Texan_Til_I_Die Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 Re: Liberal Bias in the media! Well, to address the original point of this thread - I don't think that there is an overwhelming conservative bias in the media. SOME outlets are definitely conservative, like the talk shows, and some are definitely liberal, like the New York Times (by their own admission ). What I have a problem with are the outlets that claim to be unbiased, but present the news with a liberal slant. Three out of the four big networks qualify for that "distinction." And - this is important so pay attention - when you look at the total audience of the media, I would think that far more people are being exposed to the "liberal" parts of the media than are being exposed to the "conservative" parts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swamphunter Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 Re: Liberal Bias in the media! BBS?? BBS....?? Your sources?? silence..... other than the sounds of chirping crickets in the air. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnf Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 Re: Liberal Bias in the media! [ QUOTE ] it is not a web site it is a book by team Franken!!!! called lyers! O and by the way FISHERGUY I DId do my reseach so dont doubt the facts!!!!!!!!!!!!! [/ QUOTE ] It's easy to see that the media has a hard left bias. All you have to do is read the paper, watch tv, listen to the radio or surf the net. I agree 100% with that. However, if your going to spout of numbers, you shouldn't feel offended that someone wants you to back them up. That's why when I give reference to something biblical that I usually give a book, chapter and verse. You will not gain the respect of those who disagree with you by throwing out stuff without backing it up. There are a lot of guys on here that I don't agree with spiritually or politically, but I do have a lot of respect for them, and try to point out times when we do agree. You get respect by giving it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LifeNRA Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 Re: Liberal Bias in the media! [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] First off, I mentioned this last year [/ QUOTE ] Right here is the problem!!! SOME PEOPLE JUST CANT LET GO!!! [/ QUOTE ] What did you do, read the first sentence and stop. You are good at that though. [/ QUOTE ] No slug, I read every post! Enough already! You dems just cant let it go! Thats my point! I just used your first sentence as an example of what BBS is doing. You already mentioned this last year and he keeps the fire rolling! But then you do the same thing at times too! Listen here, I read every post so dont tell me what I am good at! You dems just keep crying about who got into the White House. It does get sickening after awhile! Waaaaaaaaaaaaa! He did this and waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! He did that! Lets move on! Its like beating a dead horse! I too am waiting for his sources! Come on slug help him out! LOL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
preacherman Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 Re: Liberal Bias in the media! [ QUOTE ] I haven't done any research. I just observed for the last 52 years [/ QUOTE ] Man, Buckee, you are old! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebeilgard Posted June 29, 2005 Report Share Posted June 29, 2005 Re: Liberal Bias in the media! anyone who does not believe that there is a severe liberal bias in our news media, simply hasen't paid attention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebeilgard Posted July 1, 2005 Report Share Posted July 1, 2005 Re: Liberal Bias in the media! think we can shorten bbs to just bs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LifeNRA Posted July 2, 2005 Report Share Posted July 2, 2005 Re: Liberal Bias in the media! Dont you have the book anymore? You had six days since you last posted. Stop messing around and give us the name of the book and the author! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckee Posted July 3, 2005 Report Share Posted July 3, 2005 Re: Liberal Bias in the media! The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LifeNRA Posted July 3, 2005 Report Share Posted July 3, 2005 Re: Liberal Bias in the media! Oops!!! Sorry! BBS I didnt see that the first time! Thanks Buckee!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted July 3, 2005 Report Share Posted July 3, 2005 Re: Liberal Bias in the media! [ QUOTE ] The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast [/ QUOTE ] A quote about bias, by an author who is no doubt biased. Would be interesting to see just how the "research" was conducted to arrive at this conclusion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldksnarc Posted July 3, 2005 Report Share Posted July 3, 2005 Re: Liberal Bias in the media! There's bias in the media???? Really?? You're kidding?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisherguy Posted July 3, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2005 Re: Liberal Bias in the media! I think oldsnark was being sarcastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted July 4, 2005 Report Share Posted July 4, 2005 Re: Liberal Bias in the media! [ QUOTE ] 1. Durbin vs. Rove 2. Clinton vs. Gingrich 3. Media Bias Basics 4. That Liberal Media [/ QUOTE ] I posted this on 6/26 in this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted July 4, 2005 Report Share Posted July 4, 2005 Re: Liberal Bias in the media! [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] There's bias in the media???? Really?? You're kidding?? [/ QUOTE ] where are the facts you guys blame me for not giveing facts, you arent giveing facts. i am making a compeling argument. i just want some facts that give me any reason that there is a liberal bias in the media! [/ QUOTE ] And you are giving supporting facts for your argument where??? This book you claim as facts is all opinions. Try and tell me an author of such a book does not have an unbiased opinion in writing something such as this. Come on, give me a break buddy. Quit grasping, the election is over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horst Posted July 4, 2005 Report Share Posted July 4, 2005 Re: Liberal Bias in the media! BBS, trying to get around the language editing feature isnt gonna get you anywhere but banned, keep it clean ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnf Posted July 4, 2005 Report Share Posted July 4, 2005 Re: Liberal Bias in the media! [ QUOTE ] every one who thinks the media has a liberal bias. Give me some evidence i dont want to here. "it just is". Give me some real facts! [/ QUOTE ] If I were color blind could you prove to me that the sky is blue. I don't really think it is, it must be green. