As Rosslyn Smith noted , the protests by those in the media that they really are objective and are just there to report the facts so please, please don't shoot the messenger if the results are not to your liking is false.  Michael Hastings, a Newsweek reporter  who has covered presidential candidates, admits in a GQ.com article aptly titled "Hack: Confessions of a Campaign Reporter,"to the lack of media objectivity.  Covering Rudy Giuliani, he confesses:The reality is: I quickly realized Rudy was a maniac. I had a recurring fantasy in which I took him out during a press conference (it was nonlethal, just something that put him out of commission for a year or so), saving America from the horror of a President Giuliani. If that sounds like I had some trouble being “objective,” I did. Objectivity is a fallacy. In campaign reporting more than any other kind of press coverage, reporters aren’t just covering a story, they’re a part of...(Read Full Post)