Posted on 08/31/2002 12:51:29 PM PDT by NorCoGOP
In our country - with our technology - you can find any point of view which interests you; Left, Right, up, down, New Age, Biblical, etc.,etc.,etc. That's about as close to objective as human beings can achieve.
Can you cite one example of a Fox News reporter "biasing" a news story?
Hannity and Colmes are commentators, not reporters.
I repeat: Can you cite one example of a Fox News reporter "biasing" a news story?
FNC goes it alone among the news networks. Every other network, mainstream or cable, is blatantly, unapologetically LIBERAL.
And because Fox hasn't joined the club, that makes them CONSERVATIVE?
Sorry. I don't buy it.
Incidentally, could you please name the "conservative" counterparts on the other networks to these Fox News liberals:
Greta Van Susteren
Juan Williams
Mara Eliasson
ALAN COLMES (now that you mention it)
Geraldo Rivera
Let's see...ABC has George Will.
Shucks. Guess I'll have to get back to you when I can think of some more.
True, but to put a few conservative radio commentators and columnists and one cable network up against the vast reaches of the New York Times (and 1000 NYT wannabes throughout the country), Rather, Brokaw and Jennings as well as CNN and MSNBC and the many, many liberal TV commentators and colunminsts is absurd.
When the average TV viewer sees Dan Rather claiming that Bill Clinton is an honest man, a lot of those viewers are still unaware that Rather is a liberal of long standing and sees Clinton through that politically liberal filter. On the other hand, no one misunderstands that Rush Limbaugh is a conservative commentator.
The piece doesn't say you can't get another slant on the news, simply that the majority of the news and comment available is slanted liberal and also comes with a profit motive attached.
That's an honest representation of the facts and a few exceptions such as FOX and Rush Limbaugh make the liberal domination of the media even more noticable.
Every morning E D Hill blathers on and on about Saudi Arabia. She is an educated person but is clueless about the Saudi's. She knows what the folks who pay her want advanced so she carries on and on.
This same bias is evident in "My Word" Commentary. John is totaly anti Saudi biased and also clueless, even when flat out told by his guests he ignores what he heard.
They forget that if they were anywhere else, they wouldn't get to do the things that they do. Instead, they routinely bite the hand that feeds them. That's why you'll see such media idiocy as having the American media on the beaches of Somalia with floodlights on in order to broadcast the surprise landings of American marines going into Mogadishu.
Journalists first, Americans second.
-PJ
Say what? That's about as unbelievable a statement as I have ever heard.
Talk radio is dominated by conservatives. There are respected newspapers and magazines which are conservative. If your point is that conservative voices are drowned by the overwhelming blare of liberals, you're wrong.
If you're point is that many liberals cannot be reached, you're right. You can lead a horse to water... You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all the time....
The last time I looked most people grow up with their politics and their religion and die with them. It takes exceptional circumstances and exceptional people to change that. Fortunately, there are enough of them.
It's not easy to change basic political positions - nor should it be.
The author's view is, I believe, that the media constitute a group of like-minded people who are impelled to "do the right thing"...as they see it.
A "conspiracy" connotes plotting and scheming to "do the wrong thing". So far as the media is concerned, though, they are not conspiring, they are simply doing -- each in their own way -- what civic-minded people should be doing.
As if they were all Kiwanians building a ballpark for underprivileged children...
Personally, I believe this interpretation might be giving the media elite too much credit, but it's a valid construction.
But we have a conservative President. Reagan was elected not too long ago. Where do their voters get their news? It can't be too difficult to find conservative views.
Of course, you can always argue that Reagan was an anomaly, that what you usually get are RINO's of one flavor or another. But the Left has the same problem. That's the way our system works. It's not the fault of bias in the major media.
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