[jdm]

**Is the Mainstream Media Fair and Balanced?**

That question is rhetorical, I take it? :)

[samm1148]

Is there a "masters of the obvious" ping somewhere?

[rovenstinez]

Three times I've witnessed up close major news events, and NO, the reporters seem to get half of the story. Poor people who get accused by the media! I remember hearing the stories of people in New Orleans 'eating rats', after going 24 hours without food.

[phoenix0468]

I really don't need to read this longwinded article to get to the answer to that question.

[garbageseeker]

Nope

[WhiteGuy]

Is the Mainstream Media Fair and Balanced?


No, they're bought and paid for.

All of them.

[sionnsar]

Is the Mainstream Media Fair and Balanced?

I look forward to reading the article. But personal observation, starting with an incident and how it (wasn't) reported by the Seattle broadcast TV news media almost 15 years ago -- and in fact how they "Photoshopped" the incident to support a "favored" protest -- gives me the only answer I need to know: "The Mainstream Media IS ANYTHING BUT Fair and Balanced, and have not been for a long, long time."

I know a used-car salesman I trust (I happily drive a car I bought from him a few years back, when it wears out I'll be back to him, wherever he is working) FAR more than I trust *any* MSM journalist.

[Jim Noble]

There is a good book about Bush's religion by Paul Kengor, who went back to every word President Clinton spoke and found out that Clinton quoted scripture and mentioned God and Jesus Christ more than President Bush has. You would never get that from the mainstream media.

They never covered it because they knew he was lying.

[Brad from Tennessee]

As far back as 1973, when I was in the newspaper business in Florida, I met graduates of Columbia Journalism School and other esteemed institutions who told me since "true objectivity was impossible in journalism" it should simply be discarded. I, who went to junior college and a technical college, would argue that one had to strive for objectivity in journalism. It was a duty. I remember a few professionals who accomplished this. It is done by thoroughly examining both sides of an issue to the point that often the information conveyed by the finished product is in opposition to the reporter's personal views or biases. This is because he or she has bent over backwards to be fair. You still see this in print sometimes but it is rare.

[satchmodog9]

http://www.yahoo.com/s/135781/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060815/ap_on_re_mi_ea/lebanon_israel Look at that headline and you get your answer. The headline leads one to assume Israel fired rockets at the Hezzies. It was the hezzies who fired on Lebanon. Headlines are their stealthy bias.

[cardinal4]

Compare this with September 8, 2004, when Dan Rather reported on documents that he said showed not only that President Bush used preferential treatment to get into the Texas National Guard, but that he hadn't even done all his service. The very next morning, the whole story—because CBS put one of the documents on its Web site—was knocked down. It was knocked down because a blogger on a Web site called Little Green Footballs made a copy on his computer of the document that was supposedly made on a typewriter 30 years earlier and demonstrated that it was a fraud made on a modern computer.

Uh..not so, Fred, Rather was outed here by FR by the hallowed Buckhead..

[hardworking]

Is this a trick question of some kind? This question needs to be asked because...? Wow, it MUST be the dog days of summer!

[garyhope]

ROFL.

No, they actively hate America, their own country and government, especially George Bush who makes them apoplectic just thinking about him or hearing his name.

The so called MSM doesn't have a clue about any objective, realistic, pragmatic approach to the world and the dangers America faces in it.

I could go on and on.

There are 2 main dangers freedom, democracy, America and Western civilization face in the world today, Islam and leftism. I don't know if there's a dime's worth of difference between them. They're both controlling, self-righteous, intolerant, hypocritical, fascistic and oppressive. That's today's so called MSM.

[ChadGore]

I've always thought that the MSM being liberal is a function of demography, rather than malice.

They employ people young skulls full of mush and don't pay very well.

[ChadGore]

"I'll wind up on a positive note, however. Forty years ago, John Kenneth Galbraith—the great liberal Harvard economist—said that he knew conservatism was dead because it was bookless. Conservatives didn't publish books. And to some extent, it was true at the time. But it's no longer true. Conservatives have become such prolific writers and consumers of books that Random House and other publishing companies have started separate conservative imprints. Nowadays it is common to see two or three or four conservative books—some of them kind of trashy, but some of them very good—on the bestseller list. Insofar as books are an indication of how well conservatives are doing—at least in the publishing part of the media world—I would say they're doing quite well. They're not winning, but they're much better off than they were before—something that can't be said about how they are faring in the unfair and unbalanced mainstream media."

Thank you Ann.

[markomalley]

Is the MSM fair and balanced?

No

But thanks for asking!

[lawdude]

Does a hobby horse have a hickory dick?

One problem is that many pundits believe there are 2 sets of facts. One to support one view and another to support the other.

In reality, there is only one set of facts.

There are opinions that come from the facts but you cannot alter the facts to support that view.

And that is where the MSM fails miserably. In fact they go out of their way to generate facts (LIES and phoney pictures) to support their jaded and dishonest view.

[Tall_Texan]

Which conservative books do you consider trashy, Fred?

[flutters]

Is the Mainstream Media Fair and Balanced?

I think we might need a genius to tell us the answer. LOL

[Paleo Conservative]

I'd say they're fairly unbalanced.