NPR's Liasson & Williams Back Gore on Right-Wing Media Control [B.S. is knee deep]

Media Research Center ^ | 12/2/02

[Paul Atreides]

I remember being stunned a few years ago, hearing the mainstream media attributing the drop in viewership and paper sales to the internet and lamenting the fact that the people having "too much information."

[klute]

How can Liasson and Williams be allowed to defend Gore on FOX, if FOX is really part of this conservative media conspiracy against him and other liberals? This doesn't make any sense.

EXACTLY! Can you imagine Dan Rather giving air time to Bernard Goldberg? No way, Jose.

[StopThePress]

There's another BIG difference nobody pointed out in any of these exchanges . . . Rush will not deny his allegiance. Everybody know the Wash. Times is slanted to the right. FOX can say they are "neutral" but it always seems to be tounge in cheek - they DO offer a liberal on the other side of each issue - but it usually is a wishy washy liberal.

The problem with the liberal media is THEY DEFINE "LIBERAL" AS MODERATE - which means you could never come to the conclusion that there is a liberal media. Donahue is a perfect example of it. When Donahue interviewed Andy Rooney, Rooney basically said "Come on Phil, you don't think there is a liberal bias in the media?" and Phil's reply had something to do with pro-abortion being a moderate stance...blah, blah, blah. The battle continues.

[archy]

oh well, if two non-biased NPR-ites say Albore is correct I guess that means we all owe him an apology.

Wait till they find out how many of those they've previously deemed *politically astute* have actually been moles undermining their efforts all along. Sure, they might have suspected a dozen or two, but they'd never guess that there are actually hundreds working against them from within.

[There, that oughta get them going. Now watch for the purges to begin....]

-archy-/-

[agitator]

ping

[leprechaun9]

Juan Williams is one of the monuments to the quota system of Affirmative Action. It is appropriate that he is a regular on NATIONAL PEOPLES RADIO!

He is the group that includes Bernard Shaw and Judy Woodruff!

[Verginius Rufus]

Does anyone know how The Weekly Standard's circulation figures compare to one of the liberal weeklies like The New Republic? It's ludicrous for Gore to pretend that The Washington Times or The Weekly Standard are major players in the world of the American media.

[driftless]

Unfortunately the fact is that the culture is till overwhelmingly liberal. Those eeeevil conservative organs like the Wash Times and a few others affect only a minute proportion of Americans as compared to left-wing collossi like the N.Y. Times, The Wash Post, network news, the education establishment, and the exceptionally liberal music, tv and movie industries. Conservatives have just recently gotten a toehold on the national stage after being kicked out of the theater for thirty plus years by the libs. Until Thomas Sowell is better known on campuses than Noam Chomsky, the charge of conservative bias is a risably false one.

[groanup]

I remember being stunned a few years ago, hearing the mainstream media attributing the drop in viewership and paper sales to the internet and lamenting the fact that the people having "too much information."

The mainstream media would rather address a bewildered herd than an informed and contemplative public.

[jackbill]

Juan Williams, who until recently hosted a talk show for NPR

Juan Williams. Just another liberal talk show host who couldn't make it. Follows in the long line - Jim Hightower, Mario Cuomo, et al.

[jackbill]

Juan Williams, who until recently hosted a talk show for NPR

Juan Williams. Just another liberal talk show host who couldn't make it. Follows in the long line - Jim Hightower, Mario Cuomo, et al.

[gocowboys]

Rock Chalk Jayhawk!

Let's consider the facts:

The Libs don't get the help of taxpayer funded spindoctors in the White House to write their stories and talking points anymore.

Instead of wishy-washy congress people, who are too PC to stand up for a principle with facts, the networks have been putting more articulate and resolute speakers and columist up who wipe out the liberal spin with reason.

The model for this success was a little watched but loyally followed and long-running/privately underwritten, show called Firing Line on PBS, with the unslayable Conservative William F. Buckley Jr.

The commercial success of this equation is what scares the s--t out of them - If this continues, they are sunk forever.

[Morgan's Raider]

...but it usually is a wishy washy liberal.

D'ya mean there's some other kind?

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

right-wing media control

That's really hilarious! Especially coming from NPR, one of the most left-wing outlets in America. After the recent elections, all they did for days was bitch and moan about how they lost, what they did wrong, etc etc.

They must be really desperate to try this tactic.

[JessicaDragonet]

I didn't need a psychiatrist to tell me that Gore is nutty as a fruitcake........all I had to do was watch his debates with Bush. Scary!!!

[Valin]

Gore claimed: “Fox News Network, the Washington Times, Rush Limbaugh -- there’s a bunch of them, and some of them are financed by wealthy ultra-conservative billionaires who make political deals with Republican administrations and the rest of the media.”

Plus: “Something will start at the Republican National Committee, inside the building, and it will explode the next day on the right-wing talk show network and on Fox News and in the newspapers which play this game, the Washington Times and others.”



All right, who talked? We have GOT to stop talking about the super-duper tippy top secret ultra extreme rightwing plot to take over the country.

[KC_Conspirator]

I did see the FOX News All Stars and its absolutely amazing how Mara and Juan reacted. And Juan should know better - he has been criticized by those on the left for not toeing the ideological line while he worked at the Washington Post and NPR.

[KC_Conspirator]

"Firing Line" was the best show PBS ever had covering politics. Tony Brown's Journal and To the Contrary are rabidly leftist.

BTW - My Jayhawks need some help, they had an awful NIT tournament.

[John Lenin]

Someone ask Mara how it was that during the 2000 election campaign that whatever Gores topic of the day was it just so happened to be the NPR topic for the day. When the left accuses the GOP of something and it makes a big stink you can be sure they are just diverting attention away from theirselves.