Left-leaning media?
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Okay, I'm confused about something and hopefully y'all can help me figure it out. I read/hear a lot about how the mainstream media leans to the left. (I especially read this on here and just read it again.) Can someone please explain to me exactly which media outlets are left-leaning and demonstrate how this is the case and how they represent the mainstream media as a whole?
I spent a good amount of time in airports recently, where CNN was on everywhere I went, and everything I saw indicated to me that they were not at all left-leaning. I've heard people say that Huffington Post is left-leaning, and I could buy that, but I don't really consider them to be the mainstream media. I certainly don't see any indication that the media as a whole leans to the left.
Also, while we're on the topic of the mainstream media.... MSM means Men who have Sex with Men. Just wanted to clear that up.
I spent a good amount of time in airports recently, where CNN was on everywhere I went, and everything I saw indicated to me that they were not at all left-leaning. I've heard people say that Huffington Post is left-leaning, and I could buy that, but I don't really consider them to be the mainstream media. I certainly don't see any indication that the media as a whole leans to the left.
Also, while we're on the topic of the mainstream media.... MSM means Men who have Sex with Men. Just wanted to clear that up.
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"With our thoughts we make the world"
the mainstream media is not left-leaning by any stretch based on anything i would consider left but this is a country where many still call Obama a socialist so ... I guess it's all relative ...
the media much like gov't itself is a corporatized version of what it should be ...
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
http://newsbusters.org/
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
This site may have some valid points, but I scrolled down just a few entries and found two posts with the word "Obamacare" in the title. This only proves to me that this site is biased as well.
"With our thoughts we make the world"
That was because of... MONEY.
Remember the Persian Gulf War of 1991? It pretty much created Cable News. CNN Reoprters were the only ones reporting out of Baghdad. The war was depicted (in a slanted view) as a video game.
In 2003, media outlets... especially television media... were drooling at the mouth to get another shot at another war. They were being told that their reporters would be embedded with frontline troops to report war in realtime. Newsroom editors were creaming their pants just thinking about the possible ratings.
They passed on all information being fed by the Bush Administration because they knew it would be a 24 hour spectacle. Remember all of the red, white and blue graphic and wartime music that lead their new programs? And title graphics such as 'Showdow In The Sand' or 'Target: Saddam' that were more like Jean Calude Van Damme movie posters than newscasts. It was all advertisement for the upcoming war. The media wanted the war because they wanted to be next CNN.
The mass media FAILED America. They are supposed to be our watchdog and alert us when our government fails us.
Hail, Hail!!!
of course cause everyone knows the next step is communism and the downfall of our society.
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Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
I'm sorry, but I still don't get it. The "About" section of this website says it is "the leader in documenting, exposing and neutralizing liberal media bias," and then its first example is to "expose" a joke that Jay Leno told about Obama's age being higher than his approval rating. How is this left-leaning and how does it represent the mainstream media as a whole? I think I need you (or someone) to be more explicit, please.
yep. theres a reason soap operas are called soap operas.
take a good look
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yup ... either way - the mainstream media definitely does not lean left ...
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Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
Also, here is a study http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/Media-Bias-Is-Real-Finds-UCLA-6664.aspx
Kuypers is another person you should read about. He has done some interesting studies. He wrote a pretty interesting book about the media and 9/11 coverage and shortly after. Good stuff.
I dont know, in the end perception is reality and if you perceive a bias you will find one.
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- Joe Rogan
thats quite an interesting read actually, it seems the news leans left rather than the media though, considering it didn't include opinion pieces
this is at least a better study than the example previously given ...
i will add again tho that it really depends on how one describes being left ... i mean the NAACP is about civil liberties but hardly anyone i know who is left in my mind would consider them a reputable source for opinions ...
having said that - if people think obama is left ... then the media definitely leans that way ... but really, he is far more centrist than left ...
I see your point.But I dissagree. For example take the last presidential election.All the networks were either for Obama or Hillary. They hardly if ever had anything good to say about Sara Palin or Mcain or any other republican candidate for that matter. Take General Electric. You could say that's Obama's Halliburton. GE which Ownes NBC,MSNBC.GE CEO Jeff Immelt sits on Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, and GE owns MSNBC, the network famously friendly to Obama.”
Not only that just look at which networks cover or report on certain stories. For example Fox News was the only network for weeks that talked about Obama's ties with Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers. The Acorn story is another example. I could keep going, but I would be here all day..
again tho ... your foundation of obama/democrats = left is the caveat here ...
look at the anti-obama posts here, they are equally distributed by you (right) and those on the left ... people who are truly left do not consider the democrats nor obama to be left ...
But I thought we were talking about the media :?
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
yeah but to the rest of the world america is already to to right, so he may be bringing it to the left but thats still quite centerist, in fact in europe it would be right leaning centerist
we are talking about the media but you continually use obama as your reasoning that the media leans left ...
the opposite of right is indeed left however, we are talking about a political spectrum and in that context ... there are degrees of right and degrees of left ... and there is also a centre ...
the left would argue that the corporatization of america is more holistically supported by the right ... as it's usually the right that wants corporations to have little oversight by gov't and are always in favour of deregulation ... it is also the right who is not in favour of environmental regulations, something the left supports ... so, when we are talking about a mainstream media that essentially cowtails to corporate america - there is no part of the left that sees the mainstream media as friendly ...
where is the mainstream media on iraq and afghanistan now, where are they on human right abuses around the world, where are they on climate change? ... these are all key issues that concern the left and they have very little face time in the mainstream media ...
the mainstream media promotes a corporate agenda ... it's really that simple ... any news that may or may not get thrown in the mix is purely superficial in nature ...
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