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To: Lane3 who wrote (51125)	6/21/2004 6:42:59 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793970

I wish that those who complain about liberal bias would be clearer that it's the social issues. I find most of the media has a very poor understanding of economics. That is why they are suckers for the "Globalization" issue. It is an "anti-capitalistic" mentality, mainly. A general dislike of "big business."

To: Lane3 who wrote (51125)	6/21/2004 1:32:19 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793970

Karen, I agree with LB here. It's not just the social issues, it's all the fiscal issues too. The Media (much of it anywy, certainly NPR and the BBC) display the classic liberal bias of loving jobs and hating employers. How many times have you heard a story framed, "Company X has said that they are going to close a plant and fire y number of people - even though they made a profit last year! Outrageous!"? The notion that companies have to keep making changes in order to stay profitable, and firing people is not primie facie a sign of callous greed, does not occur. And I don't think NPR ever met a government aid program it didn't like. Well perhaps the agricultural subsidies. Most of the media come down liberal in the proper-role-of-government debate. The bias certainly exists in foreign policy too, a strong bias towards the UN and various peace-processing cant-we-all-just-get-along attitudes towads the worlds worst dictators, towards whom outrage is never directed. I heard a long BBC program on the disaster in the Sudan last night. One would have thought by the tone that these poor people were all earthquake victims. Also, as Tom Gross just noted in his critique of Beeb coverage, they tend not to mention the ethnicity of the ethnic cleansers (Arab) and the ethnically cleansed (black). Unlike, say, reporting from Gaza, where the Jewish identity of the settlers is mentioned in every sentence. Come to think of it, I can't think of an area where the bias does not occur. Perhaps on deficits, now that the issue has been muddled between the Democrats and Republicans, and the media don't know which way to lean.