Media Bias

[TLWisfoine]

For wing-nuts the M$M is Rushbo, Insannity, FAUX News, and to a growing extent ABC News (what the is up with John Stousel?!?) ....for everyone else, it's the corporate media and their propaganda... CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ...the only real liberal news is the BBC....

People who actually think that any of the MSM is liberal don't know what the liberalism is.

[Wild Cobra]

People who actually think that any of the MSM is liberal don't know what the liberalism is.

I think most people accept in the context of this conversation that liberal is left of center and conservative is right of center.

[TLWisfoine]

Considering that both sides claim that the MSM favors the other (and each can give opinions/facts to back that up) I think the real issue is that the media controls the info that we are given and does it's best to keep us distracted from government with entertainment stories and non-news crap. And I don't think it is the republicans doing it too keep the people under-informed. It benefits both parties for the general public to have the elections become dog and pony shows rather than about the issues. IF the democrats encouraged the media to make the american voter more critical of government and policies, then when a democrat was in the white house they wold face the same scrunity of the public. Instead, those who want to become educated on the issues have to do lots fo their own investigating and research, and while that is the way it should be, the vast majority of americans don't have the time/desire to do so and thus let the media decide for them what is important. That is more of a problem than trying to decide which political point of view the media slants towards (not to mention that is an argument with no right or wrong answer)

Great post!!! I doubt anyone here thinks much of it though as you don't take a side.

[TLWisfoine]

I think most people accept in the context of this conversation that liberal is left of center and conservative is right of center.

So just because they may put President Bush and his administration to task on many of the policies they put forth, and in my opinion the MSM doesn't this enough, makes them liberal? What you call liberalism I call having common sense.

[xrayzebra]

So just because they may put President Bush and his administration to task on many of the policies they put forth, and in my opinion the MSM doesn't this enough, makes them liberal? What you call liberalism I call having common sense.

Would kinda expect you to call it "common sense". But
that doesn't make it so. We still call it "liberalism".

Common sense reporting does only: Reports, who, how,
when and where. I and others are grown up and we can
figure things out for ourselves. And it means reporting
all the news not just what they want to report that looks
good for their side and bad for the other side.
Which is what most of the news does now days. Fox
comes closest to doing it, but they do lean right of
center.

One reason I like Rush, it cites both sides of the press.
Liberal and Conservative. He voices his views, but he
lets you know right up front which side he is on. You
wont find that in any other media.