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To: tejek who wrote (482957)	5/23/2009 2:34:27 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574265

Ted, > We agree that businesses like GE that own the media are conservative. You don't think they have an impact on the content of the media they own? No. Ask Keith Olbermann whether he tones down his liberalism because his boss, the CEO of GM, is conservative. > Interesting. The media doesn't agree with your positions so they are liberal. I don't agree with that position and so I am immature. Whatever. It's been shown many, many times that the mainstream media is much more liberal than America as a whole. Once again, we've been over this before. It's not my fault if you're too hard-headed. Tenchusatsu

To: tejek who wrote (482957)	5/24/2009 9:40:50 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574265

Neither "Business" nor "Big Business", nor "Big media business", equals or implies "conservative. Many big businesses are anything but, in terms of the politics they support, the politicians they fund, or esp. the groups they donate money to. Businesses aim for their media holdings is primarily to make money. If it makes money for them they usually don't care much about the politics. They might care a bit about direct criticism of the company, and so there might be some bias working against reporting of negative things about the owner (but there is a lot of push back against that as well), but businesses don't generally have a major conservative bias, and public corporations don't generally exert a large degree of pressure on the politics of reporting. That's determined by reporters, editors, producers etc., to a much greater degree than the corporate owner in most cases.