Just HOW left wing is the 'mainstream' MEDIA?

Question

MSNBC Newsroom Booed Bush State of the Union

http://media.newsbusters.org/stories/msnbc-newsroom-booed-bushs-state-union.html?q=blogs/mark-finkelstein/2007/08/16/msnbc-newsroom-booed-bushs-state-union

Top Seattle Times Editor Admits Majority of Newsroom Votes 'Blue,' Driven by 'Activism'

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2007/08/16/top-seattle-times-editor-admits-majority-newsroom-votes-blue-driven-act

Donation ratio appears to confirm leftward tilt in newsrooms --MSNBC

"MSNBC.com identified 144 journalists who made political contributions
from 2004 through the start of the 2008 campaign, according to the
public records of the Federal Election Commission. Most of the
newsroom checkbooks leaned to the left: 125 journalists gave to
Democrats and liberal causes. Only 17 gave to Republicans."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19113485/


Gee - I wonder why Fair & Balanced Fox is # 1 in the ratings?

(My 360 Blog poll: Who are bigger hypocrits - CONS or LIBS?)

Answer 1

hard to say for sure.

fox is #1 because they have the most viewers - lots of Liberals (me included) watch fox.
but I never watch hannity because I think he's a bastard

as for your blog - no thanks - I spoke up loud and hard answering a question of yours yesterday that you dared Liberals to answer saying we couldn't, and you ignored my answer !
All I could hear for your response was "crickets chirping"

Answer 2

Fox is #1 for the same reason Howard Stern was--entertainment value.

The majority of journalists are liberal. The majority of media outlet owners are conservative. The product varies--you can find mainstream news with a slight liberal or conservative slant that still maintains objectivity and doesn't really take sides. Compare the Washington Post and the Washington Times--both give you the facts, but the Post's articles are written more liberally than the Times'. But you'll get the facts from either paper--neither covers up what they don't like.

I guess I've only seen a Hannity & Colmes a few times, but it was utter cheese. Get a panel of three people, a republican, another republican who isn't a politician, and a democrat. It works best if the democrat isn't mainstream, but aligned even more to the left. Ask a question the republican can get going about--let him rant for a minute and a half. Ask the other republican for a "neutral insider's" assessment. Ask the liberal a question so jerky that it can't be answered straight--they have to call the host wrong, then start explaining, and get cut off for a commercial less than thirty seconds after they start talking. So then the viewers think the libs have nothing to say and Hannity sure zinged them! It's a bunch of stupid TV tricks. That's why liberals don't even bother with those shows anymore.

It would be like having republicans go on the Daily Show, but with everyone forgetting that it's all comedy and expecting Republicans to respect and answer questions like "why are so anti-child that you'd vote no on expanded health care for children?" He could have a great reason for voting no--but if you give someone thirty seconds to answer a question like that--it just isn't going to be real, all he has time for is to get upset over the anti-child thing, and start talking about the economics of health care for fifteen seconds before he gets cut off.

Answer 3

The media is not left wing.

The media is run by 99% jewish people so that should give you one idea.

Also, I don't think the media would be covering up 911 and supporting a pointless pre emptive and completely corrupt war with Iraq if they were peace and truth loving liberals.

The media answers to one thing and that's money.

Also, the republican administration deregulated the media allowing the 6 huge media companies to own even more media within a market so again the media support their money.

Answer 4

Yes most of the media does tilt left but they at least report with professionalism. Fox news as well as conservative radio uses insults, name calling, jokes and taunts against Democrats and the left instead of legitimate reasons.I would also say these left leaning channels are more fair and balanced. I mean at least CNN has Glenn Beck but what liberal hosts their own show on Fox? Fox gets better ratings because there is only one conservative leaning station. There are many liberally leaning stations so the viewers spread out between the stations. Therefore each station gets less viewers. Do not hide the trail of dirt that surrounds Fox News's past because it is much larger than that of MSNBC, CNN, NBC, ABC, PBS and CBS

Answer 5

While I agree that there is a lot of media partisan activity, suggesting that Fox news isn't doing the same thing for the "right wing" view point is idiotic and presumptuous arrogance.And by the tone of your question, that is exactly what you're trying to suggest.Try again.

Answer 6

If a nor east-er comes in the will blow clear of the left coast they lean so far to the left. They may not be found until rescue workers search the Indonesia coast. After the tsunami hits again there.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

The mainstream American media spews conservative misinformation every day.

Here is a non-profit website that provides OBJECTIVE EVIDENCE of the rightwing bias of the American media:

http://www.mediamatters.org

Answer 9

The whole country (78%) are against this war !!!

If you think a "news" agency (we'll call it that for YOUR sake)
that sues for the right to lie and change the story to fit the Republican agenda, is Fair and Balanced
then YOU belong in the Republican party

The Right to Lie in the "News"
If ever we needed to know why the biggest media consumers in the world are so badly informed, this pretty well tells it all. The Media Can Legally Lie.
According to Akre and Wilson, the station was initially very excited about the series. But within a week, Fox executives and their attorneys wanted the reporters to use statements from Monsanto representatives that the reporters knew were false and to make other revisions to the story that were in direct conflict with the facts.
Fox editors then tried to force Akre and Wilson to continue to produce the distorted story. When they refused and threatened to report Fox's actions to the FCC, they were both fired.
Akre and Wilson sued the Fox station and on August 18, 2000, a Florida jury unanimously decided that Akre was wrongfully fired by Fox Television when she refused to broadcast (in the jury's words) “a false, distorted or slanted story” about the widespread use of BGH in dairy cows.
[...] FOX appealed the case, and on February 14, 2003 the Florida Second District Court of Appeals unanimously overturned the settlement awarded to Akre. The Court held that Akre’s threat to report the station’s actions to the FCC did not deserve protection under Florida’s whistle blower statute, because Florida’s whistle blower law states that an employer must violate an adopted “law, rule, or regulation."
In a stunningly narrow interpretation of FCC rules, the Florida Appeals court claimed that the FCC policy against falsification of the news does not rise to the level of a "law, rule, or regulation," it was simply a "policy." Therefore, it is up to the station whether or not it wants to report honestly.
During their appeal, FOX asserted that there are no written rules against distorting news in the media. They argued that, under the First Amendment, broadcasters have the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on public airwaves.
Fox attorneys did not dispute Akre’s claim that they pressured her to broadcast a false story, they simply maintained that it was their right to do so.
OK, pick your jaw up off the floor. That some court thinks they CAN is bad enough, that these people assert their right to do so pretty well kicks it all down the hole. And these guys wonder why their credibility is in the toilet and the net is burning them left right and centre.
Oh, and February 2003, 30 days before Iraq.

Answer 10

It shows exactly who is sitting in front of the TV. Looks like the Republicans win that one.

Answer 11

That could be called Tibet, its one of the few things left of China, how's that for left.