Jonestown: 30th Anniversary
O'Neil's Faggy Prostate - This is a BASEBALL group, thank you!
entering of "drink the Kool-Aid" into the American lexicon.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1205752/guyana_jim_jones_massacre_nears_30th.html
~~~
For decades, the names Jim Jones and Jonestown, and the phrase "drink
the Kool-Aid" have been infamous in American history. For decades,
whenever any cult gets too powerful or too dangerous, Jones and
Jonestown are brought up by comparison. No matter what kind of cult
comes around, they would have to be hard pressed to wreck the kind of
destruction, and self destruction, that Jim Jones brought in Jonestown
at Guyana.
~~~
In recognition of this event, it's appropriate we review the latest
cult to which the Kool-Aid phrase can be readily applied - The Cult of
O.
Nearly half of the American voters want to know the same thing - how
in the WORLD could anyone vote for this guy?!?
Well, here is the answer:
A politically uneducated and easily manipulated populace.
http://howobamagotelected.com/
The video there is telling and entertaining but the REAL story is in
the poll numbers.
"Survey finds most Obama voters remembered negative coverage of McCain/
Palin statements but struggled to correctly answer questions about
coverage associated with Obama/Biden."
No wonder - The MSM *obviously* did their job exceedingly well!
After the mass brainwashing and steady stream of 'round the clock MSM
pro-Obama propaganda, a stunning 52% of the American voting population
opted to vote for "hopeandchange" as preached by the modern day Jim
Jones - The Obamasiah!
Now that the election is over, the MSM is coming clean as to their
bias. Educated voters already knew of this heavy, heavy bias,
however.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/07/AR2008110702895.html
Bill Hamilton, assistant managing editor for politics, said, "There
are a lot of things I wish we'd been able to do in covering this
campaign, but we had to make choices about what we felt we were
uniquely able to provide our audiences both in Washington and on the
Web. I don't at all discount the importance of issues, but *****we had
a larger purpose*****, to convey and explain a campaign that our own
David Broder described as the most exciting he has ever covered, a
narrative that unfolded until the very end. I think our staff rose to
the occasion."
and. . .
"But Obama deserved tougher scrutiny than he got, especially of his
undergraduate years, his start in Chicago and his relationship with
Antoin "Tony" Rezko, who was convicted this year of influence-peddling
in Chicago. The Post did nothing on Obama's acknowledged drug use as a
teenager."
What else needs to be said? The evidence is indisputable and
overwhelming.
For all the rhetorical, baseless accusations by the about "stealing
elections" - *clearly and unquestionably*, this election was stolen by
the liberal MSM on behalf of The One, much to the determent of this
country's future.
http://i35.tinypic.com/2w7q1wj.jpg
Now, a eulogy:
http://infohost.nmt.edu/~armiller/commonsen.htm
R.I.P., my dear, dear Lady Liberty. R.I.P.
*sniff*
Double-Aces
Is that nonsense, really the best thing which you could figure out to
do with your time? Please do not feel the need to answer that, as
brain strain could easily result, although not in your case!
Cheerios.
PS. http://www.nonstick.com/sounds/Daffy_Duck/ltdd_014.mp3
On Nov 19, 5:52 pm, "O'Neil's Faggy Prostate - This is a BASEBALL
group, thank you!" <oneilsprost...@aol.com> wrote:
> Yesterday was the 30th Anniversary of the Jonestown Massacre and the
> entering of "drink the Kool-Aid" into the American lexicon.
>
> http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1205752/guyana_jim_jones_mas...
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/07/AR200...
Dano58
group, thank you!" <oneilsprost...@aol.com> wrote:
> entering of "drink the Kool-Aid" into the American lexicon.
<sigh> So much for 'This is a BASEBALL group, Thank you!'.
Dan D
Central NJ USA
O'Neil's Faggy Prostate - This is a BASEBALL group, thank you!
Hey, I DID say I would still be doing the occasional OT drive-by!
;)
bmo...@nyx.net
group, thank you!" <oneilsprost...@aol.com> wrote:
> On Nov 20, 1:23 pm, Dano58 <dan.dibi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Nov 19, 5:52 pm, "O'Neil's Faggy Prostate - This is a BASEBALL
> > group, thank you!" <oneilsprost...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > > Yesterday was the 30th Anniversary of the Jonestown Massacre and the
> > > entering of "drink the Kool-Aid" into the American lexicon.
>
> > <sigh> So much for 'This is a BASEBALL group, Thank you!'.
>
> > Dan D
> > Central NJ USA
>
> Hey, I DID say I would still be doing the occasional OT drive-by!
More like a crawl-by, given your level of emotional maturity
bmo...@nyx.net
> entering of "drink the Kool-Aid" into the American lexicon.
>
empty words from a jerk
bmo...@nyx.net
No one responds to him when he talks about baseball so his inner
asshole just can't stop it.
Dano
Great...so YOU feel obligated to respond? Ignore the crossposting turd.
O'Neil's Faggy Prostate - This is a BASEBALL group, thank you!
Wow.
You really ARE Pw0n3d!!!
FANS!!!
:D
O'Neil's Faggy Prostate - This is a BASEBALL group, thank you!
> empty words from a jerk-
Oh, no. Noooo - not by a looooong shot!
The TRUTH - and the PROOF is right in that post.
YOU WERE DUPED BY THE MSM!!!
:D
bmo...@nyx.net
Your opinion worthless.
bmo...@nyx.net
group, thank you!" <oneilsprost...@aol.com> wrote:
> On Nov 20, 4:22 pm, bmo...@nyx.net wrote:
>
> > On Nov 20, 11:23 am, Dano58 <dan.dibi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > On Nov 19, 5:52 pm, "O'Neil's Faggy Prostate - This is a BASEBALL
> > > group, thank you!" <oneilsprost...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Yesterday was the 30th Anniversary of the Jonestown Massacre and the
> > > > entering of "drink the Kool-Aid" into the American lexicon.
>
> > > <sigh> So much for 'This is a BASEBALL group, Thank you!'.
>
> > > Dan D
> > > Central NJ USA
>
> > No one responds to him when he talks about baseball so his inner
> > asshole just can't stop it.
>
> Wow.
>
> You really ARE Pw0n3d!!!
Since you are so keen on "polls" and "studies" to "prove" your asinine
claims, studies and polls show that 98% of people who constantly use
terminology like "pwned" on the internet are losers in real life.
All you are is a soundbite spewer - your "thinking" is only in your
own mind. You couldn't really think to save your life. You reach
garbage conclusions and if you ever encountered a real thought it
would scare you shitless.
Tellwitcha
news:957ba899-284f-4602...@k24g2000pri.googlegroups.com...
On Nov 19, 2:52 pm, "O'Neil's Faggy Prostate - This is a BASEBALL
group, thank you!" <oneilsprost...@aol.com> wrote:
> Yesterday was the 30th Anniversary of the Jonestown Massacre and the
> entering of "drink the Kool-Aid" into the American lexicon.
>
> http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1205752/guyana_jim_jones_mas...
>
> ~~~
> For decades, the names Jim Jones and Jonestown, and the phrase "drink
empty words from a jerk
Most of us have had him killfiled for so long we were thinking of throwing
an anniversary party. Care to join ?
MJ
mario in victoria
I'll bring the toilet paper.
mario in victoria
--
don't ask
Wayback1918
>
> - Show quoted text -
If you can't attack the message........attack the messenger.
Its undeniable that there was a media bias right from the first time
that 'thrill went right up <Chris Matthews> leg'
S/B 954RR
bmo...@nyx.net
If the "messenger" is consistently full of shit, the "messenger"
deserves to be mocked
.
> Its undeniable that there was a media bias right from the first time
> that 'thrill went right up <Chris Matthews> leg
such strong "proof"
Wayback1918
>
> - Show quoted text -
The examples are too numerous to list. But I'll try.
What is Bias? Here are the "Seven Violations of Media Objectivity":
1. Misleading definitions and terminology.
2. Imbalanced reporting.
3. Opinions disguised as news.
4. Lack of context.
5. Selective omission.
6. Using true facts to draw false conclusions.
7. Distortion of facts.
The Media Has Lost the Public's Trust. A recent report indicates that
the general public's trust in newspapers and television news are at
all-time lows. In addition, another report shows that newspaper
subscriptions are facing an accelerated decline. These reports,
combined with the major networks news programs and CNN's continued
slide in ratings, means the public is fed up with news coverage that
is not fair and balanced.
In the Tank: A Statistical Analysis of Media Bias. During the 2008
presidential election, even center-left observers have noted the
unmistakable bias of the prestige news media toward Democratic
candidates and the Democratic Party in general. As we shall reveal,
the bias of the media is pervasive, ideologically motivated, and
quantifiable: that is, it has been admitted, measured, and analyzed in
statistical terms. Those results reveal a media doggedly out-of-touch
with the political center and tilted decidedly leftward.
From Being Watchdogs to Needing Watchdogs. The mainstream media, who
forgot Felix Frankfurter's admonition that "freedom of the press is
not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society," long
ago abdicated their role as government watchdog and now require a
watchdog themselves. Never has that been clearer than in the 2008
presidential election, during which they are covering up rather than
covering Barack Obama's shady past and alliances, his knee-deep
involvement in corrupt practices threatening the very core of our
democratic system, and his many policy misrepresentations.
Mainstream Media Needs Rehab For Liberal Overdose. This bias from the
small town markets to the industry's big guns creates an interesting
dichotomy — because the majority of news organizations have swung so
far to the left, other news outlets who don't follow suit appear
"right." Or worse, the rosy glasses of the majority make leftist
extremes appear normal. Yet, despite the mainstream media's best
efforts, the majority of Americans remain conservative.
