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To: combjelly who wrote (775207)	3/16/2014 6:08:18 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576743

>> The people in the media might be more liberal than the general population. But that doesn't mean that influences what gets into the news. My ultra liberal reporter friend makes the same absurd claim. "Reporters may be somewhat liberal, but the news pages of NYT and LAT are not liberal." Well, bullshit. It isn't a conspiracy, but neither is it an accident. The NYT targets a liberal market and makes its articles stunningly biased toward the left. Other than Fox, no one has covered any of Obama's scandals. Beghazi? Non-event. IRS being used to target conservative organizations? Non-event. Obamacare failures? Big event, but left wing media has made every effort to manipulate it make it look less bad than it is. I'm not trying to defend the Republicans as they're as bad as Democrats in most respects. But no objective person would claim there is no liberal media bias. Look at the panels on the ABC, CBS, NBC Sunday morning news shows. ABC, as its Republican commentator, puts on Matthew Dowd, who is essentially a liberal that once worked for a Republican. NBC is worse; it doesn't even make a pretense about it most of the time. Look at Candy Crowley during the Obama/Romney debate. If that isn't an example of extreme liberal bias I don't know what is. She basically blurted out what she thought -- which was precisely wrong -- but it was her undying support for obama that she couldn't control. Unfortunately, these things are hard to quantify in a meaningful way. And besides, who is going to report on it other than Fox News? You're not going to get Chris Matthews telling his audience, "We're biased as hell and now someone proved it."