Does the US media have a liberal bias?

**Norton** · 20-08-2008, 08:42 AM

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

Maybe, Norts, but I find most America media fauning over BO while doing OpEd jabs at McCain.

You probably have me at a disadvantage as you have many more media sources available than I. The only sources of mainstream televised media I have are CNN and BBC. Neither of which I consider completely unbiased on most issues. CNN is covering the campaigns in detail. I find the analysts and pundits particularly annoying. Hate it when I have just watched McCain or Obama make a speech and these "experts" all tell me what was meant by what I just heard. Problem is, they each have a biased spin in their interpretation which at times is completely unrelated to what was said.

In the US, I reckon you and others are subjected to a barrage of this nonsense. The media is guilty of trying to manufacture rather than report the news. Clearly they have way too much time to fill with their 24/7 coverage.

**Jet Gorgon** · 20-08-2008, 10:44 AM

^ You can always get the Economist online.

Mind, I like to watch the pundits rant on air. Good fodder with popcorn.

**Boon Mee** · 07-09-2008, 10:16 PM

Is it just me or do y'all think as I that CNN is suggesting something with this photo?

**zedhex** · 08-09-2008, 09:25 AM

What photo? I get just a little red 'X'.

**Boon Mee** · 09-09-2008, 01:40 AM

Well, there's hope. Two of the worst are out!

MSNBC is removing Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews as the anchors of live political events, bowing to growing criticism that they are too opinionated to be seen as neutral in the heat of the presidential campaign.

MSNBC Drops Olbermann, Matthews as News Anchors

**Jet Gorgon** · 09-09-2008, 06:53 AM

^ Well, they put Rachel Maddows in and she is worse than Olbermann, IMO. But, I agree than Olbermann is a pompous turd. Matthews is just another wet towel.

**Boon Mee** · 12-09-2008, 04:54 AM

Looks like Jesusland Reads! Amazon has a state-by-state map of what is selling better. Red, blue or purple political books. If I were BO, it's time to get worried...heh

Election 2008

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**raycarey** · 23-09-2008, 03:33 PM

the right always dig up this old chestnut about a media bias to motivate the base....and those who are able to remember back to previous bush campaigns in '92 and '04 realize this is simply theater.

case in point....

a reporter asked mccain about the connection between his campaign manager rick davis and fannie mae and freddie mac--and mccain responded that davis was no longer involved with the mortgage giants and that...

I’ll be glad to have his record examined by anybody who wants to look at it.”

so the NYT did take a look at the record of davis and fannie/freddie...and it turns out that davis was making $35,000/month from fannie/freddie. and what was he doing?.......nothing but working against regulation of the industry. and over the last five years, davis' firm pocketed nearly $2 million directly from fannie and freddie.

so when presented with this information ---that mccain himself essentially instigated---the mccain campaign attacked the NYT.

“Whatever the New York Times once was, it is today not by any standard a journalistic organization,” Schmidt said on a conference call. “It is a pro-Obama organization that every day attacks the McCain campaign, attacks Sen. McCain, attacks Gov. Palin and excuses Sen. Obama.”

and schmidt then went on to attack the obama campaign...but his attacks were full of misstatements and exaggerations.

Asked about the series of errors, McCain aides could not provide evidence to back up Schmidt’s assertions.

One McCain aide, Michael Goldfarb, said Politico was “quibbling with ridiculously small details when the basic things are completely right.”

Another, Brian Rogers, responded more directly:

“You are in the tank,” he e-mailed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/us...IA&oref=slogin
McCain's love-hate NYT relationship - Alexander Burns and Jim VandeHei - Politico.com
McCain camp criticism rife with errors - Ben Smith - Politico.com

**Norton** · 23-09-2008, 03:40 PM

Originally Posted by raycarey

“Whatever the New York Times once was, it is today not by any standard a journalistic organization,”

I didn't know Jettie was working in the McCain campaign team.

**Boon Mee** · 25-09-2008, 12:22 AM

Media tries to will the US into the age of Obamalot. "A free society cannot run this way. If information is power, those who control the information and its mainstream dissemination are in a position to act as the most important swing vote in any election."

And, here we have a textbook case in media bias. The Washington Post just essentially prints a release from a group called the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

**Jet Gorgon** · 25-09-2008, 04:35 AM

Originally Posted by raycarey

a reporter asked mccain about the connection between his campaign manager rick davis and fannie mae and freddie mac

Oops, you forgot to add Freddie and Fannie contributions to Obama's campaign there.

Originally Posted by Norton

Originally Posted by raycarey

“Whatever the New York Times once was, it is today not by any standard a journalistic organization,”

I didn't know Jettie was working in the McCain campaign team.

Undercover.

**Boon Mee** · 27-09-2008, 02:05 AM

Earlier this week the Lamestream Media threw a major tantrum when the McCain campaign tried to limit their access to Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s meetings with foreign officials.
Today, Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden met with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and completely excluded the press.
And not a peep from the mainstream media.