Democrats Most Reliable Constituents: The Press. Surveys of
journalists conducted over the past three decades show the media elite
are extremely consistent in choosing Democratic candidates on Election
Day. If only journalists were permitted to vote, we would never have
had a President Reagan or a President Bush, but would have instead
faced Presidents McGovern, Mondale, Dukakis and Kerry. It wouldn't
have been close.
Media Credibility: As an "independent conservative," I'm expected to
see liberal media bias lurking everywhere, but it's not just me — and
it's not just conservatives. I know liberals, including newspaper
editors, who think the "news" pendulum had swung dangerously far to
the left. Beyond recent studies by the Pew Research Center and the
Project for Excellence in Journalism, other research shows that the
media has tilted to the left; indeed journalists themselves have
openly admitted as much.
Zogby Poll: Voters Believe Media Bias is Very Real. Nearly two-
thirds of those online respondents who detected bias in the media
(64%) said the media leans left, while slightly more than a quarter of
respondents (28%) said they see a conservative bias on their TV sets
and in their column inches.
Exactly How Biased is the American Media? The average American voter
is starting to come to grips with the fact that those who control the
flow of their information, "the media," are neither independent nor
unbiased. In a September 2007 Gallup survey of American voters, 45%
said the media is too liberal, compared to only 18% who said the media
is too conservative and 35% who said the media is about right. The
results of that survey demonstrate how far left 18% of Americans are
today, and how uninformed another 35% are.
America's Second Wake-Up Call! In the last 40 years, there have been
nine major surveys of editors and reporters who work for national
media. The most they ever voted Republican in a national election was
14%; the more common range has been 4% to 7%. This is one reason why
no matter who wins a political debate, the media almost en masse
repeatedly tell you their man won. And most voters who don't pay
close attention will believe them. It's called coordinated
propaganda.
Old Media News In The Tank. The old broadcast and print media outlets
have abandoned any pretense of objectivity and impartiality in this
year's general election, further eroding their credibility. It makes
one wonder. Is the future of news already here, or are we
transitioning toward something still over the horizon?
Even Harvard Finds The Media Biased. The debate is over. A consensus
has been reached. On global warming? No, on how Democrats are
favored on television, radio and in the newspapers. Just like so many
reports before it, a joint survey by the Project for Excellence in
Journalism and Harvard's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press,
Politics and Public Policy — hardly a bastion of conservative
orthodoxy — found that in covering the current presidential race, the
media are sympathetic to Democrats and hostile to Republicans.
Keeping the press honest: "If you look at the surveys, we've
accomplished our primary mission, which is to educate the American
people about the bias that exists," he [Brent Bozell III] says. "One
survey in 1987 showed ... that only 25 percent of the people believed
there was such a thing as media bias. Today, according to a recent
survey, that figure is 79 percent."
Reader responses overflow after story. When Politico editors John F.
Harris and Jim VandeHei tackled the subject of media bias Tuesday
[10/28/2008], they knew they were venturing into controversial
territory. Still, they hadn't predicted the most intense reader
response Politico has ever received, with hundreds of e-mails pouring
into their inboxes within hours of the story hitting the web.
"Swiftboating," Media Myths and the 2004 Campaign. The media's
ability to shape opinion derives from its power to slant the news —
the pervasive activism known as "media bias" — and also from its power
to choose what is and is not reported. But 2004 marked a watershed in
American political history. That was the year the old media lost
control of our national conversation.
Tim Russert Took Media Bias Seriously. In 2001, my first book,
"Bias," came out. It was an insider's look at bias in the media. Not
one network news correspondent would have anything to do with me. I
couldn't get on any of their morning news shows to talk about the book
(which was a national best seller), or their evening shows or their
weekend shows or even their middle-of-the-night news shows. No one in
network television wanted to discuss the issue, no matter how many
Middle Americans thought it was important. Russert was the lone
exception.
The War Inside NBC: It was a black day for journalism in NBC: [Tim]
Russert's death released one of the last brakes slowing NBC's descent
into political activism and journalistic irrelevance. NBC was once
the proud home of real journalists. People such as Chet Huntley and
David Brinkley brought its standards to — and above — the level
prevalent in most news organizations. But now, it's an asylum for
people such as Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann.
Enough Already! I have just about had it with the conservative
punditry and their plaintive wailings about the unfairness of the self-
proclaimed "mainstream media" (I think the designation "Big Media"
would be more appropriate as applied to the information service of the
leftist elites, which is anything but mainstream). "Where is the
outrage?" "Why does the mainstream media concentrate exclusively on
the failings of the right while completely ignoring the failings of
the left?"
Inside the Disinformation Machine: If you think the media has a
liberal bias today, wait until you see what the left has in store for
America's future. Extremist billionaires, "netroots" activists, and
nonprofit pressure groups are creating a new media network. Through
blog journalism, they aim to discredit the media outposts of the right
while remaking the Internet in their own image.
Evangelicals are in the news, but not in newsrooms. It's unclear
exactly how many evangelicals work in newsrooms, and federal laws
against religious discrimination prevent news managers from asking
about a job candidate's beliefs. But the Pew Research Center for the
People and the Press reported in 2007 that 8 percent of journalists
surveyed at national media outlets said they attended church or
synagogue weekly. The survey also found 29 percent never attend such
services, with 39 percent reporting they go a few times a year.
A Shameful Week for the Press. I have always tended to think that
conservative complaints about the media are a little exaggerated.
There are occasionally obvious instances of bias and clear examples of
a double standard, but most reporters don't want to fall into those
and some conservatives are surely too sensitive to them. But this
week has changed my view. I have never seen, and I admit that I could
never have imagined, such shameful, out-of-control, frenzied, angry,
condescending, and pathetic journalistic malpractice.
Stunning results in early voting in California. California has begun
early voting already as well as mail-in balloting. The number of
people who have gone in to vote in person has been extensive. The
results so far prove what we had always suspected. The polls are
being proven as totally unreliable.
Academedia Bias: Too often we treat academic and media bias
separately when their relationship is much more symbiotic. After all,
not only are media elites trained in academia but they frequently
return to school to teach and "give something back" to the educational
system that spawned them.
Poll: Democrats Trust Media More than Republicans Do. Harris
released one of their latest polls on the 6th [3/6/2008] and it showed
that less than half the general American public trusts the press.
With the state of the media today, this should come as no surprise to
anyone. But, the numbers are pretty amazing when it is realized that
54% of those responding said they did not trust the press while 46%
admitted that they don't trust television news either.
'Whitewash' Indictment of Liberal Media Convinces, Says Zelnick. No
one does a better job than L. Brent Bozell III and his Media Research
Center in documenting the liberal bias of much of the mainstream news
media. Some of their citations of my former colleagues' wisdom make
me laugh out loud. Others make me furious.
The Fall of the American Press? Many of the reasons given for the
challenges facing the newspaper and the media in general are well
known, but perhaps worth recounting. … [For example] journalists are
no longer seen as disinterested parties pursuing the truth, but as
elites who themselves profit from pushing certain agendas. The
revolving door between the halls of power and the news studios
underscores this concern.
Media Lies: Plenty know by now that in 2004 the progressive Pew
Foundation published an extensive poll exposing the five-to-one ratio
of liberals to conservatives in the news-reporting media. Strangely,
media outlets must believe that we have forgotten this because they
continue marching forward just like the vain and gullible monarch
penned by Hans Christian Andersen.
Media bias impacts the news you hear and don't hear.
Bias by Story Selection: By selecting the story the liberals want
reported, and ignoring the stories conservatives want reported, it's
clear that the media elite aren't in the "news" business. They're in
the liberal publicity business.
Time for "Propagandist Buttons" to identify biased "journalists" on
air. Canada Free Press (CFP) editors Judi McLeod and Arthur Weinreb
advocate that [Gwen] Ifill and others of her ilk should be identified
for what they are: propagandists not journalists; that "journalists"
advocating for the election of Obama should be forced by the networks
who hire them to wear buttons proclaiming them as "Propagandists". In
short, in fairness to television viewers everywhere, the Katie
Courics, Rachel Maddows et al should be forced to wear on-air the
"Propagandist Button", a sort of Fairness Doctrine that really works.
BBC to probe its 'bias to the Left'. The move comes just five months
after another internal BBC report claimed that the organisation was
Left-leaning, out of touch with large swathes of the public and guilty
of "unconscious self-censorship" on issues it found unpalatable.
The Pulitzer Racket: Conservatives often ponder why more young
conservatives don't go into journalism. Here's one easy reason: The
path to prizes and prestige doesn't come from fierce investigative
probing into liberal sacred cows or sharp-eyed conservative
commentary. It comes from pleasing liberals with stories that advance
their agenda.
Hillary On The Hotseat: One need look no further than yesterday's
Wall Street Journal to figure out why the Left has been so adamantly
opposed to its sale to Rupert Murdoch. The Wall Street Journal has
had the audacity, the effrontery, to challenge, actually challenge,
one of the Left's most cherished shibboleths: Queen Hillary. Doing
what 'mainstream' journalists have failed to do for, oh, the last ten
years or so (except when a Republican is president), the WSJ put the
'investigate' back in 'investigative journalism.'
Scandalous "Scandals". Now that ABC News has the list of phone
numbers given to them by the "Washington madam," the question is:
Whose names will they publicize if they find out that there are public
figures whose phone numbers are among those they have? Let us
suppose, just for the sake of argument, that these names include Karl
Rove and Ted Kennedy. Are both names equally likely to be revealed?
