The MSM is Liberal?? You Don't Say...
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| Tue, 09-30-2008 - 11:29pm |
I guess you can call it a double-edged sword. People say stay informed and know the issues. They tell you to watch the news. They tell you read the newspaper, but when you seek out these sources in your quest to stay enlightened you end up getting frustrated, especially if you are conservative or subscribe to traditional American values. Why? Because you are being force fed pure, unadulterated liberal BS chock full of their biased views. So the next time you just happen to sit down in front of the TV, pick up the newspaper or click on that webpage don't question that feeling in the pit of your stomach. Because if you're anything like me you probably want to throw up because it is no secret as to what the liberal media is trying to do. These organizations have the audacity to try to pass the garbage they peddle on the public as objective news reporting. And it just gets progressively worse every year. The news coverage of the presidential primaries and general election season has been and is an absolute farce. Most major media outlets and their talking heads are nothing more than a marketing arm of the Barack Obama campaign. To these people this man can do no wrong. He possesses no real experience or major accomplishments, can outright lie through his teeth and

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You said it....it's truly deplorable what they've become.
I love selective memory.
The MSM buried attacks on Clinton until Drudge reported it.
~I'll leave you with a few facts to chew on about the liberal media from the Media Research Center~
I thought you objected to biased sources? At any rate, Would you please post
Merely correcting you when you're wrong.
As for Clinton's private life, the only comment I personally have on that is his terrible taste.
>>I love selective memory.
Selective memory, indeed. How about Judith Miller and WMDs? (Leading up to the war, she reported extensively in the NYT that Iraq indeed had WMDs. Later it was found that she was flat wrong.) Or the NYT and the wiretapping story? (At the request of the administration, the newspaper sat on the story -- for 13 months -- that our government was illegally wiretapping its citizens.)
The media does not have an inherent liberal bias. The media does not have an inherent conservative bias. Some journalists (Judith Miller) have made dumb and biased decisions. Some media outlets (Fox News) have clearly been setting their news agenda according to administration requests/memos. Some programs (Limbaugh and Olbermann) look like news but are merely entertainment programmed for a particular political mindset. Some newspapers' editorial boards are more liberal; some are more conservative. But to say that the media as a whole is unequivocally biased one way or the other is silly. We could go all day with examples showing that it's not true.
This much is true: the media as a whole has fallen down on its commitment to the public to provide timely, thought-provoking, well-researched and complete coverage. There are many, many reasons for that -- not the least of which the news corporations themselves -- but on the whole, bias is not the problem.
Laura
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