Posted on 06/11/2009 4:25:27 PM PDT by pissant
In addition to disparaging Brian Williams for offering a "candygram" to Barack Obama in prime time, PBS omnipresence Bill Moyers organized another one-sided left-wing discussion on the alleged conservative bias of the news media last Friday, picking up on Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne’s complaint that the media are giving too much time and weight to Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich on the Sotomayor nomination. Former NPR correspondent Brooke Gladstone, who now hosts the weekly show On The Media for WNYC radio (distributed nationally by NPR), denounced the "canard" of liberal media bias and how it causes "overbalance":
What I see is that there's a desperate need on the part of media all the time, and increasingly year after year, to respond to what they think are the concerns of the news consumer. And so, there's a tendency to bend over backwards to prove they aren't liberal. This is a canard that began with the Nixon administration, probably before, but really took off steam then. And they're continually in an acrobatic position, trying to overbalance, show what they think are both sides, a side that isn't being expressed by a mainstream media that is perceived to be liberal, or they believe it's perceived to be liberal.
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“What I see is that there’s a desperate need on the part of media all the time, and increasingly year after year, to respond to what they think are the concerns of the news consumer”
Which explains why more and more people are consuming major newspapers and network newscasts all the time.
Oh, wait, no they aren’t. Nice try.
lol
“This is a canard that began with the Nixon administration”
They were way off base in that case. The media was spot-on. No president has ever been more corrupt than Nixon.
Also, the sky is green and flowers smell like vomit.
“On the Media” has yet to report on Dingy Harry trying to use the power of Harry’s office and the ‘rats in the Senate to hush Rush. “On the Media” is as biased as it comes from NPR.
Did you forget Johnson II?
I think he was being sarcastic.
The "Also, the sky is green and flowers smell like vomit" comment tipped me off (I should be a detective)...
Fixed it.
No president was more corrupt than nixon. What koolaid are drinking? I seem to recall a president who was impeached for perjury or maybe you forgot. I doubt you were around in the early seventies or did you hear this from the liberal professors in your school.
Good point.
A little something to cheer you up!
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/279169-PBS_Makes_More_Cuts.php
PBS Makes More Cuts
Staff cutbacks, salary reductions in effort to close $3.4 million budget deficit
I wish these liberals would give examples of the shows they consider conservative and another with the ones they think are liberal. I know this won’t happen because the facts don’t fit with their rhetoric. Lying and taking things out of context are standard operating procedure for liberals.
“No president was more corrupt than nixon. What koolaid are drinking? I seem to recall a president who was impeached for perjury or maybe you forgot. I doubt you were around in the early seventies or did you hear this from the liberal professors in your school.”
As another poster pointed out, my saying “Also, the sky is green and flowers smell like vomit,” was supposed to be a tip-off that I was being sarcastic.
Bias by omission too.
“No president has ever been more corrupt than Nixon.”
I think the impeached, disbarred rapist in cheif had Nixon beat.
By todays standards, what Nixon did was nothing more than filler for the Saturday paper.
I find it both amusing and outrageous that radical libs refuse to categorize themselves by what they actually are. So according to Gladstone Obama is a “moderate.” Sometimes a person just has to laugh at the sheer gall of these people. Come on, admit it (Moyers and Gladstone), Obama is a progressive leftist just like yourselves. For once in your pathetic lives have the decency to tell the American public what you are and what you stand for.
Exactly.
Sorry. You hit a nerve.
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