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As the presidential primaries heated things up - especially after f Super Tuesday’s tallies and all the primaries - we saw the media on a daily basis as pyromaniacs, seemingly hell bent to throw flaming flagrons of fuel on the races to stoke up greater public interest in the subject. In fact, without any debate on the matter necessary, there’s overwhelming evidence galore to show that media endorsements and media pronouncements to underscore the reality that tells us that the majority of our press and media organizations aren’t only aimed at helping to pick our next president, media people work very hard behind the scenes, and on an individual basis when not wearing the press badge, to pick - either explicity or implicitly - through endorsement or otherwise, whomever it is that they believed could be the next American president.

Leaving aside for a moment all the rhetoric and heated debate about the media’s alleged manipulations and questionable “truthiness”, media organizations themselves have never really made any attempt to covertly disguise, camouflage or otherwise keep a secret their agenda to openly pick and back whatever candidate it is they wish to see the winner and election day victor on the ballot at the polls. This is, after all, the stuff of American politics and, as such, it has dutifully earned its rightful place in our modern-day political process.

I’d be remiss if I didn’t quickly add here that we really must give the press and all media organizations their rightful due by acknowledging that they at least STRIVE to be fairly transparent in their actions. Unlike the single candidate ballot selection possibilities in other nations holding non-democratic elections, we Americans at least get some just democratic ideal delievery, where the rubber meets the road, when we as readers of this or that newspaper or as a viewer of this or that TV news program can grasp that,