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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JBTFD who wrote (692651)	7/19/2005 3:03:21 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

May I sincerely thank you for the thoughtful post? "I think media bias caters to its audience." Less so than to its editors. In newspapers the owners determine the political bias of the paper. I will agree they cannot be blatant about the difference between the editor's bias and the average reader's bias. "I don't agree with the concept that media is all liberally biased." We can agree on some of that. I do not agree that print media is biased right. When you compare readership (or population) the liberal newspapers appear to dominate. The major newspapers are biased far left: NYT, Boston Globe, LA Times, Chi Trib; Miami Herald; sfgate; ad infinitum. There are examples of conservative newspapers such as the Wash Times, NY Post, Boston Herald, but most conservative papers serve much smaller markets, and in the large markets are minor influences. Magazines are predominantly liberal: Newsweek, US News & WR; Times; Vanity Fair; etc. Compared to the much smaller circulation of the Weekly Standard, and whatever other conservative magazines there are. (I am much more likely to read a liberal magazine than any conservative one; simply because of access.) Given that the liberal media controls the traditional media outlets, conservatives found new niches, and the previous lack of service to conservatives caused the importance of those mediums to expand exponentially. The internet is dominated by liberal sites, there are conservative sites, but only a small fraction compared to the liberal ones. Only in talk radio do conservatives dominate. "Talk radio is very heavily slanted with right wing bias. There is a heavy representation of conservative bias in print media, which is obvious if someone looks at townhall.com or other conservative sites. People that harp on and on about the liberal bias of the media ignore that point." People that deny the domination of liberal media ignore all of the above points. "this country is about as divided as it has ever been. And both sides have strong opinions." IMO the surge in confrontation has largely been spurred by the ABB lefties (perhaps spearheaded by the Clintons). Clinton stuck his head in a noose. The left has been trying to slip a noose on Bush for 6 years. Perhaps there was too much vindictiveness against Clinton for what they ere able to catch him in, but he got away with dozens of scandals. The bluster against President Bush started before he took office, and has not let up yet.