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The Media Research Center...

Is the MRC correct?


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The Media Research Center has done a "study" that concludes that the big network news programs (ABC, CBS, NBC) are not producing very much election coverage this year in their nightly news programs, because the Democrats are probably going to lose control of the Senate this year. To make this assumption, they compare this year to 2006 when when there were many more reports and the Democrats were scheduled to have a good year. It could be the ratings were not very good in 2006 so they decided to cut it down or other news such a ISIS or Ebola has taken a good deal of their time. What say you?

Here is the link to their "study:"

TV News Blacks Out This Year

Do you believe this is true or could it be something like ratings or something else?
 
No idea, but it wouldn't surprise me.
 
Same as azgreg- it wouldn't surprise me in the least. For decades, the media has tried to make the news, as opposed to just reporting it, and it's no secret that for the most part, they are usually in the tank for dems.
 
The only coverage they do is on states where democrats are expected to win and toss up states.
 
Same as azgreg- it wouldn't surprise me in the least. For decades, the media has tried to make the news, as opposed to just reporting it, and it's no secret that for the most part, they are usually in the tank for dems.

I've always found that narrative amusing because of how it contracts another right wing narrative. Democrats hate the rich and successful. Yet, the media, run by the rich and successful at all levels, seem to be "in the tank" for Democrats. From investors to owners to even media personalities, there are literally thousands of rich folks (great example: Soros), who the Democrats supposedly hate but who are in the tank for them. In terms of crazy conspiracy theories, I rank it somewhere below the nuttiness of "Jews run the media" but above "The government is hiding aliens".
 
In my opinion the "the big network news programs (ABC, CBS, NBC "are kinda behind the curve of history anyway.In other words, they are the buggy whips of news as for as the 21st century goes.:2wave:
 
The Media Research Center has done a "study" that concludes that the big network news programs (ABC, CBS, NBC) are not producing very much election coverage this year in their nightly news programs, because the Democrats are probably going to lose control of the Senate this year. To make this assumption, they compare this year to 2006 when when there were many more reports and the Democrats were scheduled to have a good year. It could be the ratings were not very good in 2006 so they decided to cut it down or other news such a ISIS or Ebola has taken a good deal of their time. What say you?

Here is the link to their "study:"

TV News Blacks Out This Year

Do you believe this is true or could it be something like ratings or something else?
Are you asking us if they fudged the data? That doesn't seem like something that should be decided by a poll.

If not, then what is this thread about? The link didn't say anything about reading the minds of the people at the networks.
 
Are you asking us if they fudged the data? That doesn't seem like something that should be decided by a poll.
Did you read what I wrote?
If not, then what is this thread about? The link didn't say anything about reading the minds of the people at the networks.
It says the reason there aren't many midterm stories because the Democrats are expected to lose. That sounds like mind reading to me.
 
I've always found that narrative amusing because of how it contracts another right wing narrative. Democrats hate the rich and successful. Yet, the media, run by the rich and successful at all levels, seem to be "in the tank" for Democrats. From investors to owners to even media personalities, there are literally thousands of rich folks (great example: Soros), who the Democrats supposedly hate but who are in the tank for them. In terms of crazy conspiracy theories, I rank it somewhere below the nuttiness of "Jews run the media" but above "The government is hiding aliens".



You missed the point on the media narrative.

They are broadcasting to idiots with no real comprehension of anything except the two sided idea. There is us and them, rich and poor, big and small, weak and strong. they need to create an attention grabbing segment with sensationalized misdirect in every word.

Every story is the same story written and edited by a same thinking group of ideologues in an echo chamber possessing little experience and less intelligence.

The folks on TV that we see are all about as qualified as the local weather girl to make a cohesive statement on anything outside of their make up and hair product.
 
Did you read what I wrote?
It says the reason there aren't many midterm stories because the Democrats are expected to lose. That sounds like mind reading to me.
They didn't actually say that. They discussed the correlation, but they never claimed that correlation = causality.
 
I couldn't begin to respond to this since I stopped watching network news shows during GWB's days of crucifixion by ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS and the cable news channels CNN and PMSNBC, especially the latter. I sure do miss the arrival of all the new KIA caskets and the body counts EVERY DAMN DAY. NOT!
 
When you've got ISIS, Ebola, another school shooting, and plenty of other stories to sensationalize, what's a little election by comparison?
 
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