All the news that fits. Only a dyed-in-the-wool leftist would think
to label CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post and the
three major networks, as the mainstream media. Only liberals who are
so delusional as to regard their politics as middle of the road could
be that mistaken. Normal people are aware of the fact that these news
outlets are not only not mainstream, but are clear out of the water
and perched on the far left bank. However, those of the liberal
persuasion have repeated that lie so often and for so long, I'm afraid
they've actually come to take it as gospel.
The blind leading the bias. What a splendid joke. If I'd wanted to
prove the unconscious bias of the media, I would have picked exactly
such a panel, and watched to see if anyone actually noticed the
screaming absence of a single conservative voice.
Al-Jazeera now biased, says leaving reporter. The most high-profile
US journalist on al-Jazeera's English language service has left the
channel, attacking its narrowing world view and increasingly anti-
American editorial slant. Dave Marash, a former ABC correspondent,
said that editorial input from Washington had "gotten smaller and
smaller" and that the Qatar-based management were exerting control on
the channel's overseas bureaux.
Al Jazeera Hosts Party for a Terrorist. An Israeli official has
accused the Arabic satellite television channel Al Jazeera of
"unprofessional" behavior in hosting a party at its Beirut office for
newly freed arch-terrorist Samir Kuntar. … Kuntar was accused of
killing four Israelis, including a four-year-old girl whose head he
smashed with a rifle.
CNN and Hillary Destabilize Pakistan. We can now understand why
Musharraf's November 3 state-of-emergency decree took foreign news
outlets like CNN off the air. Musharraf, who is one of the main
targets of the al-Qaeda international terrorist organization,
recognizes that the so-called "CNN effect" in global affairs can
destabilize foreign governments, including his own. It's no wonder
that he recently complained about being betrayed by the Western media.
The Last March Of The Dinosaurs: The Death Of Network News. The nets
can't change their DNA, and that DNA isn't meant for the world of new
media. They are slow when the new media is fast. … Worst of all, they
lost their collective news judgment years ago, and still haven't
figured out how to get it back. They keep hiring people from inside
the junior varsity bubble of the Ivies and J-schools and wonder why
they can't break out of their Manhattan-Beltway bubble.
America is in Deep Trouble. Though most Americans are far more
conservative than anyone living or working in Washington DC today, the
conservative movement finds itself playing defense to a long list of
socialist anti-American aggressors. No, not the Soviet block or Red
China, but your friendly DNC Headquarters, their minions in the press,
and your next door neighbors, many of whom are unaware of their
socialist standing.
Excerpts from How to Identify, Expose and Correct Liberal Media Bias:
Tips for identifying and documenting bias in news stories.
What can we do about media bias? The Associated Press is the 500-
pound gorilla of media bias. They are the gatekeepers of our news and
they're extremely powerful. The liberally biased AP is a monopoly
when it comes to distributing news to our nation's newspapers. It's
useless to complain to them though, because they don't care.
No candy coating here ...
Some of the media is still lousy. When it comes to the liberal/
leftist media in general, especially The New York Times, … The
Washington Post, … and The Los Angeles Times, they never disappoint
media analysts for their basic anti-Bush, anti-Republican, anti-
conservative, anti-American, anti-military, anti-capitalism and free
enterprise, and anti-Western civilization biases, stances,
commentaries, and misinformation/disinformation.
Give 'em that liberal media bias. The Media Research Center has
released its 19th Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting in its
ever-vigilant attempt to point out some of the greatest examples of
left-tilting bias in the mainstream media. Next to Christmas, it is
one of my favorite things about the month of December. I offer a
small sampling of my favorites.
Liberal bias in media is no secret, but now it's proven. Our American
media machine is broken. Journalists can no longer be trusted. Many
conservatives have seen years of evidence that the mainstream media is
shifting further and further to the left. But this week a new study
from the Center for Media and Public Affairs shows an unprecedented
bias in the network news coverage.
Four Times More Journalists Identify as Liberal Than Conservative. A
survey conducted late last year and released Monday, by the Pew
Research Center for the People and the Press, confirmed the obvious —
that compared to the views of the public, conservatives are under-
represented in national journalism while liberals are over-
represented. Jennifer Harper of the Washington Times discovered the
nugget buried deep in the annual "State of the Media" report from
Pew's Project for Excellence in Journalism and FNC's Brit Hume on
Tuesday night highlighted the findings from the survey of 222
journalists and news executives at national outlets: Only six percent
said they considered themselves conservatives and only two percent
said they were very conservative.
Hispanic news a GOP liability. Although Spanish-language press is not
monolithic, news coverage, and particularly political coverage, tends
to focus on advocacy for its community, analysts said. It's new
territory that Democrats have been quick to grasp, deploying Spanish-
speaking lawmakers to make the party's case on education, national
defense and, most recently, immigration.
The Editor says...
That's just a roundabout way of saying that the Hispanic press leans
to the political left even more than the English-speaking press.
Journalists dole out cash to politicians (quietly). MSNBC.com
identified 144 journalists who made political contributions from 2004
through the start of the 2008 campaign, according to the public
records of the Federal Election Commission. Most of the newsroom
checkbooks leaned to the left: 125 journalists gave to Democrats and
liberal causes. Only 17 gave to Republicans. Two gave to both
parties.
Poll Finds Journos At Bottom Of 'Prestige' Jobs. Hang down your head,
journalist — your fellow Americans don't think your career is much to
be proud of. The annual Harris Poll measuring public perceptions of
23 professions and occupations came out Wednesday — and you can find
journalists in the Bottom Ten.
Hitting a New Low in Bias: The truth is, to be pro-life is to be anti-
violence. No one who is truly pro-life could ever advocate or engage
in violence, whether shooting an abortionist outside an abortion
clinic or tearing an unborn child apart inside that clinic. But for
the media, that truth doesn't fit their fiction of what "pro-life"
means. So they ignore it.
A Reporter-Turned-Congressman Waves Yellow Flag On Media Bias. At
their best, the news media help promote our democracy. Like many
Americans, though, I am increasingly concerned about a bias in the
mainstream news media. To me, there is a significant liberal slant in
news reporting that prevents the American people from getting facts
about critical issues facing our country. Without facts, Americans
cannot make informed decisions about issues, and our democracy is
threatened.
No Extreme Democrats for MSM? So, we have a "moderate" in Hoyer
facing an extremist in Murtha in this fight for Party Majority
leader. But, one would be hard pressed to see any MSM outlet
presenting the facts in such a light. In fact, the MSM seems to want
to present the story as a corruption issue instead of a war issue,
even as they want to assume that the recent election is a vote by the
electorate to get out of Iraq.
MSNBC, Leaning Left And Getting Flak From Both Sides. MSNBC, which
bills itself as "the place for politics," is being pummeled by
political practitioners. "It's an organ of the Democratic National
Committee," says Steve Schmidt, a senior strategist for John McCain's
campaign. "It's a partisan advocacy organization that exists for the
purpose of attacking John McCain."
Americans See Liberal Media Bias on TV News. By a 39% to 20% margin,
American adults believe that the three major broadcast networks
deliver news with a bias in favor of liberals. A Rasmussen Reports
national telephone survey found that just 25% believe that ABC, CBS,
and NBC deliver the news without any bias.
New Evidence of Liberal Media Bias. This study found evidence that
conservatives were more likely to perceive media bias than liberals,
but that both conservatives and liberals detected bias in media
outlets that leaned against their political perspectives. In the end,
however, because conservatives were more critical of the media both in
general and in response to specific outlets, the results seem most
consistent with the claim that a liberal political bias exists in the
mainstream news media.
How to Detect Bias in the News: At one time or other we all complain
about "bias in the news." The fact is, despite the journalistic ideal
of "objectivity," every news story is influenced by the attitudes and
background of its interviewers, writers, photographers and editors.
Not all bias is deliberate. But you can become a more aware news
reader or viewer by watching for [these] journalistic techniques that
allow bias to "creep in" to the news.
Affirmative Action for Conservatives: Thomas Edsall, who served for
many years as the top political journalist for the Washington Post,
has told Hugh Hewitt on his radio show that Democrats outnumber
Republicans in the national press corps by a margin of anywhere from
15 or 25 to 1. That is important personal testimony and evidence from
someone who toiled in the mainstream media.
We are biased, admit the stars of BBC News. It was the day that a
host of BBC executives and star presenters admitted what critics have
been telling them for years: the BBC is dominated by trendy, Left-
leaning liberals who are biased against Christianity and in favour of
multiculturalism.
Fair and Balanced? You Bet. I worked in newsrooms for most of 30
years, with a couple of breaks for grad school and political campaign
work. I can say with confidence that I can count on one hand the
conservatives I worked with during those years in mainstream news.
They fall into two categories: those with whom I worked in the early
1970s who were relics of the days when you might actually find a
conservative in a newsroom, and a couple in the 1990s who, like me,
had made a gradual transition from left to right.
Michael Moore and Bill Clinton: Birds of a Feather. The public has a
right to know why Clinton didn't catch bin Laden and when "facts" in
Moore's documentary aren't true. Moore and Clinton's reactions prod
the public to view skepticism and balance as biased attack. Clinton
even called it "a conservative hit job" and that the public questions
about his role in not stopping bin Laden were there due to "a serious
disinformation campaign to create that impression." Plenty of
conservatives have been the benefactors of "liberal hit jobs" on NBC,
ABC, and CBS but it happens so often, usually no one notices.
