The Liberal Media

Major Enigma · 10-06-08, 04:50 PM

Can someone explain to me when corporate America became liberal?
NBC (and all its many affiliates) is owned by GE. A large defense contractor. Selling war puts money in their pocket. Why would they promote peace, taxes, and regulation?

Summerwind · 10-06-08, 04:53 PM

So you would have something to be enigmatic about?

winston53660 · 10-06-08, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Major Enigma

Can someone explain to me when corporate America became liberal?
NBC (and all its many affiliates) is owned by GE. A large defense contractor. Selling war puts money in their pocket. Why would they promote peace, taxes, and regulation?

Taxes pay for the defense spending regulation makes sure the media does not ask questions about this and that.

Major Enigma · 10-06-08, 05:09 PM

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Taxes pay for the defense spending regulation makes sure the media does not ask questions about this and that.

Taxes? Borrowing pays for wars. Its times of peace and prosperity that repay the debts.
You mean those regulations kept the media from asking if any of the BS coming out of Washington DC was true? Or was it profits that kept them broadcasting the propaganda? You do know they were paid by the White House to air stories they knew were false? That's called "propaganda".

DAR · 10-09-08, 08:55 PM

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Can someone explain to me when corporate America became liberal?

When commentators and entertainers with close ties to conservative and/or Republican party agendas need to appear as the lone beacons of Truth in an inherently biased media circus, they play the liberal media card. They've played that card so long and so loudly that to the consumers of their crap, the liberal media myth has come to be regarded as Truth. The liberal media myth card also gives those entertainers carte blanche to stoop to name calling, parodies, ad hominem attacks and blatant, obnoxious partisan drivel. Sometimes their crap is really clever, or even hilarious. But when I hear those keywords--"liberal media"--I remind myself that I'm probably being entertained more than informed.

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NBC (and all its many affiliates) is owned by GE. A large defense contractor. Selling war puts money in their pocket. Why would they promote peace, taxes, and regulation?

As I've said in other posts--and I think you're onto the same notion--is that commercial news sources are driven by ratings. Ratings are what drives the price of advertising, and advertisers pay the bills. In order to achieve ratings, commercial media sources offer a vast array of political biases (often disguised as news), as well as plunging necklines, short skirts, undue sensationalism, unwarranted skepticism, and really pretty, plastic-y looking "journalists." Whatever it takes to get the most viewers to see your ad is what the commercial media will deliver, because at the end of the day, their shareholders expect some RoI, baby...

Regards,
DAR

Kayleigh Katz · 10-09-08, 09:56 PM

I don't think the media is liberal or conservative, I think it's a business and like any good business it's giving it's customers what they want. Look at the kinds of "news stories" they publish and the patterns they use to work a story (to death). Theres the fearmongering story, the ad disguised as a story, the whackjob that says outrageous things story, the celebrity story (because anything they do is newsworthy), the media analyzing the media or "Have we gone too far in our coverage" story, and of course anything involving a missing white girl or a plane crash.

It's about keeping people glued to their favored media sources for the next sensational story so they'll see lots of advertisements for crap they don't need but can't resist buying. It's not a right or left wing conspiracy to dis your candidate, it's a business and business is good.

new coup for you · 10-09-08, 10:43 PM

The media isn't monolithic. The television media leans left (with notable exceptions) the radio media is completely conservative and the internet is pretty divided. The print media is very liberal but it doesn't matter because only liberals read newspapers anyway.

Which is how I came to conclusion about why the "liberal media" is inherently less biased then the right media: having your news shouted at you on your drive to work is just fundamentally more brainwashing then reading it quietly at your own leisure. Additionally, the hyperbolic tone of right-wing radio media is so insane it completely dwarfs the slant of print media.

Sir Loin · 10-09-08, 11:08 PM

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The media isn't monolithic. The television media leans left (with notable exceptions) the radio media is completely conservative and the internet is pretty divided. The print media is very liberal but it doesn't matter because only liberals read newspapers anyway.

Which is how I came to conclusion about why the "liberal media" is inherently less biased then the right media: having your news shouted at you on your drive to work is just fundamentally more brainwashing then reading it quietly at your own leisure. Additionally, the hyperbolic tone of right-wing radio media is so insane it completely dwarfs the slant of print media.

Seems more like you came to your conclusions after a good bong hit.

new coup for you · 10-09-08, 11:09 PM

Rofl Rofl Rofl Hahahaha

"bong Hit!"

EgoffTib · 10-09-08, 11:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Major Enigma

Can someone explain to me when corporate America became liberal?
NBC (and all its many affiliates) is owned by GE. A large defense contractor. Selling war puts money in their pocket. Why would they promote peace, taxes, and regulation?

How does a large defense contractor owning NBC make them liberal? Neocons are the one pushing for war.