US media retain their liberal bias

Boston Globe ^ | December 15, 2002 | Jeff Jacoby

[sarcasm]

GROANING SHELF of evidence bears out what many people know intuitively: The American mass media suffer from a left-wing slant. The data come in a variety of forms: classic studies such as ''The Media Elite'' (first published in 1986) and William McGowan's ''Coloring the News'' (2001), insider exposes like CBS veteran Bernard Golberg's recent bestseller ''Bias,'' and a thick sheaf of industry studies and public opinion polls.

[kcvl]

White House Memo Asserts a Scandal Theory

By John F. Harris and Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writers

Friday, January 10 1997; Page A01

The 332-page report documenting an alleged "conspiracy commerce" of scandalous "fringe stories" about President Clinton was compiled by a young White House aide toiling in an obscure corner of the Old Executive Office Building. But there is little doubt it reflected views held strongly in the Oval Office.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/pjones/stories/pj011097.htm

[Ken in Eastman]

Another good reason to buy Goldberg's Bias or Coulter's Slander.

[kcvl]

commissioned by former White House associate counsel Mark Fabiani and written by a young aide named Christopher Lehane

[Ken in Eastman]

The fact that the media would even take Clinton's VRW Conspiracy charges and report them with a straight face is enough to convince most open-minded folks that there MUST be a left-wing bias.

I even have an old book called And That's The Way It Isn't about media bias, especially among the media elites.

[backhoe]

The 332-page report documenting an alleged "conspiracy commerce" of scandalous "fringe stories" about President Clinton was compiled by a young White House aide toiling in an obscure corner of the Old Executive Office Building. But there is little doubt it reflected views held strongly in the Oval Office.

More--

The New Republic: MEDIA REX
... I had read articles about an administration report on the "media food
chain," and asked the White House counsel's office for a copy. ...

Press Briefing Transcript: McCurry on "Media Food Chain" Report
... it? Why would the White House waste its timeputting together this
"media food chain" theory? MCCURRY: It's not a waste of time. ...

	Excerpt:'Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce'
	Topic: White Water Excerpt:'Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce' The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories October 1997 by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The Secret Life of Bill Clinton
	Return of the Clinton enemies list
	Topic: White Water Return of the Clinton enemies list September 22, 1998 Joseph Farah Thanks to the work of London Telegraph investigative reporter Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, the Communication Stream of

[logic101.net]

Dear Mr Rather,

If "reporters" don't know if they are Republican or Deomocrat, why do 95% of them vote for Democrats? Just blind chance?

MARK A SITY
http://www.logic101.net/

[fporretto]

The Left's political figures need a whipping boy to explain the slide in their fortunes. The media hasn't changed its spots -- nor its urgent need to conceal them as best it can, without surrendering its bastions and their influence.

For further thoughts on the opportunities this presents us, please see:

Freeing The Speech, Part 2

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
Visit The Palace Of Reason:
http://www.palaceofreason.com

[The Raven]

When's the last time you saw a media report on a new government spending program challenge the cost or necessity of it?

[HighWheeler]

"It's one of the great political myths,'' insisted Dan Rather in 1995. ''Most reporters don't know whether they're Republican or Democrat, and vote every which way.... And also, let me say that I don't think that `liberal' or `conservative' means very much any more."

Uh Huh. So explain why ratherbiased.com is such a motherload of liberal bias about you Dan, you pinhead? When Katherine Harris was about to certify the Florida election on that Sunday afternoon in December 2000, CommieDan repeated over and over "Remember, this is HER opinion only", and he never could bring himself to say this ended the Gore team's scam on the election.