Liberal media bias? Do you see it?

Question

This is a very interesting study done by Harvard. Not only has the media been shown to favor liberals, but Fox News was not found to be as conservative as MSNBC.
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=278808786575124

What do you think about this?

Thanks Truth Seeker . . . .so what do you think about the Harvard study?

Answer 1

That's one thing liberals have control over, and they still cry about the success of Republicans on the radio.

Answer 2

I doubt that you actually want proof but I'll take a few minutes to point out the obvious. There are several kinds of bias. 1. One kind is to favor one side over the other. The Liberal Media will always favor the Liberal position over a Conservative position and never provide a balanced or unbiased position. 2. Another kind of bias to to denigrate one side and not the other. The Liberal Media will always attack Conservative positions and never attack a Liberal position. The basic problem with these kinds of bias issues is that the news is (or should be) neutral. News agencies should give the news and not spin it to support their political agenda. Evidence that a bias exists can bee seen in two situations. First: Talk Radio is primarily Conservative. That's what the audience wants and will support in a free market. Talk Radio gives the news that the Liberal Media will never present to the public. Second: Liberal media is failing. Air America was about hate and that's not what America is about. NBC, CBS, PBS, ABC The New York Times and the LA Times are all loosing audience. Americans are tired of having these 'Superior' people decide what is news and are looking to other sources. You can see documented evidence of bias at the site noted below.

Answer 3

Gee, when Valerie Plame was doing the circuit, promoting her new book and living the life of a democratic activist, the liberal media was licking her feet (the same media who dismissed Hillary stealing 900 FBI files & dozens of crimes by the Clintons). Plame got NO hard questions, just adoration and love from the heavily biased media- CNN, CBS, ABC and NBC. No one asked about her admin job; no one asked what she was going to do with the millions from her book and promotional deals; no one asked about her husband being a democratic activist- nope. Valerie played the victim, kind of like Anita Hill, another "victim" who made a career as a schill for socialists and their media.

Could the Clinton's pull off the charade of their phony marriage without the assistance of the liberal media? All the phony "ops" showing them in love, when a camera happens to be pointed at them.... please. Walter Cronkite is a BIG time liberal and democrat activist; Dan Rather admitted his extreme bias during the Nixon era; funny, when the Clintons abused power twice as bad as Nixon, Rather said it was no big deal.

Fox is far more conservative than all the others BUT the major difference, they do allow liberal viewpoints and they do have many liberals on air- Gretta, Geraldo, Allen Combs and many others. There ain't a one conservative allowed to speak on CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, etc.

Answer 4

This isn't a problem unless the television watchers are gullible.

Oh yeah...

Ok so it's a problem.

Howabout, and this is just my opinion, we learn to NOT CARE what the opinions of the media is and just work on evolving our own. If you care so much about the political-leaning of the media then don't watch television and shut up. Watching TV and the various shows is VOLUNTARY. That's why it's called a remote CONTROL.

Answer 5

No, I see the same free market driven media as always.
Advertising dollars is what determines the media content.
It always has.

The study you have linked to shows a direct correlation to President Bush and The Republican Administrations approval ratings,
No mystery then why the media stories reflect roughly the same 30% favorable Republican stories.

If the media was truly liberal, we would see the effects of war and casualties, in photos and on TV. We do not.

Answer 6

It seems liberal because only depressing, heart wrenching things make the news. Only the general public is to blame as we perpetuate this because we wont buy newspapers or watch the news if we didn't want to be stimulated by "bad news"

I mean who doesn't want to know when there is a local murder or a forest fire.

The media crucified Clinton when he had his hand in the cookie jar

Answer 7

Back slid'n all the way up the hill G Bush?
"History teaches us that underestimating the words of evil, ambitious men is a terrible mistake," Bush said. "Bin Laden and his terrorist allies have made their intentions as clear as Lenin and Hitler before them. And the question is, will we listen?"


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071101/ap_o...


If I am not mistaken, Bin Laden is not a threat to the US. So why on earth would G Bush use him like this?


Just goes to show how much this man is a lier!

Somebody prove me wrong please, come on cons rep, answer the question...

Did he just not lie to the world? To his country? To his fellow man?

Yes or No?

If War Denial is dangerous, then Bin Laden must be a threat! It would be nice if this so called man made up his mind for the better of our troops!

Sorry Bas;lkj;

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApTO.2oRecZ_GY0sB6b3LATQ7BR.;_ylv=3?qid=20071101150937AAd7Fuc

I posted a question on yahoo Q/A form and figured this would be some great ammo vs G Bush.


Sending it to you if you want to use it, feel free.

Answer 8

The next thing you will see is that Dems will be pointing out that GWB got his MBA from Harvard....Oops I guess I did that for them.

LOL

Answer 9

Of course the Democrats are favored. The republican candidates are all either morons who believe in ancient fairy tails about gods creating man out of mud or they are ornery self-promoters like Giuliani. Who would favor them???

Seriously, though, studies like this are themselve biased by nature. Who is determining whether reporting is "positive" or "negative". Are objective criteria being used? Who knows!

I remember the study done last year - probably by one of these guys- that said that NPR had mostly liberal people on it. Well in that study, they categorized people as liberal or conservative based only on whether ot not they criticized or praised the President. Even if a staunchly concervative person criticized the President he was classified as "liberal" in that study.

It is funny how you cons bash academics all the time but you salivate if one of them publishes something that agrees with your own POV.

Answer 10

IT DOESN'T TAKE A ROCKET SCIENTIST TO FIGURE THIS OUT. ONCE AGAIN SOME OF THE PEOPLE HERE
ATTACK THE SOURCE RATHER THAN ADMIT TO THE TRUTH.

Answer 11

Good link. I can't wait to see the responses it generates.