Posted on 11/03/2008 11:17:27 AM PST by Lorianne
After the presidential election is over and the dust, animosity, glee and shock settle into something manageable, the nation will need to tackle the subject of “media bias” in a sincere and honest manner.
As an “independent conservative,” I’m expected to see liberal media bias lurking everywhere, but it’s not just me — and it’s not just conservatives. I know liberals, including newspaper editors, who think the “news” pendulum had swung dangerously far to the left.
Beyond recent studies by the Pew Research Center and the Project for Excellence in Journalism, other research shows that the media has tilted to the left; indeed journalists themselves have openly admitted as much.
Under the recent headline “Why McCain Is Getting Hosed in the Press,” Politico editors John F. Harris and Jim Vandehei opined:
OK, let’s just get this over with: Yes, in the closing weeks of this election, John McCain and Sarah Palin are getting hosed in the press, and at Politico. And, yes, based on a combined 35 years in the news business we’d take an educated guess — nothing so scientific as a Pew study — that Obama will win the votes of probably 80 percent or more of journalists covering the 2008 election. Most political journalists we know are centrists — instinctually skeptical of ideological zealotry — but with at least a mild liberal tilt to their thinking, particularly on social issues. So what?
“So what?” Those two cavalier words alone speak to the larger problem. Who cares if “80 percent or more of journalists covering the 2008 election” will vote for Barack Obama? Journalists, their editors, management, the candidates and the American people should care.
(Excerpt) Read more at campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com ...
MSM credibility? They have NONE!
Add to the list of oxymorons.
Tackle the issue of media bias? There’s nothing to tackle...the horse is dead and I’m not interested in beating it. I hope the MSM outlets all go belly-up.
Irretrievably broken. Never again will the right believe the MSM. Even significant segments of the left distrust them.
A pox on their houses. I hope they all FAIL.
Conservative blogs should pool some money to create a mini-AP: paid reporters who do credible, non-biased reporting. They’d increase their readership and advertising dollars. Commentary is great, but we need actual reporting too.
I now simply refer to MSM hacks as press whores. Works for my friends, too. One wanted to know how they can report anything while they are giving Obama a Lewinsky.
“Most political journalists we know are centrists”
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You ever notice how conservatives claim to be conservative but liberals claim to be moderates?
LEXICON OF OXYMORONS:
Military Intelligence.
Jumbo Shrimp.
Media Credibility.
There's another name for this phenomena, one these same reporters and editors use all the time to describe those who don't look like them, on the tip of my tongue... "racist", was it?...
There's another name for this phenomena, one these same reporters and editors use all the time to describe those who don't look like them, on the tip of my tongue... "racist", was it?...
My thoughts exactly!! oxymoron
My son is in “military intelligence”, I guarantee you these young people, especially those at the DLI learning a new language in a rather intense short period of time, are pretty darn smart.
Cindie
MSM just feeling their oats as ‘king makers’.
They will join the ‘ash heap of history’ along with their ‘progressive’ buddies. The sooner they fail, the sooner we get back on track!
Smaller government!
Crush Crony Capitalism!
More individual liberty and economic freedom!
The legitimacy of an election depends on an informed electorate. Under this rubric, the corporate media jumped it in the 70’s. If they don’t care, then why should I? To hell with them.
I’ve thought about the media, and the damage they’ve done to our nation. I’m saddened by their abuse of the right of a free press. But, there is one thing that can force them to do their job, or go out of business - MONEY. Folks, we still have the power. Our ability to purchase may be the only power we still have left in thisw country. So, why don’t we take on the MSM and hit them where it hurts. We keep seeing how they have had to cut back on staff, how their companies are teetering on the brink of extinction, how the Hollywood movies are being watched by less and less folks. Why can’t we, in an organized way, just stop buying any products that they advertise? We could keep a running list on FR, and then daily e-mail out that list to all our friends, so that they would know which products and companies to boycott. I know some of you will laugh at this notion, but what else can we do? We could start with the NYT, LAT, and then turn our attention to NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, etc. What do your think?
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