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted July 4, 2005 Report Share Posted July 4, 2005 Re: Liberal Bias in the media! Hey, it looks like BBS is right. Greg Palast isn't biased at all. Not even a little. Greg Palast Deal with it BBS, EVERYBODY is biased in one way or another. It's human nature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robk Posted July 4, 2005 Report Share Posted July 4, 2005 Re: Liberal Bias in the media! i see this has turned into nana na naaaaaaaaaa thread and i think the truth shall be heard lol. first off if franken wrote it it is a bias story to start with. franken is well known to turn the tables and does create all kinds of hoopla and lead people to the exact mudslinging you guys are doing now. thr truth be said just listen to the news and i mean all of the news affiliates then go ask some o the troops about iraq and afghanistan. the story is completely different and it just goes that unless your a solider there and not a new caster as they will always go for the negative due to liberal factions that own the media stations and refuse to show the government right and will always be that way until the end of time. when a person is mad atthe government the news will print it or bring in on air. if a person tries to rebute the negative it won't last long if shown once then dropped it has always been that way. vietnam was the first war they had on the news and now every news story out of iraq has been unfavorable toward the government i have yet to see a positive spin on our involvement in iraq or afghanistan but it is important and when listening to the news at night the main jest of it all is on iraq. we are there and for a good reason and i know they say there were no weapons of mass destruction but they foudn all the materials there to build them and what happened with all of that many yrears of refusing to allow the inspectors in and what happened to those weapons of mass destruction they actually had. they haven't talked about the fact that electricitiy has found it;s way into most all of the homes that never hasd it before and the schools they have opened or the fact the money they siezed from saddam's bank accounts and put it directly back intot he economy how many stories did you see on that kind of work being done in iraq. also about the people who will stand in line and i am talking people with college educations and lawyers and doctors and other people of higher education standing in line just to fill sandbags for a measly few dollars to have to feed their family or when an attack would occur they would scatter but as soon as the attack was over the people were back in line and ready for work. sounds to me like we're doing some great good inthe country and i also feel that in a few years it will be solid footing and we can leave there and let htem fend for themselves. hteir government is in place and it is them getting attacked now not so much as the military but we still get hit but not as much and their police and their army that is building is starting to take over some of the work that needs to be done rob k just a thinkg or two the media won't really play with Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted July 5, 2005 Report Share Posted July 5, 2005 Re: Liberal Bias in the media! [ QUOTE ] you think that i am still mad about the election come on buddy that is in the past who gives a dang I Still dont understand why you think he is bias you are bias yourself because you think the book is all opinion. Man you sure now how to assume!! [/ QUOTE ] You brought this up. Sure I am biased as is anyone. I have my own opinions I have formed over the course of my life based on my own experiences . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texan_Til_I_Die Posted July 5, 2005 Report Share Posted July 5, 2005 Re: Liberal Bias in the media! [ QUOTE ] i got my facts from the book The best democracy money can buy. I cant rember who the author is but in the book it said that in the 2000 election that 56% of the time the press wrote negative things about Gore and only 43% of the time did they write negative storys on Bush. Now i got my info from the book and they got it from Columbia univerisy. Now if anyone has any question just post it k [/ QUOTE ] I wonder who/what qualifies as "the press" in those statistics? I usually think of it as newspapers, magazines, TV and radio news casts. I have a difficult time believing those outlets would INTENTIONALLY publish more negatives about Gore than about Bush. Of course, there's also the possibilty that there were just more bad things about Gore to start with, so naturally there would be more negative stories... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swamphunter Posted July 6, 2005 Report Share Posted July 6, 2005 Re: Liberal Bias in the media! [ QUOTE ] do I lock this post now or wait 10 minutes, just for the fun of it ?? [/ QUOTE ] Made it a lot longer than I ever would have though buckee!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted July 6, 2005 Report Share Posted July 6, 2005 Re: Liberal Bias in the media! [ QUOTE ] You also have News orgainizaing like FOX News Washington Times New York times and talk radio all have conservitive bias. [/ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] very funny you guys just have a hard time saying that you are wrong about the press haveing a liberal bias there is no BIAS!!!!!!!!!!!! [/ QUOTE ] So which is it Mr great debater Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texan_Til_I_Die Posted July 6, 2005 Report Share Posted July 6, 2005 Re: Liberal Bias in the media! [ QUOTE ] very funny you guys just have a hard time saying that you are wrong about the press haveing a liberal bias there is no BIAS!!!!!!!!!!!! [/ QUOTE ] I really was being serious with my question. If you include all of the Internet bloggers and TALK (not news) radio, there very easily could be more negatives on Gore than on Bush. The difference is that those outlets don't claim to be unbiased, but the so called mainstream media does. And its in that supposedly unbiased mainstream media where you see the stories routinely slanted towards the left. And one other point - sometimes it's what doesn't get reported that gives me heartburn. Much of the good that the conservatives have accomplished never makes the news or it gets buried on page D32 of the New York Times. I have absolutely no problem with anyone, even the press, being liberal or conservative, just admit it when you are! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texan_Til_I_Die Posted July 6, 2005 Report Share Posted July 6, 2005 Re: Liberal Bias in the media! BTW - If you want an example of liberal bias try this on for size.... July 2005 CNN anchor Carol Costello stated, during an interview with Representative Robin Hayes, that "there is no evidence that Saddam Hussein was connected in any way to al Qaeda." Later that same day, anchor Daryn Kagan said, "according to the record, the 9/11 Commission in its final report found no connection between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein." Both of those statements, made by CNN anchors, a supposedly "unbiased" media outlet, are false. (I'll be nice and not call them lies) In fact, Thomas Kean, chairman of the 9/11 Commission, stated during a press conference that "there was no question in our minds that there was a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda." Moreover, his Commission's report detailed several "friendly contacts" between Iraq and al Qaeda, and concluded only that there was no proof of Iraqi involvement in al Qaeda terrorist attacks against American interests. If you would like, I can supply you many more instances of connections between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and al Qaeda... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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