her faith she was a fraud who married two frauds and exploited peoples gullibility in faith .
Jerry Falwell is a scumbag crook and liar who has crooked dealings with all the others mentioned and benefitted from their frauds and exploits peoples gullibility in faith .
To link them is not an example of media bias it is linking people who are linked both in crime , habits and dodgy business dealings .

[Ronin]

a hustler is a hustler...

one being more famous than the other does not make one more "honorable" than the other.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

She was married to a crook and a liar and helped him with his business and benefitted from the frauds,

True. knowingly or not she did benefit from the monies. Nor did she lead a "crusade" to return every donation or anything of that sort.

she then married another crook and liar who helped her original crook and liar husband and benefitted from the frauds.

There are those who argue that all contractors are crooks and liars... ....but I'd agree hubby #2 was far from a perfect Christian.

She is a scumbag, she was not sincere in her faith she was a fraud who married two frauds and exploited peoples gullibility in faith.

You can't possibly judge the sincerity of her faith, nor can I. She certainly married one fraud/swindler and then married a chap whose business practices were -- at the least -- questionable.

Jerry Falwell is a scumbag crook and liar who has crooked dealings with all the others mentioned and benefitted from their frauds and exploits peoples gullibility in faith.

Maybe so. You'll hear lots of good things said of him and many viscious things. At a guess, probably both are true.

To link them is not an example of media bias it is linking people who are linked both in crime , habits and dodgy business dealings.

Yeah, but for me, what NBC did was equivalent to putting together Roger Maris and Babe Ruth on the same side-by-side. Sure they did the same thing for a living, but one was of much greater significance than the other. To put them side by side implies an equality of importance that just isn't there.

If you wan't to "'take on" Falwell and his legacy, than the more honorable choice is to make a statement like you did, Tribes, and then back it up (and Jerry did provide ammunition for such an attack, no doubt).

The snide cheapening of Falwell's role was, I submit, a notch tacky.