Why do liberals need EVERY media outlet in their favor?

Question

Do they fear that if the conservative view gets out, they won't get votes?

I know you will say that major networks are run by conservatives... but that argument aside, most news networks are LIBERAL for whatever reason with the exception of foxnews. In addition, most large newspapers are liberal (NY Times, Wash Post). Why do liberals need radio too? Do they just want to saturate Americans with ideas that make no sense and have no practical uses?

Can they not handle the 'threat' of proper conservative views getting out along with theirs?

Answer 1

What's so funny is that there have been left-leaning radio shows. BUT noone wanted to hear it! I think that if people want to listen to conservative shows then they will and if they want liberal radios shows then they'll listen to those. There should be no government intervention on this matter! Otherwise we'll only hear what they (be it the left or the right) want us to hear at any given moment! Obviously the people want to hear all the conservatives or they wouldn't have such successful shows, They wouldn't have book deals, concerts, tv shows, etc etc etc. The government needs to stay out of everyone's lives as much as possible. I don't know about the rest of you but the time of having someone tell me what shows to watch or listen to ended when I turned 18 and my mom and dad left me to my own devices. i don't need or want someone in Washington deciding what is good for me!

Answer 2

You call some news stations liberal because they might point out some of the flaws in our leaders. It's our duty as Americans to seek the truth, and not just follow along like sheep and never question. Some of your Fox News guys would follow Bush all the wasy to fascism if there were no dissent. I don't see any liberal news network, but Comedy Central and MTV I'd say are lib.

C-Span is surely the least biased because you can sit and listen to sessions of Congress and see purely what they are saying. You then have to ask yourself are they being sincere.

How about adding up all the right wing radio shows and the right wing fanatic preachers on the radio, then if radio counts as media, conservatives outnumber liberals by far.

Answer 3

Talk radio is 88% conservative. And their talking points are parroted by the rest of the media. Newspapers have endorsed more republican presidential candidates in every election since FDR in all but two (Carter & the 2nd Clinton). The TV media as you mentioned is owned by conservative corporations. CBS, NBC, ABC , CNN, MSNBC have made an effort to be fair and balanced. FOX is overwhelmingly conservative. So....where is this liberal media? I notice you never mentioned Chicago Tribune or Wall Street Journal.

Answer 4

The problem is that Media outlets should not be in any ones favor. The editorial page is the only place where favoritism should appear and then only sparingly. New should be fair and balanced.

I agree the Times and Washington Post do not do so. But their mistake does not give FOX news and the New York Post the right to make errors in the other direction. or are you saying that two wrongs make the RIGHT?

Answer 5

Maybe because the news media (apart from the foreign-owned Foxgau) reflect the American Society. Maybe you folks over on the Right need to unplug your ears and listen to the noise, for it is the noise of righteous indignation coming to put things aright. You've destabilized America, divided the house, and started the real American Civil War. Don't be too upset when it turns hot, for surely it will as the people realize more and more that America's wealth has been squandered and its children killed for the personal aggrandizement of Bush and his cronies. The resultant upheaval will make the unrest of the 1970's an idyllic memory.

Answer 6

they do not need radio too they have that as well. Nobody listens to it though.



In December 2003, three months after he was elected chairman, Mr. Tomlinson sent Ms. Mitchell of PBS a letter outlining his concerns. " 'Now With Bill Moyers' does not contain anything approaching the balance the law requires for public broadcasting," he wrote.

Shortly after, Mr. Tomlinson hired a consultant to review Mr. Moyers's program; one three-month contract cost $10,000. The reports Mr. Tomlinson saw placed the program's guests in categories like "anti-Bush," "anti-business" and "anti-Tom DeLay," referring to the House majority leader, corporation officials said. The reports found the guests were overwhelmingly anti-Bush, a conclusion Mr. Moyers disputed.

the Anti Rush guy is LMFAO and it is a fat A as well The New york Times Is a Liberal rag He does Not read it.

Answer 7

Well conservatives do tend to go by what their T.V. tells them to do instead of doing their homework and making up their own minds.

But to answer your first question, no, but wouldn't it be refreshing if there was just one fair and balanced T.V.news channel?

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Answer 8

Clearly, this is simply not true.

The most obvious evidence that the media is overwhelmingly conservative is the fierce opposition Republicans have to the Fairness Doctrine.

After all, if the media really was liberal, the fairness doctrine would be good for conseratives. So their objections to it tell us that even they know that the media is actually quite conservative.

Answer 9

The concept of a liberal media is a myth that is simply parroted by people who cannot accept that reality does not fit in with their narrow world view.

Answer 10

Because the loudest voices of tolerance are often the most intolerant