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Gun debate triggered media bias
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Posted on 04/18/2013 5:37:06 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Gun debate triggered media bias By: Dylan Byers April 18, 2013 07:09 PM EDT

If you thought President Obama was outraged after the Senate killed the plan to expand background checks on guns, you should have seen some members of the press.

Even by the standards of today’s partisan media environment, the response has been noteworthy. Television hosts, editorial boards, and even some reporters have aggressively criticized and shamed the 46 Senators who opposed the plan, while some have even taken to actively soliciting the public to contact them directly.

The decision by some members of the media to come down so firmly on one side of a policy debate has only served to reinforce conservatives’ longstanding suspicions that the mainstream media has a deep-seated liberal bias.

“I guess the liberal media get annoyed when Senators listen to their constituents and think for themselves, rather than doing the media’s bidding,” Bill Kristol, the editor-in-chief of the Weekly Standard, told POLITICO.

”It’s clearly biased and unmistakably ideological,” said John Podhoretz, the conservative New York Post columnist. “These outlets can do what they do want, but nobody should kid themselves about what they’re doing.”

(Also on POLITICO: Manchin-Toomey fails, 'shame on you' shouts from gallery)

Conservatives are doubly frustrated because amid all this cheerleading, the media largely turned a deaf ear to one of the right’s central substantive arguments: There is little evidence that the Manchin-Toomey plan could prevent another Aurora or Newtown — a fact many reports glossed over. Indeed, Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein recently stated on the Senate floor that universal background checks, while “very important… would not have been prevented the tragedy in Newtown.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; collusion; dnctalkingpoints; guncontrol; mediabias; obamunism; partisanpress; secondamendment; staterunmedia; yellowjournalism
Why I'm shocked!
1 posted on 04/18/2013 5:37:06 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

The gun debate is used to keep the real issues of the table.

Its the economy stupid Obama.


2 posted on 04/18/2013 5:38:43 PM PDT by NoLibZone (None here can be puzzled by why Jews walked into the cars so quietly- we are walking up the planks.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Awe you don’t need nothin to trigger media bias other than a conservative ideal, bias just comes naturally to the general media.


3 posted on 04/18/2013 5:41:26 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Sub-Driver

There would have been no debate without the media. It was purely media driven and would have been a non-issue without their 24-7 efforts to make it look like a debate. It was 99.999% theater, complete with actors and props. Just like everything this administration does. A recent poll showed that only 4% of America even thought that “gun control” was an important issue to pursue. Sorry, I am too lazy to look up the poll but I’m sure a quick search will find it if you are inclined to check me.


4 posted on 04/18/2013 6:00:38 PM PDT by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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"Gun Debate Triggered Media Bias

Really?? And here I thought the Liberal Media was always biased for decades. Count me doubly shocked!
5 posted on 04/18/2013 6:08:33 PM PDT by hawaiianninja (Palm note to self: It's called a Depression. Pray for the America!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Bill O’Reilly called for federal gun registration on his show and castigated Obama for doing an ineffective job.

But O’Reilly is an idiot.


6 posted on 04/18/2013 6:15:18 PM PDT by School of Rational Thought (Fun for women ages 21 through 35)
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To: Sub-Driver

This is a funny story, coming from Politico as it is.


7 posted on 04/18/2013 6:17:14 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Obama's vision - No Job is a Good Job)
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To: Sub-Driver

When it finally comes down to it, make sure that you save some tar and feathers the MSM whores.


8 posted on 04/18/2013 6:26:46 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (The Team: Progressives, Margret Sanger, Josef Mengele and the Butcher of Philadelphia)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

Heck, the media should be first...and should be NOW!


9 posted on 04/18/2013 6:35:28 PM PDT by IrishPennant (All warfare is based on deception.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Triggered media bias? Hell, they’re always on full-auto!


10 posted on 04/18/2013 6:49:06 PM PDT by 'smith
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To: NoLibZone

Really.

What happened to the President who was laser-focused on job creation?


11 posted on 04/18/2013 6:50:18 PM PDT by FatherFig1o155 (Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason.)
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To: School of Rational Thought

Meaning no disrespect, but so are the people who watch O’Reilly.

If they stopped watching the a-hole he would go away.


12 posted on 04/18/2013 7:10:09 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Sub-Driver

13 posted on 04/18/2013 7:39:41 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee
"90% of the time, I'm lying!"

And the other 10% is when someone says "Mr. President?" and he says "Yes?"

14 posted on 04/18/2013 7:49:55 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Venturer
Meaning no disrespect, but so are the people who watch O’Reilly. If they stopped watching the a-hole he would go away.

Not a watcher. I had fox on in the background and it was his turn.

15 posted on 04/19/2013 7:56:06 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought (Fun for women ages 21 through 35)
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To: Sub-Driver
Even by the standards of today’s partisan media environment, the response has been noteworthy. Television hosts, editorial boards, and even some reporters have aggressively criticized and shamed the 46 Senators who opposed the plan, while some have even taken to actively soliciting the public to contact them directly.

I bet several of them do indeed get contacted directly.

16 posted on 04/19/2013 9:03:56 AM PDT by archy
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