BS: Media Bias. How's That, Again?

Subject: BS: Media Bias. How's That, Again?
From: GUEST,saulgoldie
Date: 22 Sep 11 - 12:59 PM

Of course this is not getting coverage on Fox "News." But the rest of them???

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Big-media-s-shameful-news-by-Will-Bunch-110921-694.html


Saul

Subject: RE: BS: Media Bias. How's That, Again?
From: Wesley S
Date: 22 Sep 11 - 02:44 PM

I'll bet if some of the women took off their shirts it would suddenly become "news". Or if some heads got busted open. Sad isn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: Media Bias. How's That, Again?
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 22 Sep 11 - 03:05 PM

I haven't come across any mention of the Michigan Governor disenfranchising the city's voers, except on Maddow's show.

Subject: RE: BS: Media Bias. How's That, Again?
From: Greg F.
Date: 22 Sep 11 - 03:08 PM

Yeah, just another example of that "Left Wing Bias" Doug R & the boobocracy prate on about.....

Subject: RE: BS: Media Bias. How's That, Again?
From: Lighter
Date: 22 Sep 11 - 03:14 PM

CNN covered it, if somewhat light-heartedly:

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2011/09/19/mxp-westhoven-occupywallstreet.hln

Fox News gave blog coverage only:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/09/17/demonstrators-occupy-wall-street-to-protest-influence-money-on-us-politics/

Both outlets mentioned the phrase "Arab Spring."

Subject: RE: BS: Media Bias. How's That, Again?
From: Bobert
Date: 22 Sep 11 - 03:25 PM

This has been one of my pet peeves going back for years now... The Republican dominated Federal Communication Commission has been changing the rules over the last 30 years and what we have is a lot of media consolidation and these outlets are now 100% corporate and are doing the bidding of the corporations... So, what we are getting is corporate (primarily Republican) propaganda...

Ask yourselves how many times Big Media has gone to a "liberal" for a comment??? When was the last time that Dennis Kucinich was on ABC, CBS or NBC??? Bernie Sanders... Sherrod Brown???

Face it, liberals have been and continue to be blackballed from Big Media...

But the right will continue with their "liberal media" mantra, not because there is any truth it it, but because it does work in keeping Big Media afraid of them...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Media Bias. How's That, Again?
From: Lighter
Date: 22 Sep 11 - 03:50 PM

As somebody once said, the media are as liberal as the billionaires who own the stations want them to be.

Which is more liberal than Fox News, IMO.

Subject: RE: BS: Media Bias. How's That, Again?
From: Amos
Date: 22 Sep 11 - 04:56 PM

THe problemisn't the media. Steven Colbert explained it in front of appointee Bush at the Press Corps dinner:


REALITY has a well-known liberal bias.



A

Subject: RE: BS: Media Bias. How's That, Again?
From: Lighter
Date: 22 Sep 11 - 05:06 PM

Yes, but the cosmos contains many realities. Are all tilted to the left?

If so, Who is responsible?

Subject: RE: BS: Media Bias. How's That, Again?
From: gnu
Date: 22 Sep 11 - 05:38 PM

John Stewart for pres and Colbert for VP with the likes of Bill Maher for secretary positions. It would be a hoot and probably far more sane governorship than has been seen in a long while.

I'd say Maher for pres but he'd get killed after the first sitting. he almost did the last time he "spoke up" and told the "unspeakable truth."

Subject: RE: BS: Media Bias. How's That, Again?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 22 Sep 11 - 08:04 PM

These facts agree with my perception of US media.

Subject: RE: BS: Media Bias. How's That, Again?
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Sep 11 - 09:35 PM

People don't want to be informed; they only want the illusion of being informed.

--Roger Ailes (Chairman of Fox News, former executive producer of Rush Limbaugh's TV talk show, one-time imagemaker and political consultant to Reagan, Bush, