Thread: Does the US media have a liberal bias?

^ This is exactly the sort of fear that I've alluded to in a previous post.
Right wing histrionics and acts of violence increasingly sparking copycat behaviour from the other side of the nutter aisle.
There are plenty of nutters to go around, you know. This one is a paranoid schizo.
Take your cues from the centre, where the sensible people reside. Fox and ilk is serving no one.

^
Well, the center is Colin Powell according to most informed sources, correct?



It seems the little people keep wanting to know what the government is up to...

The "mainstream" media must have tired itself out reinventing Jared Loughner as a Tea Party conservative. They didn't even bother trying to make Casey Brezik fit the template; instead they simply ignored it when he slashed the throat of a dean thinking it was the Governor of Missouri. Via American Thinker:

In September 2010 Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon was scheduled to speak at Penn Valley Community College in Kansas City.

At some point, wearing black clothes and a bullet-proof vest, 22 year-old Casey Brezik bolted out of a classroom, knife in hand, and slashed the throat of a dean. As he would later admit, he confused the dean with Nixon.

The story never left Kansas City. It is not hard to understand why. Knives lack the political sex appeal of guns, and even Keith Olbermann would have had a hard time turning Brezik into a Tea Partier.

Indeed, Brezik seems to have inhaled just about every noxious vapor in the left-wing miasma: environmental extremism, radical Islam, anti-capitalism, anti-Zionism and Christophobia, among others.

In his "About Me" box on Facebook, Brezik listed as his favorite quotation one from progressive poster boy, Che Guevara. The quote begins "Our every action is a battle cry against imperialism" and gets more belligerent from there.

On his wall postings, Brezik ranted, "How are we the radical(s) (left) to confront the NEW RIGHT, if we avoid confrontation all together?"

Like most on the Left, Brezik sides with Islam against Western Civilization:

In reference to an article about Terry Jones and his proposed Quran burning, Brezik posted on the day before his planned assault, "This is now a Holy war. Scriptures have been desecrated. War U can't handle. Make a choice and quick."

Unfortunately for Brezik, he won't be able to ignite a socialist revolution if his fellow lefties refuse to report his crime for fear it would expose liberalism as a sociopathic ideology.

Maybe we really do have a racist society. When a white guy goes berserk, the media grants him all the infamy he could ever desire. He doesn't even have to quote Ronald Reagan or refer to the Bible; "journalists" will spin him into a conservative no matter how much dishonesty is required.

Far Left Activist Slashes Throat of Man He Mistakes For Governor – Media Silent | The Gateway Pundit

Originally Posted by sabang

^ This is exactly the sort of fear that I've alluded to in a previous post.
Right wing histrionics and acts of violence increasingly sparking copycat behaviour from the other side of the nutter aisle.

For people who don't know sabang was being sarcastic, the little "blue man" signifies a sarcastic joke. We wouldn't want a joke to be mistaken for the truth. Carry on.

Idiot Maddow Reports Palin Invasion Spoof as Fact

The MSNBC host reported a bogus Palin spoof as fact last night on her show.
How pathetic...

The smug liberal sure thought she was being cute, didn’t she?
The Atlantic reported on the gaffe:

The Internet’s finest satirists hooked a big fish in the media world last night. In an embarrassing segment on her MSNBC show, Rachel Maddow slammed conservatives for attacking President Obama’s Egypt policies. Her targets included Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, former ambassador to the UN John Bolton and Stephenson Billings at ChristWire.org. Only problem is Stephenson Billings is not a real person. He’s a fictional byproduct of a website that also warns readers that the Xbox Kinect is a terrorist training tool and the Japanese have created scary robot babies which “threaten humanity.”
The article that caught Maddow’s eye called for an “American-led invasion” into Egypt and begged former Alaska governor Sarah Palin to lead the war cry.
“The escalating crisis in Egypt could become a defining moment for Sarah Palin,” Billings wrote. “Governor Palin needs to speak out publicly and forcibly for an American-led invasion to protect our interests in North Africa.”
In the following clip (which MSNBC scrubbed from its website) Maddow falls for the article hook, line and sinker.

Breitbart.tv

CNN.com Determined to Omit News That 66% of Americans Favor 'Cut, Cap and Tax' Imagine that...