Media Anarchy Has Its Downside. One can't exaggerate how large Fox
looms in the liberal imagination. They see it as huge and mighty and
credit it with almost mythical powers. It is a propaganda channel
whose mission it is to destroy the Democratic Party. That's part of
why Clintons' performance had such salience. Finally he was standing
up to an evil empire.
Attacking the Messenger: The Left Unhinged by The Fox News Channel.
Since the dawn of the information age, groups have tried to manipulate
news organizations by going after their advertisers. … Even in the
recent attacks on the Fox News Channel, groups have used Rupert
Murdoch's relationship with cigarette maker Philip Morris and how that
led to Murdoch's vast media empire ignoring stories about the negative
effects of smoking. It isn't enough, however, to try to control the
behavior of the American people by controlling the legal products they
have access to in the marketplace. The left wants to control what you
think and read by controlling your information sources.
Prepping the '08 Media Battlefield: The left hates Fox because it
reports things that ABC, NBC, CBS, the New York Times and the
Washington Post would otherwise conceal from the public. The war on
Fox will continue, because the libs know it's essential to prepare the
battlefield for the 2008 election. If they can marginalize Fox — and
even revive the old "fairness doctrine" to kill conservative talk
radio — they could restore the left's monopoly on national news. So
what are Republicans doing in response? Nothing.
Crazy like a Fox (News). As Fox News celebrates its 10-year
anniversary, media watchers should appreciate how Fox, which tilts
right, has provided balance to major new operations such as CNN and
the New York Times, which tilt left. Go to most newsrooms and you'll
find a staff that overwhelmingly voted for John Kerry in 2004, while
the rest keep their politics to themselves lest they be considered
biased. A survey of the Washington press corps found that 89 percent
voted for Bill Clinton in 1992.
Liberal Media Allergic to American Values. Elite news editors shrug
at their reporters' highly politicized activities — from AIDS fund-
raisers to pro-abortion rallies, environmental propaganda and unhinged
Bush-bashing (new case in point: New York Times reporter Linda
Greenhouse's recent moonbatty screed at Harvard University assailing
everything from Gitmo to the Mexican-U.S. border fence). But wear a
flag pin? Heresy!
Big Government Solutions Don't Work. Politics as usual is aided by
the complicity of the media. Economic ignorance, bleeding heart
emotionalism, and populist passion pervade our major networks and
cable channels. ... In countries where everyone knows the media
produces government propaganda, people remain wary of what they hear.
In the United States the media are considered free and independent,
thus the propaganda is accepted with less questioning.
Meet the Real Katie Couric. On September 5, Katie Couric took the
helm of the CBS Evening News, a program tainted by decades of Dan
Rather's liberal bias. But a review of Couric's 15 years as co-host
of NBC's Today finds that she brings her own liberal baggage, and she
seems unlikely to challenge the biased approach that has eroded the
credibility of CBS News and the rest of the media elite.
New Network, Same Old Biased Katie. After more than two decades in
which Dan Rather used his anchor desk to push a liberal agenda —
culminating in the forged document scandal in 2004 — the CBS Evening
News needed its new anchor to be the epitome of fair and balanced
journalism. Instead, the CBS brass hired Katie Couric, who put her
liberal fingerprints all over Today during her 15 years at NBC.
Talk about extreme … Rosie O'Donnell takes a back seat to no one.
When the real Rosie showed up a few years ago, throwing haymakers from
the Far Left in her talk show, her public appearances and her
magazine, the public backlash was severe. So she took a sabbatical,
to get "married," adopt kids and set up a family home. Now she's
back, lured on the airwaves for "The View," a talk show which claims
to represent the opinions of women. That's presumptuous in the first
place; no show really reflects the infinite variety of female
thought. It's also sexist. Imagine a program which claimed to be the
last word in men's opinions. The gender warriors would be out in
force.
Reporting, opinions and 'just plain rude'. Reporters have an
obligation to maintain an objective approach to the stories they
cover. That's not to say they don't have opinions, but if they are
going to have credibility as reporters, they need to keep those
opinions out of their stories. Instead, we've grown used to reporters
becoming talking heads on television, where they speculate incessantly
about the meaning of stories or the outcome of stories or the virtue
of the people they write about.
The database double standard. Here is the most insincere question a
liberal TV news star can ask: How can President Bush turn around his
poll numbers? … The media's crocodile tears are not even laughable,
just nauseating. Pushing down the president's approval rating seems
to be their daily task.
Media bias on full display. The reason to point out that this
military tribunal case was actually a 5-4 decision is because other
5-4 decisions get reported in a very different way. For example, when
the court upheld the University of Michigan law school's use of race
in admissions in a 5-4 decision, [one of the nation's most important
and influential newspapers] called the ruling "deeply divided."
You Can't Spell Pap Without the AP. Like many of its contributing
entities, it is a mere shell of its formerly unbiased self.
The Collapse of Network News: For the last decade or two, the Big
Three network news ratings have declined and their once-iron grip on
public opinion has loosened, prompting this debate: is this decline
merely a sign of increasing 24-7 media availability (cable news,
Internet sites) or is the liberal tilt of the networks driving
conservative viewers away from these networks in favor of alternative
outlets?
The Media Adore Warren Buffett. Buffett targets people in general,
not just a particular group. In a press release, [Rev. Thomas J.]
Euteneuer took aim at almost every aspect of Buffett's agenda, saying
that "Warren Buffett's philanthropy aims at killing pre-born children
not curing childhood disease, eliminating the poor not poverty, and
destroying the developing world not aiding development." That may
seem harsh. But while [Bill] Gates is dedicated to "global health"
issues, he, too, underwrites the pro-abortion agenda.
DisHonors Awards 2006: The most outrageously biased liberal reporters
of 2005.
The political Pulitzers. The recent unveiling of the Pulitzer Prizes
had more of the same politicized whiff that the Oscars oozed earlier
this year. Merit is taking a back seat now to "edginess" in both the
news and entertainment media.
Vote against an unethical media. To my fellow conservatives,
Republicans, and even independents, who are so frustrated with some in
the GOP for abandoning the principles of our party, that you plan to
sit out this election, I implore you to change your mind. While I
share your anger and disappointment, I am still eagerly going to vote
on November 7th for one simple reason. To stop those in the
mainstream media trying to hijack this election.
Will the Media Drown in an 06 Election 'Wave'? Like sportscasters,
political pundits resort to clichés when the game isn't going
according to their predictions. If the expected Democratic "wave"
fails to materialize — or if, against the odds, an electoral wave
breaks to the Republicans' advantage — the punditry will be flooding
the airwaves with clichés, backpedaling like a French army. But
pundits, like weathermen, recover easily from wrong predictions.
Bush-hatred is a threat to national security. Would newspapers in the
midst of World War II have printed the fact that the United States had
broken German and Japanese codes, enabling the enemy to secure its
communications? Or revealed how and where Nazi spies were being
interrogated? Nowadays, newspapers win Pulitzer Prizes for such
disclosures.
Give Back the Tainted Pulitzers. It's a shame and a tragedy when the
nation's two major papers win Pulitzer Prizes for running stories
harming national security that were clearly based on questionable
sources with a partisan political agenda.
The BBC's commitment to bias is no laughing matter. It's high time
the debate moved on from narrow notions of political bias. Far harder
for the BBC to gainsay is that it has a liberal cultural bias, one
that envelops pretty much all programmes, not just news and current
affairs. If you want to find the most solid evidence of partiality,
look at the BBC's entertainment output — its dramas, comedies and arts
programmes.
The Clintonite who owns National Enquirer. What the tabloid's
readers, in politics and out, may not know is that a key owner of the
Enquirer is a prominent New York investment banker and one of Hillary
Clinton's key backers, Roger Altman. Altman was an official in the
first Clinton administration, and his name is often mentioned as a
possible Clinton Treasury Secretary.
The media's partisan "domestic spying" fight. When given a choice
between more information about our intelligence-gathering methods and
less safety, or less information about our intelligence-gathering and
more safety, which do the public choose? The public tends to prefer
more safety. The media prefer more information. And the media would
prefer the public believe it agrees with them, even if it has to cook
a few surveys to establish that canard.
More information about the "domestic spying" issue can be found here.
All the news... It's always fascinating to return from travel
overseas and step back into the alternative universe of America's
media elites. … Coming back to Washington is a reminder of just how
anti-American the American media elites really have become.
AWOL in the War of Ideas. It's one thing to give the devil his due.
It's another to do the devil's public relations. How else to explain
a dispatch from the Associated Press referring to Osama bin Laden as
"an exiled Saudi dissident"? Such spin may not be inaccurate but it's
like calling Jeffery Dahmer an "eccentric gourmet." It rather misses
the point, don't you think?
The Decline of Mainstream Media: What common sense has comprehended
for decades now finds support by yet another scholarly study: The
media has a leftist bias. … As if to confirm that bias, over the past
few months, the media have given this research scant coverage. … The
researchers expected to find a left-leaning bias, but were astonished
at just how behemoth this left-wing bias is.
The Late Jeane Kirkpatrick Warned of Media's 'Unaccountable Power'.
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, who passed away Friday morning, adapted a 1983
speech on the influence of the news media, into the forward for the
Media Research Center's 1990 book, And That's the Way It Isn't: A
Reference Guide to Media Bias. She proposed: "Some people believe,
and I am among them, that the power of the media today constitutes the
most significant exercise of unaccountable power in our society."
