Why does the main stream media, Lay down in bed with the Left ?

Question

Many years ago, that was not the case.

Answer 1

good point! they are slanted to the left wing liberals causes! and this is bad for america!

Answer 2

Amazing. People answered who actually seem to think that the media is not slanted to the left.

If you want to know just how 'impartial' the news is - just ask an Iraq vet about whether what the news claims is what it is really like.

I spent a year in Iraq - and the news media is only covering the bad.

(I bet that the people who think that the media is not slanted to the left are not aware that Iraq has had an elected government for over a year.)

Answer 3

Please provide specific examples. I would argue that the exact opposite is the case, and that, while most journalists are personally on the left, the news industry as a whole is geared towards the interests of the capitalist owner-class, thus biasing it in general towards the right away from socialism.

Oh, and I'd also like examples of how the media has changed. The best examples I can think of of changing media roles in reference to government are the shift, starting in World War I, for the government to directly use media to shape the attitudes of the public in its favor (in that case, instilled unwarranted fear in the public to get it to actively join a war that most of the public originally opposed). See Walter Lippman for details. This is not so much a shift towards the left or right as it was a shift towards the government.

Answer 4

Because the people who make up the media -- the writers, editors, producers, anchors, etc. --- are overwhelmingly liberal themselves.

One reason for the shift is when journalism tried to become accepted as a "profession" in the sense that its practioneers were expected to have university degrees. Overtime, a job which has more in common with a trade such as carpentry and was made up of people from all walks of life has now become a career of mostly white men educated at liberal colleges (where they are taught by liberal educators) whose only experience with manual labor was working as a busboy at a resort for a summer.

Answer 5

MONEY... 1st Ratings and its the popular thing to do. Its like nothing our great President Bush does is every right. No matter what. Everyone likes Bill Clinton & Hilary. How great the great Loser Jimmy Carter is. Even John call me Jack for Short Kennedy. Whom was not in Office long enough to really have done anything except make his way thru the Cuban Misle crisis.

Answer 6

Lay down with the left??? Have you ever heard of the Wall Street Journal, or Fox News???

Answer 7

Do u know yr right from yr left? Sorry but it is truly not the case.
-cristal

Well, u saw something u didn't like on TV and so u make an outrageous statement to express some sort of validity to your lost point.
-cristine

Answer 8

B/c we are alot sexier. You just think this b/c you are probably ultra conservative, so stuff that is actually conservative looks liberal to you.