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

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (693048)	7/20/2005 5:44:04 PM
From: JBTFD	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

"We agree that the "news" is failing miserably." Yep "The story choice of the big five liberal TV media seems to be slanted to hurt Republicans." I can understand how it may feel this way to republicans. My point is that even while attacking republicans, the media does a horrible job of actually covering stories that are important to liberals or populists. There their sin is usually one of "omission" "wasn't the Presidential vote more like 51% to 43%?" It was 51.07% to 48.59%, A difference of 2.48% The numbers are from here: cnn.com I did my own math, since they rounded to the full percent, and incorrectly rounded down for Kerry at 48.59%. "No person with an ounce of skepticism believes any study says more than it does. In retrospect, I admit to reading more into the voting preference studies than they actually say." I wish this were true. If it were then there wouldn't be people on this thread sounding off about the huge liberal bias of the media. I agree that in the major cities the media is slanted toward the left. That's because their audience is also slanted toward the left. And remember my point that the media is also failing the left in that it fails to cover many issues that are important to progressives. So they are failing both sides. Republicans are not the only victims. Your labeling idea is at least maybe a little more honest representation of how things are covered. I wonder if lexusnexus covers for example the local papers in lawrence, Kansas?