For the second day in a row, CNN is doing its level best to avoid noting some interesting data from its latest poll that shows some 66 percent of voters favor the Republican-sponsored "Cut, Cap and Balance" plan.
The only mention of that fact on air is when guests bring it up and today the CNN.com website is casting the poll's results as evidence that while Obama is losing enthusiasm among liberal voters, that the public at large is skeptical of congressional Republicans.

CNN.com Determined to Omit News That 66% of Americans Favor 'Cut, Cap and Tax' | NewsBusters.org

If you're running against Obama you're on the losing side

NPR Devotes Over 4 Min. to Supposed Ethics Issues of Thomas, Scalia, Alito; Barely Touches on Kagan.” This is all about preparing a failure narrative for ObamaCare.

Liberal bias?

UCLA Professor: Without Liberal Media Bias the Average U.S. State Would Vote Like Texas or Tennessee

Ray Carey seen nodding in approval



What's wrong with voting like Texas or Tennessee, eh?

Latest example of Left Wing bias is the coverage of the Wall St. Protests.

Here we find a study that's found the Big Three TV Networks Have Devoted More Than Double The Coverage To Occupy Wall Street Than The Tea Party, 87% Has Been Positive.



The Big Three TV networks have devoted far more attention to Occupy Wall Street than they did to the tea party, according to a new study by the Washington-based Media Research Center. CBS, NBC and ABC reported a mere 13 times on the tea party throughout all of its first year, 2009. In contrast, they ran 33 stories or segments about Occupy within 11 days.So does the disparity in coverage mean Occupy is getting special treatment? Maybe, suggests the report. On CBS, NBC and ABC, most of the interview sound bites — 109 clips, or 87 percent — were from either protesters or supporters of Occupy, whereas only 6 percent were critical of the movement. Morning-show coverage has also been favorable, with seven guests expressing sympathy for protesters and none opposing or criticizing them. We don’t seem to remember the tea party getting such good press.


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Now here's a dilemma to ponder: If the media were full of monoasses instead of biasses, there would be no assholes, true... but the lack of assholes would ensure 100% of them would be full of shit.

Does the US media have a liberal bias?

Are they "liberal" or "conservative"; are they "left" or "right"?

What they ARE, and what bone mee is a poster child mind-kontrolled product of-- is they are REALLY GOOD at POLARIZING the population, misleading them, dividing them, by TRICKING THEM into viewing the principal conflict in the governance & direction of society as a question of LEFT vs RIGHT. The Powers That Be really don't care if a given slave identifies themselves as "LEFT" or "RIGHT", only that they pick one or the other, and then hate on "the other side" for being the source of all societal problems.

This divides the slaves and gets them expending their "political energies" fighting one another over matters which are of no consequence to TPTB ("divide & rule"), leaving TPTB free to reshape the world to their liking, without the inconvenience of public scrutiny or revolt-- the public, after all, has been tricked into focusing on, & expending their energies fighting the wrong "enemy"-- through an incessant barrage of "LEFT vs RIGHT" media propaganda.

HERE'S WHAT "THE MEDIA" (both "news" and "entertainment") PROUDLY IS - which is but a proxy for the financing/driving/steering force behind them- THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM (who we're supposed to be tricked into not scrutinizing and consequently revolting against).

Here is but one example of the result- notice the "broad spectrum" of media singing from the exact same song sheet here,

Heh...don't get yer panties in a twist there K. Hansum/

Just answer this one question for us will you?

Why are the Media portraying these COWS protests in a favorable light while denigrating the Tea Party, eh?

^ "media" coverage of OWS has been mixed from what I've seen- here's the modern-day Walter Cronkite, AKA Triumph the Insult Dog, on the streets interviewing OWS protesters:



Now tell me this Boon, have you seen this story covered on your "left vs right" US/Western media anywhere?



how about this story,



and what about this story?

9/11 and Israel: Alan Sabrosky’s Shocking Press TV Interview




In your "LEFT vs RIGHT" paradigm Boon, which "side" of that model accounts for "the media's" (both "left" AND "right") conspicuous omission of the above 3 stories??

Love this.

Originally Posted by HansuMan

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

What's wrong with voting like Texas or Tennessee

Becoming like them- they are amongst the lowest paid and most poorly educated states in the union.

