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Thread #28191   Message #349070
Posted By: mousethief
30-Nov-00 - 02:05 PM
Thread Name: BS: 'Liberal media'?
Subject: RE: BS: 'Liberal media'?
This is the media which is owned by huge corporations, and paid for by advertisements from huge corporations, and we're supposed to believe it has a liberal bias. It is to laugh.

This is the media that knew nearly a year ago that George W. had a DWI but sat on it until some guy from Maine looked it up at the DMV and brought it up again.

I'm not buying it.

When I worked in HIV/AIDS Epidemiology at the health department, I would sit around and listen to the gays and lesbians (wonderful people, all) complain how the media represented them and how slanted (to the right) the coverage of the homosexual community is.

And I hear the same (mutatis mutandis) from people on the right. Seems like nobody's happy with the media. I heard one guy talk about a pro-life rally he was involved in, and no representatives from the media were there. My wife (who does PR as a sideline) asked him how many they had invited and he stared at her like she was from the moon. Yeah, some bias.

Perhaps the reason the conservatives say "liberal media" is that "liberal" is the worst invective they can think of.

Alex