Posted on 04/03/2005 1:11:31 PM PDT by minus_273
I thought it would be interesting to compile a list of prominent media personalities and show what party they belong to. I won't say if there is a liberal media, you can draw your own conclusions. This is just a list based on what I can verify. If know more, send me an email with proof. (email address is on my homepage)
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Just post a list of the conservative journalists, it will require ALOT less work and take up MUCH less bandwidth.
Pretty much correct-a-mundo on that observation! Much easier, too.
I don't think even the media denies that most journalists are liberals. They just claim it doesn't color their reporting, because they are so intelligent and committed to objectivity. Or some such BS.
If 90% of the MSM (old media) were conservatives who had voted for Bush, we would have the same problem......that is, the MSM (old media) would have a conservative bias to it. But we all know the political leanings of the MSM (old media), yet they continue to insist that they are objective. There is NO diversity of opinion or thought in the MSM (old media), and that's why they have gone the way of the dinosaur.
post a list of Lawyers who are members of the ACLU and then boycott them forever.
If you were to archive the Media Research Center's "resolving Door" column, you would see a constant spinning between people who work for Democrats and work for the media.
This guy can't be trying too hard if he forgets to list James Carville, Paul Begala and George Steponallofus.
If 90% of the MSM (old media) were conservatives who had voted for Bush, we would have the same problem
yes but my TV wouldn't smell like rotten fish anymore.
If 90% of the MSM (old media) were conservatives who had voted for Bush, we would have the same problem
yes but my TV wouldn't smell like rotten fish anymore.
On the "verified" list, Pat Buchanan is the only one who is neither a reporter nor a talk-show (co-)host.
When the white house brought in its first blogger, the media went to great lenghts not to mention his background, arguing it was irrelevent before it came out that he had worked for several democrats and worked on Deans campaign.
For this pervasiveness of the "liberal media", I can't think of one prominent liberal with his own show. I can't think of a prominent liberal that is a regular guest. I can think of a lot of centrist Democrats that echo the GOP on economic matters and only differ from their Republican counterparts on social issues. I can think of a lot of wobbly moderates who are passed off as "liberals" for purposes of "fairness and balance", but for the life of me, I just can't think of a prominent liberal who appears regularly in the "liberal media".
"The media"...blehhh...Nixon creation...it's "the press". 70+% of the media we consume is owned by one of six corporations. I'm just dying to hear what kind of pervasive populist message General Electric is pushing on me.
Who owns the media? Better yet, who controls what makes it into print, or on the air? It's not reporters, so I don't care if one hundred percent of them are flaming libbies: editors control what gets played, and 90% of editors identify themselves as conservatives.
Gawd forbid an actual liberal make it onto the airwaves and start talking about GE war profiteering on GE's dime.
Spouting "liberal media!" every time you encounter something that isn't Patriotically Correct is just Pavlovian type conditioning. Sometimes the facts are liberally biased. You are entitled to your own opinion of course, but you're not entitled to your own facts.
Not to pick at scabs, but the recent Terri $chiavo ordeal would tend to disprove the silliness of the "liberal media" BS.
$chiavo supporters were on the extreme right fringe, and the so called "liberal media" swallowed it's own polling to try and paint it as a "divided struggle" when 75+% of the country feels the same way, get the fark out of there. I can't think of anything in recent memory save 9-11 where more Americans of all stripes agreed on one thing, but the "liberal media" sat there and just echoed extreme right talking points and tried to paint it as an evenly divided philosophical difference. The "media" in this case was being the water boy for the extreme religious right who are out there on the fringes of discourse and are overwhelmingly rejected by most Americans, but if your only source was CNN you would think that it was a 50/50 struggle.
Do you ever actually READ TNR? There's more neocons on there than there is National Review.
Gawd I hate it when people pass off wingnut talking points as their own personal experience and comprehension. If you had actually bothered to read TNR for a while you sure as hell wouldn't be insinuating that they're "liberal".
What f-kin' pipe have you been smoking! I know folks in the industry and most editors, like most J-school graduates are good Democrats. I realize that you believe anyone who doesn't s-ck Michael Moore's d-ck is a "conservative" and that all those who work at "corporations" are "conservatives." Next your going to tell me that Hollywood and the media are run by conservative Christians.
You've spent WAY too much time in that college town you dwell in to believe that anyone involved in white collar work is a "conservative." You also fail to understand that conservatism and liberalism are largely defined by cultural and religious identity, rather than "economics" as the third-rate Marxists on campus would have you believe.
To All: We've seen the headlines "The Los Angeles Times" is reporting that every Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee plans to reject John Bolton’s nomination to be US ambassador to the United Nations."
Senator Richard Lugar is the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that will hold hearings on Bolton's nomination on April 7. We must bombard his office with requests that John Bolton be appointed as Ambassador to the United Nations. Our country needs honest men and so does the United Nations.
Please contact Senator Lugar here:
U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-6225
Majority Phone: (202) 224-4651
Minority Phone: (202) 224-3953
Senator Richard Lugar
306 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510-1401
Phone: (202) 224-4814
Fax: (202) 228-0360
The Democrats have two web-sites that I know of to keep John Bolton from gaining the appointment -
Ping
If you think of TNR as a bunch of "neo-cons", then you probably think Joseph Stalin was a moderate and John Kerry is a conservative.
TNR on foreign policy is sometimes hawkish, other times dovish, but on domestic policy, its straight liberal, and left wing without the conspiracy lunacy.
If you can't see the differance between TNR and National Review, you should consult a therapist.
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