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1) As the Media Research Center points out, it took the networks a week to even mention the 2nd most powerful Democrat-Durbin-equating Guantanamo Bay to Hitler's death camps and Pol Pot's genocidal reign of terror and they didn't even mention it until they had to because Durbin was publicly apologizing. (and CBS STILL didn't run the story!)

Then, when Carl Rove recently made a factually accurate characterization of the left's priorities after 9/11 (They DID place their priorities on the "rights" of the terrorists, They DID vehemently oppose the Patriot Act, they DID protest the toppling of Muslim terror-sponsors, and they DID often argue that America deserved it-OK, as liberal pundits even admitted, RIGHT after 9/11, liberals feigned patriotism just long enough to avoid being disowned by the mainstream, but they still reverted to their usual anti-American rhetoric), all three networks ran it as a front line story within HOURS of the speech!

"Nothing more needs to be said about the motives of the [media]!"



2) Here is a nauseating outrage from MSNBC's liberal propagandist (though advertised as an "objective journalist," not as an "opinion journalist" by MSNBC, like their conservative commentator, Joe Scarborough). This was taken straight from the MRC website:


MSNBC's Countdown, which didn't touch Senator **** Durbin's allegation until a night after his apology, but on Thursday immediately jumped on Karl Rove's criticism of how liberals reacted to the 9/11 attacks, delivered another round of invective on Friday night. Alison Stewart had filled in on Thursday for Keith Olbermann, but he was back Friday and brought aboard a psychiatrist to discuss actor Tom Cruise's attack on the profession. He snidely asked: "Any idea if Tom Cruise or Karl Rove might be hoping that they say something so outrageous about therapy that somebody who cares about them might try an intervention to force them into therapy?" Olbermann also worried: "Lastly, could Mr. Rove's references have been more damaging even than the Cruise interview because he essentially associated therapy with weakness?" Olbermann later brought aboard a 9/11 widow to denounce Rove as Olbermann castigated him for his "smugness" and ruminated: "I was living in the United States of America on 9/11 and the months of bipartisanship that followed it. Where in the heck do you suppose Karl Rove was at that time?"


Please, someone tell me how this is not flagrant media bias?



3) Newsweek is, by every measuring scale and by every method attempted, consistently rated as the very most biased left-wing publication in the "mainstream" American press. Here is what Evan Thomas of Newsweek said in relation to our tax dollars being used to perpetuate liberal propaganda on NPR:

Newsweek Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas wondered, on Inside Washington over the weekend, whether the effort in the U.S. House to reduce funding for NPR through the CPB would "make NPR a little less liberal?" An indignant Nina Totenberg of NPR retorted: "I don't think we're liberal to begin with and I think if you would listen, Evan, you would know that." Thomas countered that "I do listen to you and you're not that liberal, but you're a little bit liberal." Totenberg insisted, "I don't think that's a fair criticism...any more than you would say that Newsweek is liberal." To which Thomas conceded: "I think Newsweek is a little liberal."

quarterback7

I'm not 'liberal', but I will say that you are far off in your view of media bias. To question one's patriotism because they oppose the Patriot Act, (a legitimate political position) and say that the left is un-American, and the reaction to 9/11 was feigned, is as much bias as I've seen all day, to be honest.

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Pacridge

Interesting. Not true but interesting. I watch CBS and they most cetianly did "run" the story. The first time they ran the story he was quoted as saying he wouldn't appologize. Several days later they pointed out he did appologize and that contradicted what he orginally stated. Heres a link to the story on their web site.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/06/21/politics/main703383_page2.shtml

SouthernDemocrat

I would love for the Right Wingers who consistently “work the refs” by screaming liberal bias to produce even one independent study that found such widespread liberal bias. Not, anecdotal data, but an actual independent study that shows a liberal bias in the media. To my knowledge, one does not exist. In fact, every single study I have ever read on the matter seemed to find if anything a strong right wing bias in the opinionated media and a bias in the rest of the media towards citing right wing think tanks like CATO and the Heritage Foundation over liberal thing tanks.

Note: By independent study, I mean something like a University Study, not some bogus study released by the Fundie funded “Media Research Center”.

quarterback7

I agree. I see much more bias watching FOX than I ever do watching CBS. Screaming bias is one way the right tries to discredit harmful journalism. It's pretty obvious to any observer.

argexpat

Ah yes, the ol' "liberal bias" canard.

A few questions:

1. Is there such a thing as conservative media bias?

2. Is it bias per se that irks you, or just the supposed liberal kind?

3. Have you defined what you mean by “liberal,” “media” and “bias”?

4. Has it occurred to you that “the media” comprises scores of rich, powerful corporations spanning print, TV, radio (dominated by right-wing blowhards), film, and now the internet, who produce a product, which is sold in the capitalist free market?

5. If “the media” does indeed have a “liberal bias,” can you explain why the capitalist plutocrats who own these media corporations would want to promote a liberal agenda (increased regulation and taxes, stronger unions, curbing corporate power, etc.) which would seem to run contrary to their interests? Are they just stupid?

6. Is your evidence for this alleged liberal bias purely anecdotal, or can you prove systematic, institutionalized, industry-wide media bias?

7. Isn’t bias in the eye of the beholder, and thus ultimately unprovable? Fox News seems biased to me, but they claim to be fair and balanced---who's right?

8. Isn’t the charge of liberal bias simply unfounded claptrap meant to deflect justified and necessary criticism of the Republican party?

9. Isn't your charge of liberal bias simply a mindless parroting of Dittohead marching orders?

There is a liberal media, but the media is not liberal. Remember, "the media" is the corporate media. If you don't like it, you just don't like capitalism.

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teacher

Here is one I remember from long ago. Peter Jennings reporting. Today ultra right wing Conservative Newt Gingrich bla bla bla.....In other news Senator Ted Kennedy bla bla bla....Not Speaker of the House Newt....or....Ultra left wing liberal Ted. This is not biased how? Just the facts Mame.

Squawker

Book review for Bernard Goldbergs book, “Liberal Bias.” He is a Liberal reporter telling it like it is.
Source

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SouthernDemocrat

Bernard Goldberg is not a liberal, he is an avowed conservative. Moreover, much of his book was discredited.

Like I say, if there truely is bias, why do the right wingers not have one independent study to show the bias?

Squawker

That's interesting, I haven't heard that before -- do you have a link please?