What Liberal Bias?

[GreatOak]

For all the partisan lackeys that didn't know before, a recent study confirmed the obvious fact that the media has neither a liberal or a conservative bias, but rather an ESTABLISHMENT bias in favor of whoever is in charge of the government. Principles go out the window when it becomes convenient. The mainstream media is just a tool used to foster obedience and create divisiveness between the people.

[Lenonis]

Given all the negative coverage of the ACA in the press and the lack of coverage of the positive things going on with it, I'm going to go ahead and hold to my line that the media as a subscription bias. They will print whatever will drive up readership.

[Spectral]

I generally concur with that. I'm sure it will be met from some corners with cries that the media was totally mean to Bush. My response would be that they weren't anywhere close to as mean as they should have been, but were as charitable as can be imagined.

[GreatOak]

I generally concur with that. I'm sure it will be met from some corners with cries that the media was totally mean to Bush. My response would be that they weren't anywhere close to as mean as they should have been, but were as charitable as can be imagined.

The media was very pro-Iraq war for a long time. People often forget that.

[Vyxn]

Given all the negative coverage of the ACA in the press and the lack of coverage of the positive things going on with it, I'm going to go ahead and hold to my line that the media as a subscription bias. They will print whatever will drive up readership.

they are attacking the ACA law and the roll out but very few critical stories about Obama him self not till he was caught in his lie of you can keep your plan
other reason the media cant cover for him anymore because this law personally and negatively affects the public and the public is hungry for information that will personally effects them and also it now is in pop culture as a joke and a failure

[mvaliz]

It goes like this:

MSNBC = caters to Liberals
FOX news = caters to Republicans/Tea Party
CNN/Rest of the media = caters towards whatever controversy is that can get them the most ratings at that moment...

[Catta]

Well in the US you have your liberal and conservative bias. It just happens to be the libereal establishment and the conservative one.

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It goes like this:

MSNBC = caters to Liberals
FOX news = caters to Republicans/Tea Party
CNN/Rest of the media = caters towards whatever controversy is that can get them the most ratings at that moment...

I thought it not being Fox News automatically made it the liberal media? :P

[Sarcon]

I'll agree up until Fox News. Fox is always conservative.

[mvaliz]

I thought it not being Fox News automatically made it the liberal media? :P

Hehe - well, that's Tea Party logic for you. :P

[Cthulhu 2020]

Hehe - well, that's Tea Party logic for you. :P

Tea Party logic is that Fox has a liberal bias. Then again when you're wall fucking the right so hard to try to go even farther right than was known possible, everything tends to have a left bias.

[Masark]

It goes like this:

MSNBC = caters to their corporate overlords
FOX news = caters to Rupert Murdoch
CNN/Rest of the media = caters to their corporate overlords

Some slight corrections.

[Feral Camel]

FOX news = caters to Rupert Murdoch

Are Australia and the US the only countries where he has a large media sway?

[Masark]

Are Australia and the US the only countries where he has a large media sway?

Other than owning The Times, this listing suggests that is the case.

[Kraenen]

a conservative bias is an establishment bias

[Gestopft]

The media is a business; business needs to cater to its customers. Most customers, ideologically, are in the middle. Certain media outlets will go after niche markets (MSNBC, Fox News), but "The Media" as a whole is pretty smack-dab in the center, where the customers are. This is why if you are conservative, the media is clearly a bunch of bleeding-heart hippies and if you are liberal, the media is obviously a puppet of their corporate overlords.

[Grummgug]

The media was very pro-Iraq war for a long time. People often forget that.

The democrats, including Hillary Clinton, were pro-Iraq war and voted for the war. People forget that. The mainstream liberal press turned against the war at the same the democrats did. Remember John Kerry saying "I was for the war before I was against it."

Once the democrats decided they had an angle to defeat republicans on the Iraq war, they flipped their opinion of the war and the media ran cover for them.

[Shadowmelded]

Are Australia and the US the only countries where he has a large media sway?

Other than owning The Times, this listing suggests that is the case.

Also BSkyB http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSkyB although I think he passed the reigns to his spawn James.

[Wells]

The democrats, including Hillary Clinton, were pro-Iraq war and voted for the war. People forget that. The mainstream liberal press turned against the war at the same the democrats did. Remember John Kerry saying "I was for the war before I was against it."

Once the democrats decided they had an angle to defeat republicans on the Iraq war, they flipped their opinion of the war and the media ran cover for them.

Here's the difference. In the Democratic party now its a liability to have supported the War.

In the GOP its a feature.

[Tastyfish]

For all the partisan lackeys that didn't know before

We didn't start the flame war, rite?
Can't you find better language then that?

[Grummgug]

If you are wondering where the liberal bias is, you need to ask the correct questions...

1. name current TV shows, movies, etc., that portray Christian religious figures such as priests and nuns in a positive light, and atheists in a negative light.
2. Count the number of instances where a priest or nun was portrayed as a town elder, a guide, someone that the people can turn to for guidance and help. It pretty much never happens. There is your liberal bias.
3. Count the tv shows, movies, etc, that portray the private sector and corporations as just and good fighting against evil big government. You can count this on...one hand maybe?
4. Count the tv shows, movies, etc., that portray big government as just and good fighting against evil corporations. This is all over the place!

5. Name me the top 5 current performances by an actor or actress who played a priest or a nun in a leading role, or as a good upstanding citizen and civic leader. I'm sure you can't even THINK of 5, let alone discriminate between good and bad performances. That's a media blackout by liberals who don't even want to acknowledge clergy exist.

83% of the United States is christian. Yet, you cannot even think of hardly any (even one????) current A-list actor or actress who had a prominent role as a priest or nun. Just stop and think about how biased that is. Hollywood is so far to the left of the country that they cannot even include such characters as positive role models in works of popular fiction.

So tell me again, what liberal bias....