Gas Prices Media Coverup ? Some say yes ..not me

I just checked my Facebook and a person whom I like very much says that he thinks the media are purposely not reporting gas prices going up. ..And that the reason for this blatant ignorance of the gas price rise story is that the media is hiding the rising gas prices to help Obama.  And he punctuates his belief that he hasn't heard anything by saying the media is just trying to blame George W.  Now here is the thing...as absolutely preposterous as I believe his Facebook status statement to be, and furthermore indicative of how furious so many Virginians and Americans are with the job the president has done (or not done), I am amazed that as of this moment 8 people "like" his statement.

So, I for one have heard LOTS of media coverage about the gas prices, and while the media didn't go out of their way to praise Obama when prices were 3.00, they also haven't ignored the story as the Facebook friend claims.  Nor did they laugh hysterically when a candidate claimed if he were elected gas would be 2.00 a gallon.  This is just another example of how civility has left the great pastime of political discussion and disagreement.  I am amazed at how the audacity of some to make unsubstantiated statements is unchecked by certain some of us who see things with a bit more intellect and with less haze. 

I watch NBC news as well as the local ABC affiliate and Washington DC stations, WUSA 9, NBC 4, plus web news from cnn.com. foxnews.com, the very liberal Huffington Post, Time Magazine online to name a few.  I feel the media is bombarding us with news on gas prices.  And having worked in media for awhile, I think these entities talk about gas prices so much because media endeavors to talk about what everyone is talking about ..and EVERYONE is talking about gas prices.