Posted on 10/17/2009 8:00:04 PM PDT by Brandonmark
ST. PETERSBURG — More than 100 protesters marched outside the entrance to the main office of the St. Petersburg Times Saturday morning, accusing the newspaper and the media in general of biased reporting on conservative positions on issues such as health care reform and government spending.
Protesters carried signs that read "State Run Media," or "Take the Left From Your Slant" and "Journalism Malpractice — Just Report the Facts."
Protesters generally complained about media bias on national issues, accusing the "liberal media" of supporting the Obama administration on a variety of issues and then inaccurately portraying the political right as an unreasonable fringe.
"The press needs to be unbiased," said Joe Sekola, 48, of New Port Richey, an organizer of a group called the North Pinellas 9.12 Project. "You guys are the watchdogs."
Some protesters said the Times and other media supported big government, wasteful government spending and opposed tort reform.
"I think it's time for the country to go back to what the Founding Fathers wanted it to be — a republic and free," said George Hughes, 61, a longtime St. Petersburg resident now living in Arcadia.
Times executive editor Neil Brown said the newspaper hears similar complaints from the political right and left from time to time.
"They tend to be expressions of disappointment that our coverage hasn't lined up exactly with their own point of view," Brown said. "We recognize that often the most unpopular place to be is somewhere in the middle and we're comfortable with that.
"Most issues we cover are less black and white than some people believe. Our job is to explain that — even though some find that frustrating. Across the paper, in the news pages and the editorial pages, you'll find many diverse viewpoints represented. On balance, I think we're, well, pretty balanced."
no such thing as bad press...when you control the press.
These protests are needless and pointless. The conservative grassroots movement that has fueled the tea parties nation wide into millions has been done despite the socialist media. In addition, the socialist media’s ratings, on radio, TV and in print are declining. We don’t need them. These protests only serve to give them the attention they so desperately need.
"They're red...and they're round....
and they taste like the St. Petersburg Times."
I grew up in St Pete in the ‘60s. A lot of people had the bumper sticker “The St Pete Times is widely RED”.
This is VERY good to read. Now we are hitting back where it will help.
I was going to say that I initially thought this story was about protests in St. Petersburg, Russia, but then I realized that the SRM is just bringing the USSR to us. Perhaps we should rename the city in question Obamagrad?
Good work guys.
they really don't get it. they're certain that their vocation exists because we're not liberal enough. if they select the right stories and present them the right way, we'll all agree with them. they don't have bias. we do.
this is middle management at the re-education camps.
hence, c.s. lewis wrote, "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
The St. Pete Times is about as liberally biased a paper as you can find.
Unlike the N.Y. Times, they don’t just make things up but they sure slant EVERYTHING in favor of the liberal dems.
I’m sure I know the answer but did the station report this on their news coverage?
The answer is NO. No mention of any Media Protests - from anywhere!
"The press needs to be unbiased," said Joe Sekola, 48, of New Port Richey, an organizer of a group called the North Pinellas 9.12 Project. "You guys are the watchdogs."
. . . which is nothing more than a Associated Press Journalism talking point.The fact is that our beef is not with any particular AP journalism outlet, it is with monopoly AP journalism as a whole, and its nexus with the Democratic Party. And with the FCC and the FEC for laws/regulations they enforce which are predicated on the conceit that monopoly AP journalism is, or should be or even could be, objective. Here's a clue: anyone who claims to be objective marks themselves as hopelessly subjective.
Ahhhh, Cum’on.....Their motto is — Merely to tell the truth-—>>>> As THEY see it, and NEVER, as I have observed, The Whole Truth....
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