Ex CBS reporter Lara Logan praises Breitbart and Fox News

Lol. You started a thread because someone else agrees with on Breitbart? Sounds like a fellow conservative agreed with you.... shocked.

Conservatives rule talk radio and have moved over to online sites like Breitbart, Drudge, etc.... Conservatives have gotten good at playing the media victim card when their media is pretty successful....

 

She is not wrong.

 

I don't actually see any praise there for Breitbart. She says,"“Unless you seek out Breitbart on your computer, you’re probably not even going to know what the other side is saying." So Breitbart is the source of 'what the other side is saying,' but she doesn't say they do good reporting.

Anyway, doesn't matter. I don't know who she is and her opinion is totally irrelevant to me. Her observation that there is a partisan divide in news sources is accurate. That it is apparently -- from people's talk of 'one side' and 'the other side' -- a binary split that mirrors our political party split is worrisome. I'd much prefer a myriad of biased perspectives in the news instead of 2. That we have only 2 suggests that the press isn't actually free at all.

 

Journalists are left leaning.

News editors are corporate centric.

Beware of the "synergies".

::cough:: neoliberalism ::cough::

As for Breitbart, keep reading that dumpster fire old con publications like heritage or national review trash on...

 

Fox News is the most popular and is Mainstream Media. Sinclair owns so many local news organizations. I don't know any young person that gets the majority of their news from TV, so I'm not sure what that matters.

The issue with Breitbart is that they aren't just conservative, but will flat out run fake stories and unabashed hate. Fox News is extremely biased, and intentionally misleading, but they at least have some level of integrity.

 

She is not correct.

 

Wasn’t she the one who was raped in Egypt during the Arab Spring?

 

Yes, she was sexually assaulted in Egypt. Very sad stuff.

 

What is she saying that is incorrect? The great weight of the media leans to the left. People are receiving overwhelmingly left leaning coverage on most topics because most media outlets are overwhelmingly left leaning. This is true with regards to television, print and internet media outlets. (Maybe not radio, I hear its fairly conservative but I don't listen to talk radio so idk.)

 

Reporting from Egypt and sexual assault

Logan and her CBS crew were arrested and detained for one night by the Egyptian Armyon 3 February 2011, while covering the Egyptian revolution. She said the crew was blindfolded and handcuffed at gunpoint, and their driver beaten. They were advised to leave the country, but were later released.[18][19]

On 15 February 2011, CBS News released a statement that Logan had been beaten and sexually assaulted on 11 February, while covering the celebrations in Tahrir Squarefollowing Hosni Mubarak's resignation.[20] CBS 60 Minutes broadcast an interview with her about it on 1 May 2011; she said she was speaking out because of the prevalence of mass sexual assault in Egypt, and to break the silence about the sexual violence women reporters are reluctant to report in case it prevents them from doing their jobs.[21][22][23]

She said the incident involved 200 to 300 men and lasted around 25 minutes. She had been reporting the celebrations for an hour without incident when her camera battery failed. One of the Egyptian CBS crew suggested they leave, telling her later he heard the crowd make inappropriate sexual comments about her. She felt hands touching her, and can be heard shouting "stop", just as the camera died. One of the crowd shouted that she was an Israeli, a Jew, a claim that CBS said, though false, was a "match to gasoline". She went on to say that they tore off her clothes and, in her words, raped her with their hands, while taking photographs with their cellphones. They began pulling her body in different directions, pulling her hair so hard she said it seemed they were trying to tear off chunks of her scalp. Believing she was dying, she was dragged along the square to where the crowd was stopped by a fence, alongside which a group of women were camping. One woman wearing a chador put her arms around Logan, and the others closed ranks around her, while some men who were with the women threw water at the crowd. A group of soldiers appeared, beat back the crowd with batons, and one of them threw Logan over his shoulder. She was flown back to the U.S. the next day, where she spent four days in the hospital.[21][22] She was contacted by President Obama when she arrived home.[24] CBS said it remained unclear who the attackers were, and unlikely that any will be prosecuted.[21][22]

 

If I was searching for an all encompassing adjective to describe the MSM, it would be ... incompetent.

FWIW many on the right or far right see everything to their left as liberal/leftist/socialist while they might be better described as moderate/left-of-center/right-of-center. Having said that, MSM politically are likely on the left but their reporting is moderate to slightly left of center. Sorting this politically leaning is non-trivial due to the inherent incompetence.

 

I'm so happy for you that you found someone that agrees with you.

 

I don't watch any MSM on television unless some sort of big news event is occurring which wouldn't really be influenced too much by political bias. I do watch Vice News, an extremely left wing program, on HBO because I really enjoy investigative journalism but, I like to think, I'm clever enough to see through the heavy partisanship of their coverage/framing.

I don't watch MSM for a couple of reasons.. 1. I think the 24 hour news cycle is poisonous and harmful to the country 2. All of the channels are shills for their respective parties.

I don't agree with your assertion that MSM is "slightly left of center" I think outlets like, CNN as an example, are pretty firmly in the Democratic camp and their coverage of events/framing of events is illustrative of that. You will see CNN pretty much on on every TV in every airport in the United States and is held as kind of "generic television news coverage" but it's not, it's a firmly left wing news outlet. It's super obvious by how most every personality on CNN frames discussions and its super obvious which side of a discussion every CNN personality is going with.

I use to think of CNN as a middle of the road news outleft that kind of balanced the more extreme forces of Fox and MSNBC but that changed a while ago or maybe I just realized it as I got older.

 

Even twitter is biased against extreme right wingers...

 

My mistake, it wasn't because he was a conservative...

 

Left and right are pretty relative terms. And given it's a free market, if whatever bias was sufficiently objectionable, you'd think people would reward other vendors with a more acceptable lens with their eyeballs. Some do, which is why there are boutique outfits like Breitbart or Mother Jones or whatever. But the mainstream news is called that because that is what it is -- mainstream. That's what people mostly choose to watch. Maybe some are a bit left or a bit right, but if they were too far off the mark they wouldn't be in the mass market business at all.

 

Oh my... I guess jacob wohl really wasn't a good example...

 

So you don't watch any "MSM" outlets, but you're able to compile paragraph upon paragraph analyzing their bias and where along the left wing spectrum they fall? Interesting.