Originally Posted by sabang

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

What's wrong with voting like Texas or Tennessee

Becoming like them- they are amongst the lowest paid and most poorly educated states in the union.

Not really.

Mississippi, Louisiana & Alabama have poorer education.

Originally Posted by HansuMan

^ "media" coverage of OWS has been mixed from what I've seen- here's the modern-day Walter Cronkite, AKA Triumph the Insult Dog, on the streets interviewing OWS protesters:



Now tell me this Boon, have you seen this story covered on your "left vs right" US/Western media anywhere?



how about this story,



and what about this story?

9/11 and Israel: Alan Sabrosky’s Shocking Press TV Interview




In your "LEFT vs RIGHT" paradigm Boon, which "side" of that model accounts for "the media's" (both "left" AND "right") conspicuous omission of the above 3 stories??

I'll give you another couple of examples you cannot argue with:

Here’s something interesting—Joe Biden, during a speech, was asked about Van Jones. Apparently Van Jones is trying to get these Wall Street protestors to start a revolution or something. This guy’s a self-avowed Communist. But Joe Biden, he said, “I don’t even know who Van Jones is.” Well, he was the “green jobs” czar in the Obama administration.

Well, it turns out, before Van Jones resigned—now this was in the middle of the night, one Saturday night, I think they did this purposely, to keep it out of the media, or downplay it—during that week, members of Congress had started saying, “What is this guy doing in the Obama administration?” Some were calling on him to resign. There was not one word of this during that prior week, not one word from The New York Times. So, if that’s where you got your news, The New York Times, you would not have known who Van Jones was when he finally had this dramatic resignation."


Material ripped from here

You do recall that lovely chap - Van Jones? If memory serves, it was Glenn Beck who was instrumental bringing that commie to light so we have Fox News to thank for that, eh?

He's not a commie, he's a Marxist!

He was being very quiet during his time in this administration. Now he resigned so no one would have to spend energy defending him.

Look what he's doing now.

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I think y'all should have left him alone instead of hounding him out of his other job.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

I'll give you another couple of examples you cannot argue with:
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hmm, fascinating.

But I missed your answer to the question at the end here,

Originally Posted by HansuMan

Now tell me this Boon, have you seen this story covered on your "left vs right" US/Western media anywhere?



how about this story,



and what about this story?

9/11 and Israel: Alan Sabrosky’s Shocking Press TV Interview




In your "LEFT vs RIGHT" paradigm Boon, which "side" of that model accounts for "the media's" (both "left" AND "right") conspicuous omission of the above 3 stories??

Granted, Geraldo & Judge Napolitano have expressed on air their sympathy for the questions surrounding the obvious/conclusive controlled demolition of WTC-7 on 9/11 afternoon (some call WTC-7 "the house of spooks") -- but that's rather scant attention on that "explosive" story, much less the other 2 blockbuster stories above-- whether coming from "the LEFT" or "the RIGHT" media, don't you think, Boon?!

so I'm still interested in your expert assesment:

In your "LEFT vs RIGHT" paradigm Boon, which "side" of that model accounts for "the media's" (both "left" AND "right") conspicuous omission of the above 3 stories??

Dozens and dozens of examples out there HM!

Just to reiterate

"During the morning and evening newscasts on ABC, CBS, and NBC in the first three
days since the Cain allegations from anonymous women broke...how many stories?
50

First three days after the Paula Jones scandal broke…how many stories?
1

First three days following Kathleen Willey's claims of being groped by Bill Clinton;
3

First three days after Juanita Broaddrick came forward to say Mr. Clinton raped her.
3

Powerful forces are at work to derail the candidacy of Herman Cain."

Indeed. Although Cain seems to have the sex scandals behind him you wonder what's next from the Lamestream Media, eh?

Data retrieved from here

60 Minutes Edits Out Obama Quote: “I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president

Yes indeed. No Liberal Bias here folks - move along.

60 Minutes Broadcast Edits Out Laughable Obama Claim as 4th Best President | NewsBusters.org

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

60 Minutes Edits Out Obama Quote: “I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president

Yes indeed. No Liberal Bias here folks - move along.

If the GOP believes that the US media has a liberal bias then why is the GOP so opposed to the reintroduction of the Fairness Doctrine?

Surely it would be an effective way to combat the liberal bias in the media?