Why do all the conservatives cry "foul" about the "liberal media bias"?

Question

The media is not biased to the left. Its only been that way because of the current administration. The media's job is to report things, good and bad. The media does it. FOX News is horribly biased because they only show it from the right side and call the media in general biased while lying about themselves with the slogan "fair and balanced".

CNN has conservative talk show hosts who have the conservative point of view. FOX News only has that actor Colmes and is the only reputed "liberal" on that entire network.

Oh, and yes, I do watch FOX News, CNN, ABC News and the BBC.

Back in the Clinton administration, the media had a bit of a slant to the right. Even I could tell this and I WASN'T EVEN IN HIGH SCHOOL.

So all of you whining conservatives who call liberals "bleeding hearts", check yourself before you open your mouths...you are much more hypocritical than you think.

Answer 1

"Back in the Clinton administration, the media had a bit of a slant to the right. Even I could tell this and I WASN'T EVEN IN HIGH SCHOOL."

You pretty much answered your own question there. Its all a matter of who's in office and what the politics of the viewer are.

You'll get another chance to see just how far to the right the same news media can be in a mere 18 months. Let's talk then about media bias, mmkay?

Answer 2

Conservatives cry foul about the liberal media because the majority of these media outlets obviously have been and continue to have a leftist slant. It is similar to the liberals crying foul right now about talk radio being dominated by conservatives like Rush Limbaugh. The difference is that conservative talk radio does not try to hide their political viewpoints, whereas the major news outlets do not admit it. And, oh yeah, the conservatives are not the ones trying to censure people who have different viewpoints than them.

There have been top executives and insiders from CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, PBS, MSNBC, BBC, New York Times, etc... that have come forth at one time or another and given details about the tendency for liberal bias in reporting. Yes, these outlets will put a conservative voice on once in a while to try and give "both sides" and satisfy the people crying foul. But overall, to people who do not swear allegiance to either political party, the leftist slant is VERY obvious.

Yes, Fox News leans conservative, nobody questions that. Not even people on the right. This is the one channel (albeit cable) that has this slant and is why Fox dominates in the ratings. The liberal networks and channels divide up their audience because there are so many outlets to choose from. The conservative have Fox News, talk radio, and DrudgeReport.com. A small fraction of the overall media pie.

Survey after survey shows that the overall majority of journalists have liberal political viewpoints. In most cases (unless you are Dan Rather) they don't purposely TRY to color the news. But their liberal ideas seem normal to them, they are surrounded by other like minded individuals, and so they believe they are reporting mainstream, middle of the road viewpoints in their reporting.

Like anyone you are entitled to your own opinions, but it's probably not healty to be entitled to your own facts. Do a little research, and try to view things objectively rather than from whichever side of the aisle (in your case left) you are on.

Answer 3

The media is a corporate structure, now more than ever.
Liberal and conservative are irrelevant terms when it comes to media slant. Bias is towards advertising and promoting official sponsorship of the news.
That's the interest behind news, money. The bias is for whoever can buy the airtime. Like when Lockheed Martin runs ads on CNN, Monsanto on Fox, Chevron on NBC or the tea lobby on BBC.
Their involvement shapes the message.
And when news is about selling advertising, we get what sells. Serious discussion is dull, but watching one old white guy yell at another old white guy is entertainment. Ditto the endless hours of celebrity gossip. Don't even start me on the hiring of pretty but stupid models to read the news....ugh

If you take FoxNews to be ironic, it is quite entertaining, stupid, but entertaining. It`s like watching a circus.
Although is is kind of pathetic how Fox plays the victim card so often (I blame Bill Clinton somehow) .

Answer 4

There is no liberal bias in the media. Quite the opposite. As you have pointed out, there are plenty of conservative voices to be heard on the television. On the radio, conservative opinions are predominate. The American public much prefers the sound, intelligent, realistic, perspective of the conservative side to the shrill, negative, nonconstructive, divisive, agenda shouted at them by the liberal camp.

Answer 5

Because it's all about manipulating or spinning the media and partisan politics. It's not about legislators working together for the good of the American People, it's about Democrats vs Republicans and who can dig-up the most dirt to throw at the other side of the political aisle.

Answer 6

'Liberal bias' is the cry of a politician caught in wrong-doing...

remember this is the same media that crucified Bill Clinton over a sexual transgression, but chooses to leave George Bush's hideous manipulations and misrepresentations uncommented.

If anything, the media is skewed to the right of central, since that's the domain of the super-wealthy that we are being trained like obedient little puppies to worship and give free reign.

Answer 7

And in the words of the immortal Rodney King, "Can't we all just get along?"