conspiracy proven

[pghin08]

http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts

I knew it. I KNEW you'd come back at me with Media Research Center. You can't come at me with a report from Brent Bozell and his conservative "think-tank", because he's going to tell his donors exactly what they want to hear. And maybe Mr. Bozell would have more credibility as someone who is trying to "scientifically" filter out bias in the media if he didn't say Obama looked like a "ghetto crackhead". This is what I find absolutely hysterical about both parties. They reach out to biased organizations to find evidence to support whatever it is they want to believe. How many times have I posted a "Media Matters" article? ZERO. Because I understand that it's just loaded political garbage that's put out as a means to an end rather than a true search for honest discourse and opinion.

My apologies if I came across as too combative.

[AUTaxMan]

I knew it. I KNEW you'd come back at me with Media Research Center. You can't come at me with a report from Brent Bozell and his conservative "think-tank", because he's going to tell his donors exactly what they want to hear. And maybe Mr. Bozell would have more credibility as someone who is trying to "scientifically" filter out bias in the media if he didn't say Obama looked like a "ghetto crackhead". This is what I find absolutely hysterical about both parties. They reach out to biased organizations to find evidence to support whatever it is they want to believe. How many times have I posted a "Media Matters" article? ZERO. Because I understand that it's just loaded political garbage that's put out as a means to an end rather than a true search for honest discourse and opinion.

My apologies if I came across as too combative.

No I understand. However, are you suggesting that MRC's evidences of media bias are inaccurate?

[pghin08]

No I understand. However, are you suggesting that MRC's evidences of media bias are inaccurate?

I'm not so dumb to think that no bias exists anywhere in the media. I'm sure that some of the things that MRC cites are legit, and same with Media Matters. But my overarching point is that they can't be hailed as legitimate, because each organization has a vested interest in taking down the other side. It's literally in their mantras.

[habsheaven]

99% of the time, I don't understand CNN. It's just noise to me. I read them online a decent bit, because I know I'll be reading about a certain topic, but on TV, it's just chaos.

Not sure what you mean by "don't understand" and "chaos" so i can't really comment on it. I will say that I usually only watch an hour during weeknights as each show usually rehashes the same commentators in their shows. Most of my watching occurs on Sunday mornings. I find "State of the Union", "Fareed Zakaria - GPS" & "Reliable Sources" to all be credible shows with thoughtful conversations.

[andrewhoya]

shrews disappeared from this thread quickly.

[AUTaxMan]

I'm not so dumb to think that no bias exists anywhere in the media. I'm sure that some of the things that MRC cites are legit, and same with Media Matters. But my overarching point is that they can't be hailed as legitimate, because each organization has a vested interest in taking down the other side. It's literally in their mantras.

If you went one-by-one through the each of the network news teams, I would estimate that over 75% of them are more left-leaning than down-the-middle or right-leaning. In fact, I can't name a single member of any of those teams who is right-biased. Certainly the headliners of each of the teams is left-leaning.

[shrewsbury]

andy, i am not gone, just waiting to see if there is a conspiracy or not. taxman can handle it from here

[habsheaven]

Can someone who believes there is a conspiracy please layout exactly what the conspiracy is? IF, most of the media is liberal, HOW is it a conspiracy?

[AUTaxMan]

Can someone who believes there is a conspiracy please layout exactly what the conspiracy is? IF, most of the media is liberal, HOW is it a conspiracy?

I don't believe there is a conspiracy.

[shrewsbury]

so the media, who is supposed to be unbiased (which in journalism 101) can be liberal or conservative? i can see this being there personal choice, but not for media purposes.