MILWAUKEE - Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden met with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili on Friday but didn’t let reporters in as the pair posed for photographers at the beginning of the session.
The decision to allow only photographers, and no reporters, into the meeting briefly at its start recalled a similar move by Biden’s Republican counterpart, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, earlier this week. Some of the reporters that cover Palin’s vice presidential campaign protested and got the restriction dropped.

**Jet Gorgon** · 28-09-2008, 02:30 PM

^ Fek, the press never get past the handshake stage.

**barbaro** · 28-09-2008, 02:42 PM

There are two posts noting the NY TIMES. (Actually form the McCain campaign.)

The NY TIMES, is one of the most over-rated newspapers I can think of, IMO.

The OP-Ed pages are awful, as well as the reporting in itself, after the Judith Miller, and Jason Blair incidences.

You can also go back to false, fake stories written in the 1980s.

Garbage.

**Jet Gorgon** · 28-09-2008, 02:59 PM

^ Sadly, the NYT is just a dish rag now. The opinions have swept through to the news reporting. But this is so in most rags today.

**Boon Mee** · 28-09-2008, 07:35 PM

"I hope to deal in part with the housing crisis part of it. The committee that I’ll be chairing has jurisdiction over housing. And we hope very much to do an increase in the housing stock, so that housing becomes affordable both for low income people but also for people in the moderate income range..." -- Barney Frank(D) [who thinks "leadership" is having a sexual relationship with Herb Moses]

http://sweetness-light.com/archive/barney-frank-on-housing-on-day-one

These people are shameless...

**Boon Mee** · 30-09-2008, 11:53 PM

"Off the record, every suspicion you have about MSM being in the tank for O is true. We have a team of 4 people going thru dumpsters in Alaska and 4 in arizona. Not a single one looking into Acorn, Ayers or Freddiemae. Editor refuses to publish anything that would jeopardize election for O, and betting you dollars to donuts same is true at NYT, others. People cheer when CNN or NBC run another Palin-mocking but raising any reasonable inquiry into obama is derided or flat out ignored. The fix is in, and its working." I asked permission to reprint without attribution and it was granted.

via Instapundit.com

**Boon Mee** · 02-10-2008, 02:52 PM

"Political Punch" Joins Obama Goon Squad-- Scrubs Conservative & Anti-Obama Comments!

ABC News Political Punch blog is deleting conservative and anti-Obama comments. I'll bet the usual suspects would like to do the same here, eh?

**spiff** · 02-10-2008, 03:28 PM

It is rather ironic that you should rely on partisan blogs to show a 'liberal' bias in the media, don't you think?

The last one can be dismissed straight away, it does not show why the post was deleted, just that it is no longer there. Nor does it show that "anti-Obama posts" are deleted.

You could have assessed the source yourself, instead of parroting the allegation and discredit your argument. But maybe if repeated often enough it will become 'true', eh? lol

**Boon Mee** · 05-10-2008, 09:34 PM

How they count "OVERWHELMING" It was in the script -- the show of hands was irrelevant

**Boon Mee** · 09-10-2008, 09:42 PM

Caution: Ignorant Gun-Hating Lamestream Media at Work!

"Newsweek put a 2002 photo of Sarah Palin holding a shotgun on its latest magazine cover. The editors are clearly trying to freak out their liberal readership.

But their latest PDS ploy is going to backfire. She looks fabulous and it’s a reminder that she isn’t just a conservative elitist who sits in a Manhattan office or in the ivory tower bloviating about the Second Amendment. She practices what she preaches:"

"The wonderful thing about the Palin effect is that it’s so effectively exposing MSM hatred and ignorance. Check out LA Times blogger Elizabeth Snead’s moronic comments about the Palin cover: “Hey, is that even the right way to hold a rifle? Can’t you shoot your foot off like that?”

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/09/caution-ignorant-gun-hating-msm-at-work/

Stupid foks can't even tell the difference between a rifle and a shotgun!

**Jet Gorgon** · 10-10-2008, 10:50 AM

^ Never saw that one, but did see this one.

**lom** · 10-10-2008, 10:54 AM

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Stupid foks can't even tell the difference between a rifle and a shotgun!

Aah, that very important peace of human knowledge.
What peasants they are

**spiff** · 10-10-2008, 10:55 AM

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Newsweek put a 2002 photo of Sarah Palin holding a shotgun on its latest magazine cover. The editors are clearly trying to freak out their liberal readership.

Yes, "clearly". LOL

**Fstop** · 10-10-2008, 11:30 AM

The liberal media will always be just that - liberal. They'll never side with a Republican candidate. Even when Biden made his mistake of mentioning FDR going on television after the 1929 stock market crash (Hoover was pres then, and tvs weren't even invented), Katie Couric kept the interview going along - no corrections at all. If Palin had done that, Couric would have eaten her for lunch. But because Biden is a democrat, he gets a pass.

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