Simply Put, the US Mainstream Media Provides an Inferior Product. The
prevailing opinion among the overwhelming majority of the American
public is that there are some very big problems with the mainstream
media. The most common problems noted are the unarguable existence of
a political agenda and the elitist pose displayed toward the American
public and those who govern. While I generally agree with both of
these observations, I also believe, when all is said and done, that we
are simply being offered an inferior product.
American journalism's founding fathers: People on the left and right
fault contemporary journalism for (a) giving the Bush administration a
free ride, or (b) extreme bias against all things Bush and
Republican. Charges of media bias and the controversy over good vs.
bad journalism are older than the nation, literally.
Deceptive Polling: Polls are among the most telling expressions of
bias in the media. They are very often agenda-driven, used to make a
political point, or to pile on a favorite target. The most
controversial and flawed poll that has been most cited in recent weeks
has been the CBS News poll finding that President Bush's approval
rating was down to 34%. But another poll, purporting to find that
U.S. troops are weary of the Iraq War or want a premature withdrawal,
is also suspect.
Media Polls: Pimping for Obama? Polls are manipulated in a number of
ways, including question wording, the order in which questions are
asked, and how respondents are chosen. ... Pollsters acknowledge that
they are oversampling among three demographics that the Obama campaign
is targeting: young people, minorities and Democrats.
CNN Poll: All Americans Are Racists. For creating a story out of
nothing and then finger pointing at US society and saying how evil it
is, this Dec. 12th CNN story takes the cake. In "Poll: Most
Americans see lingering racism — in others", not only is a somewhat
leading poll cited as evidence that America is still rife with racism,
but CNN uses comments emailed to them by their viewers as some sort of
follow up proof for it!
NBC/WSJ Poll: What The 'Today' Show Didn't Report. These days, it is
almost as telling what little gems media organizations choose to hide
from the public about their own polls as what they share. The release
of the most recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll is a fine example.
Pollster guilty of fake data conspiracy: A polling company owner
admitted participating in a conspiracy to falsify data in order to
meet deadlines for clients.
Suspicious Surveys: You can be sure that when the media release a
poll tied to a major news event, it's often biased. … Take the ABC
poll. It was conducted from Aug. 17 to 24. Yet for some reason it
wasn't released until Sept. 10, the day Petraeus delivered his much-
anticipated report on the surge. We also wonder who actually
conducted this poll on the ground in Iraq. Hope they weren't the same
local reporters and translators that U.S. newspapers and TV networks
employ, many of whom have been found to be less than credible.
Media polls as instruments of propaganda. The MSM's relentless
propagation of Democrat-generated dezinformatsia has portrayed
Operation Iraqi Freedom as a quagmire, the booming economy as an
unjust bust and the President as a lawless spy and has even suggested
that George Bush is at fault for high fuel prices. All this certainly
has taken its toll in the polls. These polls become self-fulfilling
when the MSM incessantly pushes a particular perspective, polls the
indoctrinated masses in search of that perspective and then reports
the results as "news."
Speaking of deception...
Sacrificing truth on the altar of diversity. Houghton Mifflin's ploy
was recently described by reporter Daniel Golden in a Wall Street
Journal story on the lengths to which publishers go to get images of
minorities and the disabled into grade-school textbooks. A Houghton
Mifflin spokesman claimed that able-bodied models are presented as
handicapped only as a last resort. But according to one of the
company's regular photographers, the deception is the norm. At least
three-fourths of the children portrayed as disabled in Houghton
Mifflin textbooks actually aren't, she told Golden.
Note: Other examples of what is now called news "fauxtography" are
shown at the top of this page.
Dow Jones Chairman on Media Power: We're Goliath, Not David. One of
the most persistent tics of the passive-aggressive press is its
denials of its power, that it doesn't run the country, or at least try
to run the country. All that journalism-school boilerplate about how
the media is merely a watchdog, or like it's the BASF of democracy,
you know, it doesn't make everything, it just makes the secret
ingredient that makes everything better? Baloney. Some of us signed
up for the media-criticism business because the media want to pretend
they're not major players in the political process….
The Fourth Estate and Public Opinion: Several studies to assess the
political views of national reporters in the major press pools of
Washington and New York find that those reporters overwhelmingly self-
identify as "liberal" or "Democrat." A recent survey, in fact,
determined that only eight percent of those reporters would vote for a
Republican — no surprise to objective media analysts.
The scandalmongering co-presidents: To [the news media, President
Bush is] the enemy, and he must be taken out. And they're doing
everything they can to make that happen, including rigging the polls
against him by oversampling Democrats, and including nonvoters along
with voters, to make him appear even less popular than he apparently
is.
Media Madness: Those who wonder why fewer and fewer Americans are
buying newspapers or tuning into network "news" need only look at this
week's coverage to see why. "Hard" news stories are harder to come by
every day, and those events and issues that do get coverage carry more
than just a "tinge" of bias, ignorance or both.
New York Times: Less Communism = Bad News for Chinese People.
Apparently, not even the communists are socialistic enough for the New
York Times.
Media Maelstrom Over Michael Brown. "Where do I go to get my
reputation back?" Ray Donovan, President Reagan's Labor secretary,
poignantly asked that question when, after the media had adjudged him
guilty, he was acquitted in court of corruption charges. Former FEMA
Director Michael Brown might ask the same question.
The news media. Surveys galore have shown that somewhere around 90
percent of the writers, editors and other personnel in the news media
are Democrats and only about 10 percent are Republicans. We depend on
the news media for information about government and politics, foreign
affairs and war, public policy and demographic trends — for a picture
of the world around us. But the news comes from people 90 percent of
whom are on one side of the political divide. Doesn't sound like an
ideal situation.
The pendulum is swinging away from patriotism. When I was growing up,
Veteran's Day, then called Armistice Day, was a great national
holiday, with parades and expressions of gratitude to the military
troops who kept this country free. Now it is hardly recognized.
December 7, the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor which
started World War II, is barely mentioned in the news, but there is
extensive coverage in the media on the anniversary of the first atomic
attack on Hiroshima, and later, Nagasaki.
Bob Schieffer Plays Patty-Cake With Ray Nagin on "Face the Nation".
There was nothing, first and foremost on the journalist's plate, about
Nagin's wild exaggerations about a death toll of 10,000 and the
rampant rape and murder he and his top cops gave to the national
media. There was no question asking Nagin about his utter failure to
order a mandatory evacuation until the last minute. There was no
question asking Nagin about his failure to evacuate citizens by city
bus or Amtrak train. There was no question asking Nagin about race-
baiting and finger-pointing at FEMA and Team Bush.
All quiet on Hillary's plantation. With [Al] Sharpton proudly looking
on, [Hillary Rodham Clinton] threw the race card on the table with a
big, noisy thwack. "When you look at the way the House of
Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and
you know what I'm talking about." … Had Trent Lott uttered those words
last week about Democrats, today he'd be unhappily retired in
Mississippi. But it was Hillary attacking Republicans, so the news
coverage was very, very different.
New evidence of left-wing media bias. A new study from UCLA confirms
that the media veers sharply to the left. Of 20 major news outlets
studied, 18 tilt to the left.
The Plot to Kill the President: Forty-two years to the day after
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, an American
Muslim was convicted of joining the terrorist organization Al Qaeda
and plotting to assassinate President Bush. A lot of media attention
was devoted to the former but not the latter. Could that be because
the media loved Kennedy but hate Bush?
BBC edits out the word "terrorist". The BBC has re-edited some of its
coverage of the London Underground and bus bombings to avoid labelling
the perpetrators as "terrorists", it was disclosed yesterday. Early
reporting of the attacks on the BBC's website spoke of terrorists but
the same coverage was changed to describe the attackers simply as
"bombers".
Media Bias Is Real, Finds UCLA Political Scientist. While the
editorial page of The Wall Street Journal is conservative, the
newspaper's news pages are liberal, even more liberal than The New
York Times. The Drudge Report may have a right-wing reputation, but
it leans left. Coverage by public television and radio is
conservative compared to the rest of the mainstream media. Meanwhile,
almost all major media outlets tilt to the left.
The Best Notable Quotables of 2005. The 18th annual awards for the
year's worst reporting.
Christmas Is Getting Less Merry Every Year. Just when you think you
have it figured out, life kicks you in the back of the knee. Over my
30-year career in journalism, I have tried to resist generalizing
about the media. You know, that it is rife with left-wing loons bent
on imposing a secular society on the country. In the past, I would
have never said that. But that was then, this is now. I have come to
believe that the American press is so secular Karl Marx would be
appalled.
L.A. Times admits false claim about Falwell. A column by a rabbi
published in the Los Angeles Times falsely asserted Rev. Jerry Falwell
claimed lesbian actress Ellen DeGeneres played a role in the 9-11
attacks and Hurricane Katrina because she was the host of the Emmy
Awards before both events. The Times ran a correction explaining the
Baptist minister "made no such claim."
The Leftward Course Of Human Events. [The managing editor of Human
Events was forced to resign upon the insistence of the Southern
Poverty Law Center.] How do you explain to your wife that you lost
your job — not for some work-related grievance — but for exercising
your first-amendment rights and, as a freelancer, expressing a point
of view?
Substitute Any Other Group and the Liberals Would Be Howling. The
world's largest news service, the Associated Press, sent out a story
today with an alarming headline that the appointment of Judge Samuel
Alito to the Supreme Court would "tip" the Supreme Court to
Catholics. The story went on to identify the religion of each member
of the court and indicated Alito's appointment as another indication
that "Catholics have become part of the nation's political
mainstream."
