Can Liberals still deny that the media is a left-wing orginization?

Question

OK, I, know the Liberals already know this, but many people on here, myself included, call the media a “Liberal” organization (except for some, such as FOX News, which is more Conservative in nature). However, Liberals vehemently deny this, saying that the news outlets are completely unbiased.

Well, I caught them in the act. The 60 Minutes reporter last night was trying out some of his Liberal left-wing spin out, and he got caught red handed. He was interviewing a member of the Kurds, a minority group in Iraq. The interview went like this:

--Kurd: Our lives are better now that Saddam is out of power
--Reporter: So, you are thankful for the U.S. INVASION OF IRAQ? (CAPS mine)
--Kurd: It was no invasion! It was Liberation! The U.S. saved our people!

These people were being treated so harshly under Saddam, and they are finally free of his murderous rule, thanks to the US, and this stupid reporter has the tenacity to pull some spin on this guy who may in fact owe his LIFE to the US Liberation of Iraq!

How funny, that a foreigner can identify and correct the spin in our left-wing press, but we cannot!

What do you make of this?

Answer 1

Thanks for catching that, both the Kurd's answer and the ousting of the MSM, puts a smile on my face!

"Freedom!"

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Answer 2

Newsbusters? You might take a look at the biases of your own sources there, before you trust them to comment on others :) Still, this is a bit more thought than is typically put into a "the media is biased" question, so I'll bite. MSNBC and NPR make no bones about their left-wing bias - they're basically the left's equivalent of FOX and talk radio. As for NBC (as well as ABC and CBS), they're prime-time television news. Prime-time TV doesn't have a liberal or conservative bias; they have an idiocy bias. That Palin story was likely followed up with a fluff piece about a waterskiing squirrel, 15 minutes of someone reading the weather, and perhaps a piece on the Kardashians. Those shows cater to people who aren't really interested in news at all - they just want a brief spot of entertainment, and they tend to like celebrities, cute things, and scary stories. So really, you've got a couple of people who are biased toward the left (and are very up-front about that), a couple who are biased toward the right, and many, many sources that aren't biased toward the left OR the right - but which may be aimed toward people with deeper or shallower interests in news. I've always used the rule of thumb that if you're WATCHING (as opposed to READING) your news, you've already put yourself in the demographic of people with limited attention spans, so you shouldn't expect much out of your sources.

Answer 3

When places like the NY Times have the chance to be patriotic and NOT publish one of the secret ways we are fighting terror, and they go ahead and publish it anyway just because they hate Bush and want Iraq to fail.

You can see the liberal bias rear its ugly head in MANY ways many times. For instance have you EVER heard one of those networks say ANYTHING good about Bush? No, its always the story that he cant do anything right, he lied, he misled, maybe even blew up the trade centers himself. A truly objective news source would point out both what he has done well and done wrong, not just demonize him like the left does.

I dont mind people having bias or even a little color. But what I do mind is when they try to cloak what they are, send the message at the same time that they are independent, objective, authoritative, and people that dont share their views should be silenced or discredited. That is why on liberal radio shows like Diane Rhiem Ive maybe heard 1-2 conservative voices per year. Sorry but I want to hear BOTH sides, not just 1 and that is what makes places like FOXnews great is because they give both sides a fair hearing which is even more dangerous to libs than merely having a conservative bias.

Answer 4

I don't know what most people are referring to.. but when I say that Fox is biased.. it's not the interviews I'm talking about. I expect for personal bias to be a factor.. especially in interviews.. but the actual reporting of the news even has a right slant on Fox.. it's the phrasing for certain things and the stories that are chosen. Maybe other media outlets are slanted further left than I think they are.. and i just don't notice because of the view from my stances... but there is no denying that you can watch Fox and then some other station and get two completely different takes on the exact same stories.

Answer 5

Liberals look at opinion like fact. When a Liberal media person tells a lie, like Dan Rather's, they get a pass because "everyone knows it was really correct." Then when a so-called Conservative outlet like the Washington Times, New York Post, or Fox gives an opinion piece which is conservative, the Liberals decry it as Bias. It is because they can't separate Opinions and Facts.
In fact, Ann Coulter has documented lots of Liberal Media bias.

Answer 6

Good for that Kurd! I would have liked to see that.

Of course there is bias:
For close to 50 years the news in America was controlled by ABC, NBC and CBS. In the last 20 years CNN came on to the scene. This is pretty much comparable to the BBC in Europe and AL Jazzera in the Arab world today. It was in the last 6 years when Fox News and other cable news networks were born to give a more balanced approach to news analysis. However, if you look at the major networks today, they are still run by the left. Tim Russert, the President of NBC News, at one time worked for Mario Cuomo. The top players at ABC News are Peter Jennings, George Stephanopolous, Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts- hardly conservatives. Lets not forget the statement the President of ABC News made after September 11th. CBS News has Dan Rather and Bob Schieffer- more non-conservatives. All you have to say about CNN is that it was created by Ted Turner. In print media there is the Los Angeles Times in California, The New York Times in New York and The Atlanta Journal Constitution in Georgia. These have been the major newspapers in our most populous cities for many years and their reporting has a liberal bias

Answer 7

Exactly. All you hear on most news stations is how many people died today in Iraq yet never pointing out the good that we have done over there. I quit watching the main cable news stations and only watch Fox news because they tell the facts. Although they are seen as more conservative, they still have liberal guests on a daily basis and allow each side to debate current issues allowing the viewer to form their own opinion. Instead of twisting words to form public opinion, fox news investigates and pulls out important facts on current events. They don't try and convince everybody of one thing. Why can't more people see this???

Answer 8

Yes. For instance, one could argue that since the interview in question wasn't simply cut from the show, but actually made it onto the air, that the service in question was unbiased - or even showing a pro-war bias.

Answer 9

Left wing organization? Last time I checked the media was made up of independent businesses. 60 Minutes has always leaned to the left but the vast majority of our so called news providers have been bought out by conservative conglomerates. Bush even put a neocon in charge of NPR and the change in content is obvious.

Answer 10

You can see this example on a daily basis... It is great though that the foreigner caught it and corrected him. The reporter probably thought he would be too stupid to catch it. It's nice when outside people who live in that climate set these bozo's straight.

and who cares if the exchange was edited... the fact that biased reporter tried to pull that off is enough to ruin his credibility... and the only reason it would have been edited is because it made him look like a fool.

Answer 11

liberation? liberated 655000 people from their earthly pains.

You my friend are a nazi sympathizer. Do you clap when you see the houses of Afghanis bombed through your tube?

By the way.... even if it were a "left wing" anything, it would not be an organization. You see, the media is owned by corporations. The media bias is PRO corporations. Not left or right.... just whatever is good for the corporation (more war, lower wages and privatized everything)....