Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SilentZ who wrote (565331)	5/9/2010 7:46:08 PM
From: steve harris	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575760

Thank you Pravda...

To: SilentZ who wrote (565331)	5/9/2010 8:02:15 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575760

More than four decades after the civil rights movement and the second wave of feminism delivered two new paradigms to the nation, my survey of the past 16 months of six Sunday television talk shows found them still to be dominated by men, whites and Republicans, particularly right-wing Republicans, with a geographical bias for the East and Midwest. This was true of the guests, reporters and pundits. This is one of my more serious frustrations. All this talk of the MSM being liberal has given a Rs a get-out-of-jail-free card. Whenever anyone in the MSM critizes the Rs, they blame it on the MSM's liberal bias.......and everyone buys into it. If anything, most of the MSM is center right with the notable exception of MSNBC's evening shows....Maddow and Olbermann. Blitzer is hardly liberal, Cooper is a homo who plays it straight, if Mike or Misha on Morning Joe is liberal, then the grass is purple etc. And the NY Times and the WA Post can't seem to hire enough winger writers for their papers. As for the Sunday talk shows, I don't even bother to watch them.....they are a joke. I mean.....McCain is on nearly every Sunday and he can't remember which lie he's said from one week to the next. If Dick Gregory isn't an R, he should be. They all suck.....including Candy Crowley. Precisely when the idea that the media are overwhelmingly liberal first started getting hammered into Americans' heads is hard to pinpoint. I don't know when it started either but you know it was another myth created by Rs. The Top Eleven? Mitch McConnell, 25 appearances; John McCain (21), John Kyl (18), Lindsey Graham (18), Mike Huckabee (13), Charles Schumer (13), Kent Conrad (12), Dick Durbin (12), Dianne Feinstein (12), Newt Gingrich (12), Orrin Hatch (12). So, seven Republicans accounted for 38% of the total appearances by Republicans; and four Democrats accounted for 20% of total appearances by Democrats. Of course. As Alterman says, the idea the media might – because of who owns them, because of economic pressures, and because of outside political pressure –actually "be more sympathetic to conservative causes than liberal ones is widely considered to be simply beyond the pale." No matter what the evidence shows, the myth lives. At this point, liberals need to stop trying to be fair. You reason with the right to a point and then screw it. Frankly, I want to take over....lock, stock and barrel. As far as I am concerned, we do a better job, in general, of running everything! ;-)