Wahington Post Goes After the Roberts' Children. If you can't come up
with something disgusting about the actual nominee or his wife then
rough-up the kids some and see what happens.
Sen. Hutchison: Roberts line crossed. Citing "simple decency," Texas
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison demanded Friday [8/5/2005] that journalists
quit poking around for details on Supreme Court nominee John Roberts'
adopted children.
The People, the Press, and the Pulpit: The increasingly important
role of religion in public life presents a challenge for the press.
The media have particularly low credibility in this area — even
journalists themselves have doubts about their ability to cover
religious issues. Public and press concerns reflect a huge but
familiar gap: on the one hand, the American public is one of the most
religious in the West. At the same time, there are more than a few
non-believers in the nation's newsrooms.
Outlawing Thanksgiving Here and Abroad. Everybody had a good laugh on
November 17 [2004] when President Bush pardoned two Thanksgiving
turkeys named Biscuits and Gravy. The Washington Post noted that the
event was covered by "dozens of international reporters, photographers
and television cameramen." But the stories we saw in the Post, on CNN
and elsewhere neglected to mention that the President went on to speak
eloquently about the religious significance of Thanksgiving. The
media are clearly uncomfortable with the topic.
A petty, partisan press. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that the
media are less concerned about the big picture today, or how all this
will look in history, than with how the Bush administration's victory
in Iraq will affect the 2004 elections. After all, studies have shown
that nine out of ten journalists vote for the Democrats.
Liberal whining about the media: In its search for What Went Wrong,
liberalism has decided to admit that it has a problem. Surprisingly,
the problem is us — the news media. We went wrong, or rather, right.
We went and became conservative.
Journalistic bias? Part II: The question posed in my previous column
— “Does a (still) largely liberal news media (still) exhibit a largely
liberal bias?” — can be answered both as a matter of logic and as a
matter of fact, and in both cases, the answer is: Sure.
NBC News Blames Bush for Iranian Threat. Andrea Mitchell seemed
extremely concerned that the new Iranian president may turn out to be
one of those [1979] hostage-takers, and that his election may play
into the hands of the Bush Administration. In other words, don't
blame the Iranian government for the fact that it is run by terrorists
who hate America. Blame Bush.
Raising the bar: It seems the world of media — somewhat self-
righteous at its worst — is in a bit of a philosophical pickle on this
one. For starters, many of the supporters of the notion to protect
anonymous sources are the same publishers, editors and broadcasters
who helped make this the year of "open government" and "open records."
How the Media Created Rovegate: It's clear, based on the notes of his
discussion with Matt Cooper of Time, that Rove wasn't aware of the
facts and didn't have access to classified information about Valerie
Plame's service or status in the CIA. He said she "apparently" worked
at the agency. In any case, it turns out she isn't covered under a
law designed to protect the identities of secret CIA agents.
What If Karl Rove Were A Democrat? The Center for Individual Freedom
has provided an excellent list of cases involving Democratic officials
possibly violating national security or using classified information
that have been ignored or glossed over by the major media. It's hard
not to conclude that the media are targeting Rove because he is a
conservative Republican.
The Dems' obsession: The Democrats and the Old Media are getting as
much mileage as they can out of President Bush's reportedly low
approval ratings. But the smart money says they ought to be more
concerned about their own problems.
Extreme Conservatives vs. Unlabeled Liberals. Study shows there have
been six times More "Conservative" than "Liberal" labels on network
news since election day.
A seminar in old media liberal bias: For an object lesson on Old
Media liberal bias, read the transcript of the May 17 press briefing
by White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan.
Liberal Media Lashes Out at Christians. The culture wars have turned
nastier than ever. And if conservative Christians are offended by
being called insane, stupid, sinister — or even the next incarnation
of fascist storm troopers — they'd better get used to it. The news
media is a major player in these cultural conflicts, and if there was
ever a pretense of impartiality when it came to liberal versus
conservative, or secular versus religious, that disguise has been
stripped away.
Disgraceful. Most media hiring today is from universities where a
military career is regarded as bizarre and almost any exercise of
American power is considered wrongheaded or evil.
Fired Christian Radio Host Sees Ecumenism Behind Dismissal. An
evangelical Christian talk-show host is speaking out after being fired
from the largest Christian broadcasting network in the country for
questioning whether certain Roman Catholic beliefs were biblical.
Expert Mistrusts Polls Showing Public Support for Homosexuals in
Military. A conservative military watchdog says she does not agree
with several media polls that show increased public acceptance for
allowing homosexuals to serve openly in the U.S. military.
The MSM's life and death distortions: However you feel about the
Terri Schiavo case, one fact is indisputable: The mainstream media
coverage of the matter has been abysmal. On a fundamental matter of
life and death, the MSM heavyweights have proven themselves utterly
incapable of reporting fairly.
America's One-Sided Campus Media: For the past sixteen months I have
been a weekly opinion columnist for UCLA's newspaper, the Daily Bruin,
and have seen exactly how media bias works. … From the high and mighty
editor to the yeoman reporter, the newsroom is the liberals' private
party. The conservatives in the newsroom are not welcome — and it's
made certain they understand that.
The Joseph Goebbels award. Events of this past year have shown the
need for a special award in journalism for those who think that the
purpose of reporting news is to cause the public to adopt the
political views of those who do the reporting.
A Tsunami of Media Bias Hits America. The anti-Bush media bias that
preceded the President's re-election was back in a big way at the end
of the year when officials of the United Nations and some influential
journalists started a campaign blaming the U.S. for being "stingy" and
"slow" to respond to the Asian tsunami disaster. The purpose of the
campaign was two-fold — to rehabilitate the U.N., making the
organization look relevant in world affairs, and to damage Bush
politically as he attempts badly needed legislative reforms of the
Social Security, legal, and income tax systems.
This Just In: Liberal Media Bias Comes to a Halt. Gone are the days
when the Big Three networks, plus the New York Times and the
Washington Post, decided what was newsworthy, usually with a liberal
spin.
Confirming John Roberts: Journalists walk around with the knee-jerk
assumption that they are the most essential forces of democracy, there
to enrich the nation and its citizens. They truly see themselves as
the conscience of the country, the First Amendment ideal in the flesh.
Ari's bias briefing: Fleischer was impressive in the nearly
impossible job of keeping the anti-Bush hounds of the press at bay.
They were harsh in the first days, when they were bitter about not
getting to suck up to President Gore. They were hostile in the last
days, as John Kerry's chances slipped away.
U.N. Covers Up Payments to Journalists. Ian Williams of The Nation
magazine, has been on the United Nations payroll, writing articles for
the world body and even coaching U.N. officials on how to deal with
the press. … Accuracy in Media has learned that the U.N. has been
paying journalists here and abroad to spread the U.N. message to an
American and international audience.
Fourth estate or fifth column. There are still people in the
mainstream media who profess bewilderment that they are accused of
being biased. But you need to look no further than reporting on the
war in Iraq to see the bias staring you in the face, day after day, on
the front page of the New York Times and in much of the rest of the
media.
Fred Barnes Calls Sheehan a "Crackpot," Rues Media Focus on Her.
Barnes criticized both her and the media's treatment of her: "This
woman wants to go in and tell the President that the war is about oil
because the President wants to pay off his buddies. She's a crackpot,
and yet the press treats her as some important protestor."
Rather Is Gone; Whining About Leftist Media Is Not. Mark it well —
the media does lean left. News that comes our way is, for the most
part, devoid of a perspective that reflects anything close to a Judeo-
Christian, culturally- and economically-conservative position.
Liberal and Conservative as Defined by the Media. Obviously American
notions of "liberal" and "conservative" don't translate well to the
complicated muddle that is politics in the former Soviet Union. Yet
that doesn't stop the American media from pretending as though they
do. Why? Because to the establishment press, "liberal" and
"conservative" aren't so much ideological descriptions as moral ones.
"Liberal" is the literary equivalent of a white hat for the good guys,
while "conservative" is a black hat for the bad.
The news, askew. Ideally, news should "slant" to the truth.
Practically, the presentation of news usually skews towards
sensationalism. As news consumers, we accept this, though too rarely
compensate for it.
Ted Turner Compares Fox's Popularity to Hitler. Ted Turner called Fox
a propaganda tool of the Bush administration and indirectly compared
Fox News Channel's popularity to Adolf Hitler's popular election to
run Germany before World War II. Turner made those fiery comments in
his first address at the National Association for Television
Programming Executives' conference since he was ousted from Time
Warner Inc. five years ago.
Big-Media Dinosaurs Face Extinction. As the big-media Dinosaurs die
off one by one — the catastrophic meteor to blame for their impending
extinction is their own damning construct — their transparent liberal
bias. That bias is now, and will continue to be the fossil fuel
driving tomorrow's new media — a new media whose long awaited arrival,
and much needed influence has already begun.
Egregious leftism in the media: Most of the guilty insist they are
mere mainstreamers, centrists – yet surely they know better. They
betray themselves when they open their mouths.
How Newt Gingrich Caused 9/11: George W. Bush's record of
accomplishment doesn't sit well with the History Channel, which
recently linked the ascendancy of Newt Gingrich to 9/11. The
President's words shot in the face of the liberal establishment, and
the History Channel's words seem to have been written by the liberal
establishment.
Washington Post Buys Slate.com Where Nearly All Voted for Kerry. In
acquiring Microsoft's Slate.com, the Washington Post bought a Web
magazine at which nearly every editor and reporter voted for Al Gore
in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004. Slate.com headlined an October 26
article about a survey of their own staff: "At this magazine, it's
Kerry by a landslide!" In 2000, 12 of the 13 in the top editorial
positions voted for Gore, with the 13th going not for Bush but the
libertarian.
