Thread: Does the US media have a liberal bias?

Originally Posted by funcrew

I try to read mostly UK news about USA topics. Easier to take than the opposite fringe positions of Fox or CNN.

As of late, the British Press is more un-biased towards USA news than say NYT or LA times etc. And especially, less biased than CNN

how low will they go?

well, let's take a look at rasmussen to find out.

TIME has described Rasmussen Reports as a "conservative-leaning polling group".[69] According to Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin political scientist who co-developed Pollster.com,[70] “He [Rasmussen] polls less favorably for Democrats, and that’s why he’s become a lightning rod." Franklin also said: "It’s clear that his results are typically more Republican than the other person’s results.”[50]

The Center For Public Integrity listed "Scott Rasmussen Inc" as a paid consultant for the 2004 George W. Bush campaign.[71] The Washington Post reported that the 2004 Bush reelection campaign had used a feature on the Rasmussen Reports website that allowed customers to program their own polls, and that Rasmussen asserted that he had not written any of the questions or assisted Republicans.[48]

Rasmussen has received criticism over the wording in its polls.[72][73] Asking a polling question with different wording can affect the results of the poll;[74] the commentators in question allege that the questions Rasmussen ask in polls are skewed in order to favor a specific response. For instance, when Rasmussen polled whether Republican voters thought Rush Limbaugh was the leader of their party, the specific question they asked was: "Agree or Disagree: 'Rush Limbaugh is the leader of the Republican Party -- he says jump and they say how high.'"[73]

Rasmussen Reports - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

^More spin by Breitbart. A gross exageration of the language and content of the ad which hasn't even appeared on TV.

They’re already hard at it.
This was posted at Yahoo this afternoon hours after today’s announcement.

WHAT BIAS?

Via Orbusmax:

• ABC: “5 things Mitt doesn’t want you to know about Paul Ryan”…
• ABC Wraps Ryan in ‘Conservative’ Tags… But No ‘Liberal’ Labels for Biden in 2008…
• Networks: Ryan Could ‘Destroy’ Medicare…
• CNN’s Candy Crowley: Ryan Pick ‘Looks a Little Bit Like Some Sort of Ticket Death Wish’…
• WHAT BIAS? Esquire writer Charles Pierce calls Paul Ryan a ‘zombie-eyed granny-starver’…

^ That Esquire article is a good read. It came out last March, not recently.

Paul Ryan's Budget Is a Cowardly Political Joke, by Charles P. Pierce - Esquire

Flashback: Left-Leaning PolitiFact Named Democrats Claim Paul Ryan Wants To End Medicare The 2011 “Lie Of The Year”…


And they’ve already started repeating it.


Lie of the Year 2011: ‘Republicans voted to end Medicare’ — PolitiFact

Republicans muscled a budget through the House of Representatives in April that they said would take an important step toward reducing the federal deficit. Introduced by U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the plan kept Medicare intact for people 55 or older, but dramatically changed the program for everyone else by privatizing it and providing government subsidies.
Democrats pounced. Just four days after the party-line vote, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee released a Web ad that said seniors will have to pay $12,500 more for health care “because Republicans voted to end Medicare.”


Rep. Steve Israel of New York, head of the DCCC, appeared on cable news shows and declared that Republicans voted to “terminate Medicare.” from the Agenda Project, a liberal group, said the plan would leave the country “without Medicare” and showed a Ryan look-alike pushing an old woman in a wheelchair off a cliff. And just last month, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi sent a fundraising appeal that said: “House Republicans’ vote to end Medicare is a shameful act of betrayal.”

After two years of being pounded by Republicans with often false charges about the 2010 health care law, the Democrats were turning the tables.
PolitiFact debunked the Medicare charge in nine separate fact-checks rated False or Pants on Fire, most often in attacks leveled against Republican House members.

Now, PolitiFact has chosen the Democrats’ claim as the 2011 Lie of the Year.


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Wanna great laugh this Wednesday morning? Check out how Wolf Blitzer (not the sharpest tool) literally destroys Debbie (Sgt.) Shultz in her talking points:

Brutal: CNN Torches DWS on Medicare Falsehoods

Let me say this right up front: Congratulations to Wolf Blitzer for being a . If you value the truth, this interview is a pleasure to watch. If you have even an ounce of human compassion for the in-over-her-head target of Blitzer's inquisition, it's positively brutal:

DNC Chair Gets Blitzed By Wolf On False Medicare Attacks - YouTube

You gotta give Blitzer credit this time. He would not let her spin her lies and usual talking points. He made her admit that anyone over 55 was not affected by this now. It was sure painful getting there, but she did have to admit it. Almost feel sorry for the poor schmuck, eh?

^Ryan's plan could be implemented at any time. The only reason the republicans want to phase this in slowly is because they know they would be murdered at the polls. Its a ploy to avoid getting slammed by the voters.

Originally Posted by Minnie Maugham

Whaaa? You think the Reid-led Senate or Obama would pass Ryan's bill?

I don't think the house would pass it at the moment, it seems to be getting more toxic by the day.

Remember the kerfuffle over that other budget when Repubs expected it to fail and then freaked out when it looked like it was going to pass because the Dems were voting 'present' instead of 'no' so they had to go change their votes to be against it too?

http://politics.gather.com/viewArtic...81474979229300

A house vote on the Ryan fiasco would probably end up like that if Boehner was stupid enough to let it come to the floor this close to the general.

Originally Posted by Humbert

Originally Posted by Minnie Maugham

Whaaa? You think the Reid-led Senate or Obama would pass Ryan's bill?

