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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (5379)	2/26/2001 5:22:40 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 59480

Re: "Do you think there is much to Sowell's claim that the sides of the debate have such basically different core beliefs, constrained vs. unconstrained, that we hit the wall on solutions." Yes. There is much truth in that statement. The conflict today is as much cultural as political. I will disagree with you on one point, that being this alleged liberal-big media connection, or, as you say, "They have large access to the press and use and abuse it regularly." In fact, as I have opined before, the exact opposite is true today. Outside of a few large-city newspapers, such as the N.Y. Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, the vast majority of newspapers in the U.S. today are conservative. AM "hate" talk radio is almost exclusively right-wing these days. Cable TV also leans to the right. At one point perhaps the big three networks of NBC, ABC and CBS might have been properly accused of a liberal bias, but none in their heyday can compare to Fox's right-wing bias today. Americans are increasingly turning away from network television in favor of cable programming, from No. 1 right-wing attack dog Sean Hannity all the way to the room makeover shows that my wife watches on HGTV. Bottom line: Dan Rather doesn't carry nearly the clout that he used to, and there isn't such a thing as the "liberal media" anymore. The term has served as a rallying cry for right-wingers for decades. Fact is, it just doesn't exist.