Since the comments section of the Sanchez post has been threading the way of the "liberal" media, I thought I would share this picture with all of you taken last October of 2006. Here we see President Bush meeting his "troops" or more specifically: Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Michael Medved, Mike Gallagher, and Neil Boortz.Now I tried to find a photo of Bill Clinton talking with his "troops," which is every single person in mainstream media if you believe conservatives, but I couldn't find one. I offer this photo, as well as the highly popular broadcasts of each one of these individuals, as evidence that the media is, in fact, not liberal. Talk to anyone who lives in a rural area in our country and they only hear right wing talk show hosts. The 3-5 conglomerates that own these stations will not put on any liberal hosts. How's that for fair and balanced?
So when General Sanchez says things like the press is "unquestionably engaged in political propaganda that is uncontrolled" he would be 100 percent correct!
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Pointing out that conservative talk radio hosts, who tell their audiences they are conservative every time they do a show, are conservative doesn't prove to anybody that many major network and many individual newspaper reporters and editorial boards for many major newspapers aren't liberal.
But Crab, there is an agenda in the media and it is most decidedly not liberal. Just becaues they are ripping on Bush doesn't mean they are liberal. How long did the Monica Lewinsky thing get covered?
Forever.....
The media makes mistakes all the time because they are basically a bunch of incompetent children. That has nothing to do with their political slant.
and going back to the thread you are talking about, you still won't say who was focusing on Abu Ghrab so much and who convicted the Haditha Marines (i.e. you among others) before all the facts were known.
It isn't about who rips into Bush and who doesn't. Michael Savage rips into Bush more than anyone these days and he isn't liberal. There is no doubt in my mind that conservative media types get marching orders. You're playing us for fools if you are trying to tell us that liberals don't do the same just because you don't see a picture of it happening. They do do it...that's how things work. You of all people, who obsesses over politics to an unhealthy degree, know that to be true.
Yes, conservative media exists and they let you know that they are conservative. Look at shows like the Capital Gang on CNN. I'm not sure who is on it anymore but it's quite obvious that Novak and O'Bierne are conservative. It just sesms like you are denying that Mark Shields is liberal. He is liberal, it's obvious. EJ Dionne IS liberal. Eleanor Clift IS liberal. I could post 50 more names but you get the point, no need to deny it anymore.
Quit playing stupid. You know why Lewinsky was covered so much...you're the one who told me about things like this...RATINGS. It was you who told me about CNN stopping coverage of Anna Nicole and in the aftermath, they proceeded to get killed in the ratings by MSNBC and Fox. So just because they covered Lewinsky so much does not mean that individual writers and reporters are free from bias.
EVERY major newspaper across the country endorsed Kerry for President in 04. The star trib hasn't endorsed a republican for preident in nearly 30 years. I'm not saying they can't endorse who they want to endorse and I'm not saying they can't have their own opinions but you have a very quick pre-emptive defense of the media every time this charge comes up. If there was no validity to the charge you wouldn't feel the need to defend them so much.
Because I think that Abu Ghrab should be focused on because we are supposed to be better than them. Don't you agree?
Haditha-given your obvious bias towars the media, I think you might want to look into this a little more. The NCIS investigation has bungled this case massively which is what I think has lead to the recent string of immunities. No known insurgents were killed in this attack. Remember, the Time magazine article prompted the investigation and it was the Pentagon, not the media, that found the initial evidence of wrongdoing.
"EVERY major newspaper across the country endorsed Kerry for President in 04"
Incorrect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_endorsements_in_the_United_States_presidential_election,_2004
Yeah, the Chicago Tribune, the Dallas Morning News, the New York Sun, Daily News and the Post, and the others on the list...wow, I actually didn't know that many endorsed Bush. Cool...
Does "I think that Abu Ghrab should be focused on" have something to do with "support for the troops"? That's a funny way of supporting the troops.
How many US military successes have you written columns about on this blog since our venture into the Middle East? You do seem to write about things like Pat Tillman, Haditha, Abu Ghrab (ie our fuck ups) all the time there MarkadePalma.
You've now stated your intentions for focusing on Abu Ghrab so much. I see General Sanchez pointed out the results of people focusing so much on Abu Ghrab. Remember, there are intentions and there are results, 2 mutually exclusive concepts.
I could care less about being "better" then them. I say we fight just as dirty as they do...worked for the Ethiopians recently.
Wikipedia is liberal!!! I don't believe anything from Wikipedia!!
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Take a poll of any news organization, INCLUDING Fox News, and you will find that a majority of those in the journalism "profession" are democrat/liberal. FACT. That you don't think this colors their worldview and hence their "reporting" makes me chuckle. Hannity and Ingraham are not reporters, pretending to be objective. They are right wing commentators and describe themselves as such.
Well, show me the poll.
The fact is, Kevin, the media are bought off stoolies for the corporations that run this country and own the news organizations. These corporations own most of the government as well. I'm willing to bet that these corporations are largely conservative.
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040524.asp
http://books.google.com/books?id=4MVacytwypwC&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&dq=poll+of+journalist+ideology&source=web&ots=S-UwMa4iPL&sig=Nf37-70iEqMW9yv7qbfuxkzpCLs#PPA27,M1
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Alright, the first link...please. I am not a child.
The second link shows 50 liberal and the other 50 either moderate or conservative so are all moderates now classified as liberal as well?
You also need to factor in who is paying attention to what media. Fox is the most watched news channel, Rush Limbaugh the most popular radio host-this where people are getting their news, not simply because more people like them but because they are available to a wider audience through the oligarchy that tyrants like Ruppert Murdoch have created.
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