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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (1182)	3/22/2003 1:18:03 PM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

That the bias of FOX, CNBC, NBC etc is liberal is a fallacy promoted by conservatives.

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (1182)	3/22/2003 1:26:38 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

>>>there is a liberal bias in the media what does that say?<<< Agustus, there is no "liberal bias" in the media. Not a single major media source is owned by a minority, for example. When you visit awards ceremonies in journalism, as I have, what you find is an audience comprised soley of well-to-do white people. The door that opened the charge of liberal bias, in my view, stems from the reporting of the Vietnam War where the reporting eventually began to dovetail the thinking of the people instead of the Administration. If you really think about it, Carter got hit pretty hard by the media, as did both Reagan and Bush. Clinton pretty much benefited from a good economy and a nation at peace, but did get hit hard from the effects of Whitewater. So let's add up what exists today. Where there is the Washington Post, there is the Washington Times; where there is the New York Times there is the New York Post (among others); where there is the Boston Globe, and so on around the country. Rupert Murdoch owns over 160 print media business around the country. And his holdings in AM radio are extensive. So also extensive the AM radio holdings of Christian rightwing media. Meanwhile, FoxNews clearly is a cheerleading force for the Republicans. The other major networks are owned by large corporations and as much as any trickle-down theory ever existed, here there certainly exists a trickle-up theory as promotions and advancements of media people tend to report that which wil bring them up the ladder, not down the ladder. The Republicans made it a strategy, and a very effective one at that, to accuse the media of being liberally biased. You'll note this accusation became strongest when FoxNews showed up. FoxNews used spiffy graphics and sported more than a few short-skirted blonde announcers and reporters and appealed at the demographics which are shown to like this sort of thing. So, against a backdrop of a liberal media bias charge, the way it works is like this. A slant news story originates from an obscure place. The conservative talking heads on Fox then pick it up and start stalking about it as if it were a major news story, treating it almost as if it is its won exclusive. Meanwhile, the other networks, now sensitive to the liberal bias charge, also end up picking up the story that probably never should have existed in the first place. This is the way the media is working today. Much has been written about this subject. Perhaps you should do a comparative between what a journal like the National Review says on the suject and compare that to what a journal such as The Nation says on the subject. After reading both sides of this argument perhaps then you'll be in a better position to make a judgment. Myself? Having attended media events before, and noting the nature of the audience in attendance, I have personally reaffirmed there is no liberal bias. I assure you that a media that is exlusively comprised of well-to-do white people is not a liberally-biased media.