Newsweek's Senators to watch: After perusing the year-end issue of
Newsweek, I defy any editor there to deny this magazine is a
mouthpiece for the political Left. Their cover boy was Senator-Elect
Barack Obama of Illinois, the "rising star," as the Democrats and so
many admirers in the press have dubbed him. … Barack Obama is just
another ultraliberal legislator from a blue state, another Teddy,
another Hillary — another politician only the liberal media wants to
usher into power. And "News"-week is leading the charge.
The party of government. A Pew Research Center survey of journalists
and media executives conducted earlier this year found journalists
identify themselves as liberals as opposed to conservatives by a five-
to-one margin. In a 1997 poll for the Center for Media & Public
Affairs, 66 percent of respondents agreed that news media "favor a
liberal point of view." A Freedom Forum survey found that 89 percent
of the Washington press corps voted for Bill Clinton over George H.W.
Bush and Ross Perot in 1992, while Clinton garnered only 43 percent of
the popular vote.
Media: Ashcroft Was Worse Than Arafat. It might seem odd to compare
and contrast two recent news stories — the resignation announcement of
Attorney General John Ashcroft and the Paris death of Palestinian
terrorist Yasser Arafat. But an examination of the two demonstrates
the degree to which the "news" media's compass of objectivity is so
terribly misaligned. To read the coverage, you'd think Ashcroft was
the tyrant and Arafat the liberator.
The fourth estate rumbles for more privilege. Maybe you haven't
noticed, but the mainstream media are suffering from the perception
that they're just the teeniest bit arrogant. Oh, who am I kidding?
They behave like they're nobles or a priestly class. Dan Rather,
Brian Williams and Peter Jennings might as well wear flowing ermine
robes. From their palaces in midtown Manhattan they determine what
the peasants see and read.
Black Clergy Denounces "Racial Motivated Attacks" on Condoleezza
Rice. A coalition of black clergy Friday [11/19/2004] denounced
recent "racial motivated attacks" by three editorial cartoonists, the
Washington Post and the New York Times upon National Security Adviser
Dr. Condoleezza Rice, who was recently nominated by President Bush to
serve as the next secretary of state.
Obama fever: Here are a few mainstream media rules of thumb:
Minority Democrats in public office are inspirational role models.
Minority Republicans in public office are embarrassing sellouts.
Minority Democrat politicians are principled. Minority Republican
politicians are misguided. Minority Democrat politicians represent
the hopes and dreams of all Americans. Minority Republican
politicians are traitors to their "communities." These rules are
unwritten, of course, but the minority politician double standard is
glaringly obvious in the national media fawning over newly elected
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, Illinois Democrat.
Van Gordon Sauter, president of CBS News 25 years ago, on CBS News
today:
"For one thing, it has no credibility. And no audience, no morale, no
long-term emblematic anchorman, and no cohesive management structure.
Outside those annoyances, it shouldn't be that hard to fix. … I
stopped watching it some time ago. The unremitting liberal
orientation finally became too much for me."
What they didn't teach in Journalism school: In [the] Wall Street
Journal, Fred Barnes writes about a GOP official asking a group of
twenty or so journalists how many knew personally an evangelical
Christian. Only a couple of hands went up. Then the offical asked
how many knew a homosexual and every hand went up. Although
conservative Christians make up 40% of the population and homosexuals
make up under 5%, elite journalists don't know any Christians. That
shows up whenever they try to report on Christians or Christianity.
The Media Elite: Where do they stand? Robert and Linda Richter, of
the Center for Media and Public Affairs, surveyed 104 of the "most
influential television writers, producers, and executives" to find out
where they stood on the issues. Their results are as follows:
• 93% seldom or never attend religious services.
• 75% describe themselves as left of center politically,
compared to only 14% who place themselves to the right of
center.
• 97% believe that "a woman has the right to decide for herself"
whether to have an abortion.
• 80% do not regard homosexual relations as wrong.
• 86% support the right of homosexuals to teach in public schools.
• 51% do not regard adultery as wrong.
• Only 17% strongly agree that extramarital affairs are wrong.
What Liberalism Hides Behind Bylines? The Dan Rather/CBS fiasco,
together with its arrogant, delayed, pathetic and mostly unbelievable
attempts at justification, introduces a more subtle, and perhaps more
inimical, subject. What militant liberalism lies hidden beneath the
bylines of so many reporters who write news, or alleged news, for the
print media?
Liberal media bias: here's the proof. Folks know what Liberal Media
Bias is. Even those who deny it have to know what the rest of us are
talking about. Anybody can read it between the lines, see it on CBS
(also ABC and NBC), hear it on NPR, and almost feel it, it's so thick
at times. Like an oil slick over the news, LMB permeates American
journalism's elite. But defining Liberal Media Bias isn't easy.
Excuse me, sir, your bias is showing. An article in the most recent
issue of American Journalism Review reveals another layer of bias in
broadcast journalism. According to the article, network journalists
routinely lobby politicians they cover for favorable votes on
broadcast regulation. The article tells how politicians whose votes
benefit broadcasters receive awards from the industry. Legislators
who do not vote the way the networks want get threatened with negative
coverage on the evening news. According to AJR, "We need to see the
media business for what it truly has turned into: a huge economic
special interest."
Media Critic Has Sharp Words for Media's "Radical" Style of News
Reporting. One of the nation's leading media watchdogs says there is
a powerful element of the media today that has gone beyond mere
"liberalism" and has moved into "sheer radicalism."
What media bias? Larry Elder cites several examples of blatant
political bias in network television news coverage.
The Liberal Media: Every poll shows journalists are more liberal than
the American public — and the public knows it. Leading journalists
may deny their bias, but every survey over the past 25 years shows
journalists do not think or vote like the American public. Reporters
overwhelmingly vote for Democrats, their views on issues such as
abortion and gay rights are well to the left of most Americans, and
large majorities want big government even more involved in the
economy.
L.A. Times poll skewed. Kerry, Bush survey sample was 38% Democrats,
25% Republicans
"Partial truth" abortion: Many in the media resent any suggestion
that they are either politically biased or that journalists' personal
views stop them from doing a good professional job of accurately
reporting the news. The way the issue of partial birth abortion has
been reported — or not reported — gives the lie to such protests.
Nixon, Bush and the Media: The press treatment of George W. Bush is
motivated by hate, spite and a vicious disregard for the truth and the
national interest. What the media is doing to Bush is unprecedented —
worse than what was done to Nixon because it lacks journalistic
virtuosity. What the media is doing to Bush is inexcusable because,
unlike in the case of Watergate, there is no smoking gun, precisely
because there was no crime.
Newsroom conservatives are a rare breed. If you'd like to check out
an endangered species, don't bother with a trip to the zoo. Just drop
by the newsroom of your favorite newspaper or TV station and ask to
see the conservatives.
Liberal media? I'm shocked! A new survey by the Pew Research Center
says journalists have political and ideological leanings more liberal
than those of the general public. Or, as a sensible headline might
have put it: "Researchers ferret out the obvious yet again."
More Stuff the Left Has Gotten Away With Lately: The partisan
mainstream media hates it when the Right points out their bias. But
sometimes we just can't help it. Here are three recent comments by
well known liberal senators that received little comment in the Big
Media. Thankfully, conservative sources will not let things like
these slide.
Liberal media show their stripes every day. Media bias determines
which stories make it to the front page and which ones don't.
For truth in journalism: Do the people have a right to know the
biases of the people from whom they get almost all their information
about politics, politicians, candidates and causes? Seems to me that
an honest journalist has to answer yes.
Tom Brokaw vs. conservative "jihad": In an interview with Jane Hall
in the most recent Columbia Journalism Review, Brokaw suggests there
is no such thing as liberal media bias … and then asserts that liberal
bias is an "obligation" of journalism.
A Lesson in Dallas: Hitting the street and answering that leftist
rant is one way even a small group of conservatives can force their
message to stand next to the radicals in the so-called mainstream
press. Just don't expect much coverage from the press.
Hate speech from the left: In December 1994 I wrote the first of what
would become a yearly series of columns on the subject of liberal hate
speech. I had noticed that when a prominent Republican or
conservative said something offensive about liberals, it typically set
off a storm of media condemnation, while an anti-conservative smear
voiced by a liberal or a Democrat rarely drew any protest.
The Communist Party And The American Media Elite: Is America's left-
wing media elite about to suffer the fate of the Communist Party of
the old Soviet Union? I ask this question because my weekend reading
raised some interesting parallels between the Soviet leadership and
the current structure of the US news media.
Liberal media bias, part I: Bernard Goldberg, author of the
bestselling "Bias" says, "If the media elites don't take the wake-up
call, ...I think they're going to become the journalistic equivalent
of the leisure suit — harmless enough, but hopelessly out of date."
Liberal media bias, part II: Journalists somehow think that they are
the only species on the planet who can keep their biases in check
because they're professionals. Well, I don't think that's true.
Liberal Media Bias, part III: The problem there and the problem far
more responsible for the public's losing trust is when the New York
Times rams ideology down your throat in every part of the newspaper,
not simply the editorial page.
Give Public Broadcasting its Freedom — Now. Philanthropist Joan
Kroc's recent gift of $200 million to National Public Radio adds to
the millions of dollars in tax-deductible donations from corporate
underwriters and private citizens that pour into public broadcasting
coffers each year. In light of the Kroc gift, and with growing
evidence that public broadcasting has been almost totally
commercialized, isn't it time to wean public radio and television from
the millions of dollars it receives from national, state and local
governments?
