Dick Morris: Bias-mongers on rocks as viewers taste straight news

The Hill ^ | August 13, 2003 | Dick Morris

[myheroesareDeadandRegistered]

".....will not acknowledge their problem until after they have hit "rock bottom,"....."

True, but some folks just go on drink their selves to death. I hope CNN won't make it to rehab. :)

[eggman]

Why are people tuning out the establishment media? I can sum it up in one word...Truth.

People have stopped believing all of the hype coming from the network news. When people see time after time what the liberal media is saying doesn't ring true, they stop listening. All of the negative reports coming from them are being revealed to be nothing but sensationalism and outright lying.

They can be as biased as they want. People will only pay attention if they are believable.

[sauropod]

Fox Rules (esp. Kiran Chetry and Laurie Dhue ;-).

[sauropod]

Reminds me of the blind men and the elephant joke...

[sauropod]

Not a good screen name. Now their heads won;t fit on the forum ;-)

[Bluntpoint]

If ex-president Bush was living apart from ex-first lady bush, do you not think that would be a topic of discussion on ABCNBCCBSCNNMSNBC?

Funny how they have not noticed the Clinton situation.

[.cnI redruM]

I was watching straight Fox ever since it became available in my area. Except to substitute.

[Plutarch]

Once you get used to the likes of Fox News, it becomes jarring to turn to the the likes of CNN/MSNBC/ABC/CBS/NBC, because the liberal bias is so apparent.

This isn't just because Fox News is biased conservative. The proof comes with Tim Russert, who is relatively evenhanded, and is no conservative. If all the news sources were as tough with both liberals and conservatives as Tim Russert we would have much less bias to complain about.

[Cobra64]

I've been watching Dick Morris whack the Clintons for the last two years. He hates the Clintons. Because he was Stainman's political adviser, he has a lot of inside knowledge on Stain.

[eggman]

Also funny how they, just like Hillary claims she did, believed (and continue to believe) all of Bill's lies yet call Bush, acting on the best intelligence information available to do his job and defend the country, a liar.

[Cobra64]

GOOD GRIEF!!! And this is DICK MORRIS saying this??!!!

Yes. Morris did a complete 180 a few years ago. He's been whacking the Clintons for years!

[ggekko]

"None of the major media -- not even Fox News -- meets this criteria for me, but at least Fox makes more of an effort and is much more honest about the distinction between hard news and editorializing in the phony guise of hard news, or between facts and opinions or speculation...."

The editorial board of the NY Times and the editorial staff for the three major networks are so mired in the Georgetown cocktail party circuit that thay lack any perspective outside of east coast liberal politics. Or as writer Joan Didion said after Regan's 1984 landslide "I don't know how Regan won, none of my friends voted for him." .

Bernard Goldberg's book "Bias" gives a sense of how culturally isolated most of the editorial personnel in the "elite" media truly are. The idea that taking the daily DNC talking points from the Fax machine and repackaging it as news is biased would not occur to most of these people.

[Uncle Fud]

How many hours of Kobe, Ben & JLo, high school hazing, Scott and Laci can you show per day and still qualify as "serious news".

Fox has long since crossed that particular threshold, for all that I love the coverage provided by Brit Hume and Tony Snow.

[Timesink]

Bernard Goldberg's book "Bias" gives a sense of how culturally isolated most of the editorial personnel in the "elite" media truly are. The idea that taking the daily DNC talking points from the Fax machine and repackaging it as news is biased would not occur to most of these people.

I've worked in two network news divisions. This is absolutely the truth. Most of them really do think they're being fair, and don't have a clue how slanted their work is. (Which is not to claim there are not sizable numbers of them who know their work is slanted and insert such liberal bias 100% intentionally, because there are.)

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Reminds me of the blind men and the elephant joke...

It's more like the blind leading the deaf.

[gaijin]

marking

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...DICK MORRIS has now twice admitted on the air on...

..'The Judicial Watch Report' Radio Show at..

.. http://www.JudicialWatch.org ..

...that the CLINTONS did refuse 3 Offers to extradite our No. 1 Terrorist Enemy OSAMA bin LADEN from the Sudan to the custody of a U.S. Jail & Trial during the 1990's that would have prevented the Attacks on us all on September 11, 2001.

.. http://www.Newsmax.com ..Columnist & 'HILLARY's Schemes' ..Author CARL LIMBACHER has BILL CLINTON on audio tape admitting early last year to refusing one such OSAMA Offer and HILLARY saying in person to him that there were none made or refused.

...Seems like a great CLINTON conflict for the 911 Investigating Commission to look into under oath for both..?

[KarlInOhio]

He's been whacking the Clintons for years!

In the name of all that is holy, buy a thesaurus and choose a different word than "whacking" when dealing with the Sinkmeister. :-)

[Jen]

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[Cobra64]

In the name of all that is holy, buy a thesaurus and choose a different word than "whacking" when dealing with the Sinkmeister.

LOL. Sorry 'bout that. Ya got a good point.