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MSNBC bias the Left doesn't recognize

Since you don’t watch any other outlets but the three you mentioned, you really don’t know what’s going on in the World, do you?

What makes you think I don't watch other outlets? I do. Yet another jump to conclusions, surprise, surprise.
 
Virtually every liberal I know agrees MSNBC has a liberal bias. But they also never had the “Fair and Balanced” claim.

The "Fair and Balanced" claim was dead on arrival the moment anyone learned about Roger Ailes' memo to Nixon where he said:

"Today television news is watched more often than people read newspapers, than people listen to the radio, than people read or gather any other form of communication. The reason: People are lazy. With television you just sit—watch—listen. The thinking is done for you."

It also plants a large torpedo under that OTHER famous Fox News slogan:

"We report. You decide."

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How does that square with "The thinking is done for you." ???
 
The country at large would do itself a tremendous amount of good learning how to read a newspaper again. That is about all I have to say on this topic today as I have made numerous posts about the biases of the various cable news 24/7's.
 
I have a recommendation to make.

The Brainwashing of my Dad

Jen Senko, a documentary filmmaker, looks at the rise of right-wing media through the lens of her WWII vet father who changed from a life-long, nonpolitical Democrat to an angry, right-wing fanatic after his discovery of talk radio on a lengthened commute to work. In trying to understand how this happened, she not only finds this to be a phenomenon, but also uncovers some of the forces behind it: a plan by Roger Ailes under Nixon to create a media for the GOP; the Lewis Powell Memo, urging business leaders to influence institutions of public opinion - especially the universities - the media and the courts; and under Reagan, the dismantling of the Fairness Doctrine - all of which helped to change the entire country's direction and culture, misinformed millions, divided families and even the country itself.

---One other recommendation...fairness and balance are not the same thing.



“The only thing trickling down from the top is meanness.”
---Studs Terkel
 
The country at large would do itself a tremendous amount of good learning how to read a newspaper again. That is about all I have to say on this topic today as I have made numerous posts about the biases of the various cable news 24/7's.

While I agree, it is still of the utmost importance that we revive the concept of news as a loss leader operation instead of profit based, because (A) even newspapers feel the influence of the bottom line and always have to some extent, and (B) it is not always realistic to only read newspapers anyway.

Not only that, but newspapers these days are largely digital creatures and are also utilizing a model known as "newspaper video journalism".

We HAVE a loss leader news operation in America today, but it is mostly limited to covering news directly from the House of Representatives and the Senate. It is called C-SPAN, and the model works, financially speaking, and its coverage of the House and Senate works, and works very well.

C-SPAN is a private, nonprofit organization, funded by a 6¢ per subscriber affiliate fee paid by its cable and satellite affiliates, and does not have advertisements on any of its networks, radio stations, or websites, nor does it ever solicit donations or pledges. The network operates independently, and neither the cable industry nor Congress has control of the content of its programming.
That rounds out to about 70 million dollars, a fraction of the budgets of the 24 hour cable news outlets.

Now, imagine if we were able to bump that six cent per subscriber affiliate fee to an amount that would give C-SPAN 300 million dollars. That comes to about a buck from every man, woman and child in the United States.
Small change for something that has the capacity to change the way we get our news and information.
 
Yes, everyone has a bias, conscious or not. Usually, when I speak of bias, it’s in the context of an extreme bias. So, when I ask for evidence of bias from someone (or some group or media outlet), it’s with the expectancy of the claim-maker having identified an extreme bias.

The OP picked out two examples that, if true, are nothing more than I would expect as normal if but few they are. If, though, there were many examples that were significant in number, that would more likely identify an extreme bias. To ask for some kind of verification of those two examples would be beside the point.
 
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