Does the media give soft-glove treatment to Democratic gaffes?
Critics of President George W. Bush derive great pleasure from his
inability to pronounce the word "nuclear." As a candidate, they
ridiculed Bush for not knowing the heads of Pakistan, Chechnya and
India. But what of the gaffes made by various liberal politicians?
Journalists' liberal bias: Why it matters, how it hurts. Liberal
bias matters. This bias affects consumers of "news" in subtle and not-
so-subtle ways.
We Distort, You Figure It Out. This, of course, is no longer
journalism. It may be entertainment. But it is not responsible
information upon which we can any longer rely.
Silly liberal denials of bias: The suggestion …that the news media do
not tilt to the left, is just not serious thinking. Or, if it's
coming from those who would consider themselves serious thinkers, it's
just not intellectually honest.
Liberals in denial: What is it about many liberals that blinds them
to their true nature? What makes them think that they are unbiased,
objective, open-minded, tolerant and free of "hate"? Why are they so
often in denial — even about their own liberalism?
Media suffer from acute denial syndrome. The derision the big media
holds for all things conservative, especially when that conservatism
has a religious component, is beyond debate.
No media bias? Denials of media bias seem to have become more
frequent or more vehement lately. Some in the media try to dismiss
the accusation as old stuff. But the only real question is whether it
is true, because the truth doesn't wear out with the passage of time.
In denial about radio and TV. Liberals are especially uncomfortable
with people who worship God and not the state. Most broadcast
programming and reporting in big newspapers reflect these biases.
Media Bias Matches UNESCO Intolerance: Popularizing the anti-
Christian principles of the UN Declaration on Tolerance.
Media Bias on Media Bias: One of the incredible feats of media
journalists is denying that there is media bias by equating it with
conspiracy theories. When people share the same bias, they don't need
a conspiracy. The harm comes from the fact that most of the public
gets to see only that part of reality which has been filtered through
the same preconceptions shared by 90 percent of those in the media.
Will a new left-wing TV network rescue the despondent Dems? Only the
looniest leftist could nourish the notion that today's broadcast or
cable-TV networks shortchange or suppress liberal views.
Media Bias Basics: This study shows the political composition of the
media — voting patterns, political affiliations and beliefs — as
expressed to researchers by the reporters themselves. This is
followed by a review of public opinion on liberal media bias, and what
members of the media have said about liberal media bias, and a guide
to how to identify liberal media bias.
Quoting from "Media Bias Basics":
Seventy million Americans rely on broadcast television for their
news. They form opinions based on what they hear and see and to a
lesser extent, read. Since citizens cannot cast informed votes or
make knowledgeable decisions on matters of public policy if the
information on which they depend is distorted, it is vital to American
democracy that television news and other media be fair and unbiased.
Media bias: can they still deny it? Why does it matter, the way the
media frames issues and uses certain terms or expressions? Ronald
Reagan, for example, called his anti-ballistic-missile defense shield
the Strategic Defense Initiative, or SDI. But many in the media use
the term "Star Wars," an expression that Reagan loathed.
Media Donations to People for the American Way: Perhaps it's past
time that we stopped calling these entities "news" organizations and
called them what they really are: liberal propaganda machines.
Profiles In Bias: from the Media Research Center. Clever Is the Word
for a Biased Media: The professional news readers are very smooth,
very clever — so clever, in fact, that they can slant stories to their
liberal bias often without a ripple of suspicion.
Ethics and Morality Training for the Media? Although we don't yet
know what the facts are, the mainstream media has seized this story
and is using it, to the great glee of the far left in this country, to
indict the entire U.S. war effort in Iraq. While our combat troops
undergo this ethics training (which is already a standard part of
their training), it might be a good idea if the mainstream media put
its journalists and executives through "ethics training" to highlight
the importance of adhering to legal, moral and ethical standards in
their reporting, writing and broadcasting.
Small-Time Crooks: The pattern is clear. The current scandal frenzy
is not a campaign against fraud — it's a campaign against business and
capitalism. The people leading the hysteria about "corporate crime"
are eager to expose and condemn fraud by a private businessman — but
they ignore or excuse it when the lies are told by federal employees.
Media Fraud: Media bias is no longer news. Poll after poll has shown
that the vast majority of journalists vote for Democrats, even though
the country as a whole is pretty evenly split between the two major
parties. By itself, there is nothing wrong with this. It becomes a
problem when media bias becomes media fraud. Media bias in editorials
and columns is one thing. Media fraud in reporting "facts" in news
stories is something else.
Out-FOXing the Media: Fox News is on the side of the United States;
it is the network for the Red states.
Editor's Note: When columnists refer to the Red states and the Blue
states, they are making reference to this map which shows the county-
by-county results of the 2000 presidential election.
All the News That Fits: How the media color their coverage.
Serving Al Gore. "We now have incontrovertible front-page evidence.
The New York Times is eager to run stories that are harmful to
conservatives and they sit on stories that are harmful to Democrats."
New York Times on the Defensive: Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr.
comments on the newspaper's pro-homosexual bias.
The "myth" of media bias: "Journalists have to admit that their bias
leads to slanted reporting. ... It is also time for people to stop
demanding the mythical unbiased reporting that has never existed. An
objective reporter is not one that takes no stand in covering a story,
but one who in search of the truth reports what the truth really is."
Editorial: Slouching Toward Censorship
Media Reality Check: A weekly report on major news stories distorted
or ignored by the mainstream media.
Newsweek: Bush Is 'Dim and Perverse', in a remarkable departure from
any pretense to objectivity.
GOP's Big Battle: Media Bias. Bill Clinton "fulfills a campaign
promise," but when President Bush does likewise, the mainstream media
give a stunningly different spin.
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News media critics
Dallas Morning News Watch: Here is the place to get an objective
media bias analysis of the news coverage in the Dallas Morning News,
and other media as well. Comment is encouraged from Dallas Morning
News journalists and editors, as well as readers regarding our
critique of news bias.
Web Critics Take Aim at Old-Style Publishers: A small but growing
contingent of amateur and semi-professional media critics are taking
aim at newspapers and periodicals, picking up where those papers'
ombudsmen (if they have them) leave off. One of the first to appear
was SmarterTimes.com, a site that painstakingly points out flaws in
The New York Times. Since then, similar sights have cropped up that
skewer the Los Angeles Times (LAExaminer.com) and the San Francisco
Chronicle (Chronwatch.com).
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Some liberals insist the MSM is conservative and some conservatives
insist that it is liberal. Both sides offer "proof" and insist that
they are right. But since their man lost, the conservatives are much
more vocal about it. Any excuse rather than admit that the real
problem is that a lot of people were sick of the Republicans. Or that
McCain ran a lousy campaign - picking Palin was a huge risk that
backfired and may have cost him the election. But no, let's blame the
press. Whatever. After 8 years of Bush, it's understandable why people
didn't want another Republican. To call all those people sheep is
little more than sore losers talking, no matter how they spin it.
Dano
Those that think the MSM is liberal, have short memories. Did they all miss
the Clinton years? Whoever is in power will get the most scrutiny...that's
just natural. Watch how they cover Obama, He's already getting plenty of
grief...and he hasn't taken over yet. BTW...he looks less "liberal" every
day to this liberal. I'm already starting to wonder about him.
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you forgot #8: plagiarism.
PETER SHORTS
when the messenger is faggy, you know that you're not going to get an
honest discussion anyway, so personal insults in response are the way
to go.
Tellwitcha
news:6oob9qF...@mid.individual.net...
Gesundheit! ;)
MJ
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I guess thats easier than answering the tough questions.
Wayback1918
...such strong 'proof'
bmo...@nyx.net
It's actually true, as opposed to these lame attempts to blame Obama's
election on the MSM rather that just admit that - duh- that's who
people liked better.
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Didn't say that was the reason Obama won...... I said the media is
overwhelmingly slanted to the left.
I gave a lot of annecdotal evidence and there are tons of studies to
back that. The link below will get you to a lot of them
http://www.mediaresearch.org/biasbasics/biasbasics1.asp
You of course offered...what was it...oh yea "- duh -" to counter my
argument.
Did you learn that in the Yankee group?
bmo...@nyx.net
OK. My original comment was to OFP who *was* saying that.
> I said the media is overwhelmingly slanted to the left.
I wouldn't give you a lot of argument about that. But I also don't
think that they're Marxists either, as some here have asserted.
> I gave a lot of annecdotal evidence and there are tons of studies to
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> You of course offered...what was it...oh yea "- duh -" to counter my
> argument.
I was stating something I thought was obvious. No personal insult
intended.
> Did you learn that in the Yankee group?
A Chinese sneaker saleman taught it to me.
bmo...@nyx.net
Honest discussion is not available with OFP.
PETER SHORTS
you're not paying attention. there's no pointy in answering faggy,
because he's not interested in honest discussion. time and effort are
both wasted if he is taken seriously.
O'Neil's Faggy Prostate - This is a BASEBALL group, thank you!
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Incorrect.
You just don't like me handing your ass to you with CITES and FACTS.
O'Neil's Faggy Prostate - This is a BASEBALL group, thank you!
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Untrue.
But you're among the ranks of the Pw0n3d, so I can see why you would
say that.
PW0N3D!!!
:D
bmo...@nyx.net
Look, it's OK that you're retarded. Dishonest and retarded. We know.
Dano
Please stop insulting the retarded by lumping them in with that despicable
shitbag.