What an idiotic comment. If Romney gets elected you don't think the plan has a good chance of being implemented?

during the primaries romney said he would sign it if it crossed his desk. there were no 'ifs' 'ands' or 'buts'......he said he'd sign it.

and this is partly why i'm beginning to think this election is essentially over before it really even gets started.

romney is now tied to the ryan budget by word (what he said during the primaries) and by deed (selecting ryan as VP).....undoubtedly he'll try to flip-flip, but the oldsters aren't going to take a chance on having these two hucksters destroy medicare and social security.

romney has run one of the most confounding campaigns i've ever witnessed....and once it's over and we can see the wreckage, it may be judged as the most inept.

Denver Post Removes Biden's 'Chains' Comment from AP Story

Colorado residents who get their news from the print edition of The Denver Post must be scratching their heads this morning. Why is everyone talking about Vice President Joe Biden's comments about "chains?"

You'll have to forgive them.
Denver's paper of record did more than bury an Associated Press story recalling how Biden said the GOP was "going to put y'all back in chains" to a crowd full of black Virginia residents on page 20A in its Nation & World section. The paper routinely highlights negative stories about Mitt Romney while ignoring or burying news that does President Barack Obama no favors.
The newspaper also edited out the most important line in the Vice President's address.


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It's getting worse. Thank God for the 'alternative' media, eh?

Look Who the Press Is Blaming for the Ugly Campaign.

“What a surprise. Mitt Romney finally throws a counterpunch to a series of outrageous Obama campaign lies, and the press accuses Romney of going negative. The media’s pro-Obama bias is a wonder to behold.”

Pretty amazing, eh? In other words, the Left is deep into that flop/sweat mode!

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by funcrew

I try to read mostly UK news about USA topics. Easier to take than the opposite fringe positions of Fox or CNN.

As of late, the British Press is more un-biased towards USA news than say NYT or LA times etc. And especially, less biased than CNN

They're all subjective with their respective agendas, Booners.
Universally leaning support of the establishment and general accepted convention.

It would be more interesting to ask: What makes this news source liberal or conservative?

Corporate media will always be homogenous as brethren.
No one here, as of yet, has even touched upon true "alternative" info - be it right or left....

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

No one here, as of yet, has even touched upon true "alternative" info - be it right or left....

The true 'alternative' media if you want to call it that is the interweb where one can pull up 'both sides' in short order and form decisions rather than, for example, be fed a constant progressive line from the Lamestream Media.

It's really cool when someone like John Sununu bitchslaps one of the Libtards in the Lamestream Media.

Sununu Pimp Slaps Liberal Muppet on CNN - YouTube

Liberal mouthpiece gets called out on her bullshit on CNN.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

No one here, as of yet, has even touched upon true "alternative" info - be it right or left....

The true 'alternative' media if you want to call it that is the interweb where one can pull up 'both sides' in short order and form decisions rather than, for example, be fed a constant progressive line from the Lamestream Media.

I wouldn't call that [what you refer to] as progressive - corporate media.
Mainstream works for the same boss.
They're far too clever for the populous, creating divisiveness where there isn't any, manufacturing opposing political philosophies that really don't exist.

They're very good at what they do.
Dumbing down.
Fabricating pre-disposed "political" identities.
Playing one against the other......when there truly isn't an "other"

Most of the [already] catatonic population eats it up with gusto.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Look Who the Press Is Blaming for the Ugly Campaign.

“What a surprise. Mitt Romney finally throws a counterpunch to a series of outrageous Obama campaign lies, and the press accuses Romney of going negative. The media’s pro-Obama bias is a wonder to behold.”

Pretty amazing, eh? In other words, the Left is deep into that flop/sweat mode!

It's amazing, Boon. Our president's conduct has been outrageous. It demonstrates he has no respect for the office he holds and it demonstrates he has no respect for our country's institutions.

And the media when skimming the president's conduct they must throw Romney in as if the two are equaling appalling in their behavior. The media cannot let the president stand alone in their condemnation.

MSNBC’s Touré, a supposed racial expert who can spot racism in most inanimate objects, most Yiddish phrases, and all English words, has now declared that Mitt Romney is engaged in the “niggerization” of Barack Obama. What exactly did Romney do to earn this reprehensible slur? He said that Obama, whose campaign has already called Romney a racist, a sexist, a felon, and a murderer, should “take [his] campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago.”

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What a guy, eh?

I force myself to watch some msm "news" every day to see what kinda Kool-aid they're feeding the masses.


It seems that a lot of people have the same opinion, but than referring to "Fox News".

Is there some alternative to get some unbiased news ?

Originally Posted by Lambik

Is there some alternative to get some unbiased news ?

Good question. Back in the day watching Uncle Walter we were subjected to the liberal line 100% of the time. As well as all big city newspaper editorial policies. Today there's just Fox News with a differing editorial policy and the Left can't stand it. In terms of a totally un-biased news source? Some say the Christian Science Monitor is one but it's also a real boring read.

^
Thanks, however on base of the name of this news organization it doesn't seem to be totally unbiased.

Keep in mind that MSNBC was started to be a counterpoint to fox news. The toilet that fox news is needed a counterpoint and there never was one before. The reality is that American politics have veered so heavily to the right that any retarded rightwing sicko can post up a blog and have a voice and dumb and dumber will jump on board. There are people on this forum who cut and paste those pure pieces of shit as if they were holy nuggets. Sad indeed.

Originally Posted by Lambik

Thanks, however on base of the name of this news organization it doesn't seem to be totally unbiased.

Oddly the name isn't a good indication of the way they report, it's the Christian Science Monitor not the Vatican Newsletter or the Southern Baptist Listen-To-Us-Or-You're-Going-To-Hell email circular.

As BM noted it's usually rather boring and dry reporting, but it's hard to discern bias in the news articles, I haven't read the editorials on the site so maybe there is some bias in those.

The Economist is my favourite news source. If you read the comments on there they seem to get bitched at from both sides about equally so they are probably doing something right!