Neuharth Panel Asks: "Is Media Fair?' (BARF-O-RAMA Alert! Judy Woodruff bashes Fox, & other laughs)

Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan ^ | September 26, 2003 | Randy Dockendorf

[Jabba the Nutt]

Curley admits that the media is biased to the left:

"While journalists are often accused of having a liberal bias, "most media are owned by Republican conservatives, so there is a healthy balance and tension" within the news operation, Curley said."

The ownership is balanced by the liberal media. Isn't this what Curley is saying? But the argument over bias has to do with the content of what the media say, which only the liberal reporters create.

And they wonder, why tens of millions of Americans don't believe a word out of the mainstream media. This is so bad, it could be parody.

[gaspar]

This sort of meeting is like a high school 25th reunion. Those who attend spend the few hours in a desperate attempt to convince themselves how successful they are.

[BabsC]

The lowest of the low.

I guess this is why they got on so well with their minders in Iraq and didn't report what was really going on. This could have been construed by them as the natural progression of government as defined by the Klintoon admin.

[Brian Allen]

Yep.

[martin_fierro]

Cheese'n'crackers, you've got my blood boiling already, and I haven't even had my first cuppa French FREEDOM roast.

[martin_fierro]

Who else found it hypocritical that in a forum organized to discuss Media Bias, and with all the resulting FNC-bashing ...

... no one bothered to invite a FNC representative for a little balance?

[raybbr]

...Now, we see the country pulling apart on Iraq."

Should read: "We are now pulling the country apart on Iraq."

[Cicero]

One more all-liberal "panel" of leftie reporters and limousine liberals whining about how the conservatives have all the money and all the influence. Oh, sure. That's why you see so many of them at these conferences.

[StriperSniper]

The ownership is balanced by the liberal media. Isn't this what Curley is saying?

Yup, they don't even feel the 'squish' when they step in it.

[Timesink]

The AP's Tom Curley is either totally mendacious or a fool, or likely both. His argument that most media is owned by conservatives is a smokescreen behind which liberals have hidden for years, and Curley knows it.

It can be easily proven that Curley is wrong, and one can certainly make an extremely persuasive argument that Curley KNOWS that he is lying. Why? Because the AP is itself a nonprofit organization - a COLLECTIVE, when you get right down to it (and gee, where do we usually see collectives?) - in which every "member" pays a certain amount of money per year to belong. Almost EVERY single daily newspaper and major news organization is a member, and almost all of them print or air AP material VERBATIM every single day.

If these so-called "conservative owners" were in any way meddling with the outflow of information from this newsrooms, that AP material would be ripped apart, altered, suppressed ... but nothing of the sort ever happens. Anything that goes out on the AP wire is treated as gospel, and aired/published almost instantaneously. Nobody, liberal or conservative, would even have the time to mess with the AP's information if they wanted to.

(Not that the vast majority of the owners are even conservative. Look at how many ultraliberal projects Viacom undertakes all the time, for example. And does anyone really think Michael Eisner is a Republican?)

[bert]

This piece clearly shows that  leftist bias permeates the American Media completely.

We chose to name our website fairpress.org because we perceive the media to be totally unfair.

The coming year is going to be hell for us that follow the subject closely. The leftist have only the lying media to prop up their pacifist claims of defeatism.

Cogito, ergo FReepum

CCRM is a Free Republic Network affiliate working to reduce media bias.

For a comprehensive overview of Freeper thoughts on Liberal Media bias, check out our website by clicking on graphic, or HERE: We call it Fairpress.org.

This thread is evidence that liberal bias is still with us. Come join our team and engage in the battle against the Liberal Media.

[Timesink]

Using that paradigm, anything besides communism appears to be "extreme" right wing. The way they so smugly sit there and state it like gospel makes my blood boil. It evaporates when I hear people who watch that crap agree with them out of ignorance.

Just remember that they were putting on their smug show in Middle of Freakin' Nowhere, South Dakota, and this article is from the tiny Yankton, SD local paper. (The only thing that's ever come out of Yankton, ironically, is Tom Brokaw.)

The only reason anyone knows about what these people did, outside of Yankton, is because someone emailed the article to Drudge and he linked to it. So the net result is 7,800 people or so in Yankton read the article (yup, I looked up the paper's circulation), and maybe half of them bought into it. But FIVE MILLION people, mostly conservatives, saw the article on Drudge (where the headline was "AP CEO: 'Most media are owned by Republican conservatives'...", and laughed out loud at these preening fools.

They lose, we win. They distort, we deride!

[Timesink]

bump for bump lists

[nightowl]

These blowhards are so critical of Fox News because FOX is wiping the floor with them all in the ratings. CNN is absolutely tanking. It makes me sick to hear these elitist talk about not trusting the government, when these media thugs are more corrupt than the government. I loved John F. Burns (NYT Foreign Correspondant) recent quote "There is corruption in our Business" & slammed reporters & news organizations for paying off the Iraqi regime & pandering to them and not telling the world the truth for the past decade. He said Saddam Hussein & his thugs were the worst in the world except maybe North Korea. I think he compared Hussein to Hitler somewhere in his remarks. I don't need these liberal media elites and their lies. The internet and our access to so many media outlets around the world has castrated these b**tards.

[stands2reason]

"The media enjoyed .... the greatest ["presidential"] plunge into depravity that ever happened," MacNeil said.

They enjoyed it so much.... Tell me again, which "mainsteam" Media Giant dug up this scandal and broke it with their brilliant investigative reporting-- NYT? NBC? Time? Mybe CNN---considering Judy's comment, "The tough questions have to be asked of political figures." I'm sure there was a representative of that Giant at this meeting. Wasn't there?

[nutmeg]

Wow, you were up early this morning!

I get SO many pings now, it seems to take forever to get through them all... I'm just finding this one now. Thank you... I'll ping the FoxFan list (finally)! :-)

[nutmeg]

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Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my FoxFan list. *Warning: This can be a high-volume ping list at times.

[Dutchgirl]

Neuharth was on hand for the event, which was broadcast live on South Dakota Public Television. Neuharth, a 1950 USD graduate, founded USA TODAY, the nation's largest daily newspaper. He also founded the Freedom Forum, dedicated to free speech, press and spirit. USD President Jim Abbott, who welcomed the audience, jokingly referred to the frenzy of activities surrounding Neuharth's return to campus. "I am president of the University of South Dakota, but after today's festivities, it could be called the University of Neuharth," Abbott said.

Are you sure this isn't the University of Southern North Dakota- at Hoople? Surely any minute now, we will hear from the prestigious "Edward PDQ Morrow" chair of Impartial Journalism...

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!