^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Sam trying his best to do damage control and neutralize a humiliating situation!!! This is hilarious!! Face it, you got caught red-handed, SamFisher. You've been:
Regardless, the point of my post was missed, CNN is slightly liberal, FOXNEWS is slightly (although probably more so than the now CNN, I only watched it back in the day) conservative. You're going to get a pretty accurate picture of the news regardless.
Not aimed at you, twhy, but the fact that people really believe this scares the hell out of me. Oh, and sometimes people miss with their sarcasm detector. Tune yours and then re-scan my original post. Thank you very much.
If the press were truly "liberal" as many claim it is, they would have asked one hell of alot more questions during the run up to the Iraqi Occupation. The claim of a "Liberal Press" is a sham.
Let me say for the record that I am liberal. The NY Times, the Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, ABC, NBC, CBS, etc. don't come close to being what I would consider liberal. I don't fault them for it, but let's get real. In the spectrum of what is and isn't liberal none of these networks or publications are liberal. Many stories from these news outlets may portray events that are to the left of the political spectrum from those that find themselves upset by these stories. That doesn't mean that they liberal.
It's official, Fox News does make one stupid or stupid people get all their news from Fox News. http://www.dailyemerald.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/05/07/409bbfc0d5b00 . . . Carroll cited a study released last year that showed Americans had three main misconceptions about Iraq: That weapons of mass destruction had been found, a connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq had been demonstrated and that the world approved of U.S intervention in Iraq. He said 80 percent of people who primarily got their news from Fox believed at least one of the misconceptions. He said the figure was more than 57 percentage points higher than people who get their news from public news broadcasting. "How in the world could Fox have left its listeners so deeply in the dark?" Carroll asked. . . .
It's kind of hard these days, since Air America is fizzling away. Besides, why does NPR, where most liberals go for talk radio, need competition anyhow? The media is and always will tilt left. When most of your people from the top down are leftist, no matter how good their intentions, they will tend to frame the news from a leftist perspective.
You can keep repeating this misunderstanding (I don't want to call it a lie given your newfound sense of civility) all you want, but it still doesn't make it true. I am and have been pretty centrist since I have become politically aware. I am exposed heavily to both sides since my mother is a die-hard Republican and my father's favorite pundit is Molly Ivans. The mainstream media has a slight lean to the right with the exception of AM talk radio, which is all the way over to the right. NPR is not NEARLY as liberal as you make them out to be and if you believe they are then you haven't listened recently. The only liberal media out there (with the exception of certain newspapers and websites) is Air America. BTW, if you think AAR is "fizzling away" then you are in for a rude awakening. They are adding stations left and right and have started attracting sponsors, too.
But, Andy, I am journalist, I should know my own kind! Most journalists (with the obvious exception of me) are liberal and I know plenty from both my paper and the South's largest daily, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. That's not a misconception. Journalism as a field attracts liberals just as business attracts conservatives. That's not a slam on journalism except for I think we should have a more broad slate of opinions not just on the op-ed page, but in the newsroom as well. In a perfect world, the media would be perfectly in the middle, but we are talking about human imperfection. Men are not angels. And when I say it is slanted left, I don't mean that there is some kind of conspiracy to destroy the right amongst most of the media. Instead, they just interpret the news through the prism of their worldview, which happens to be liberal.
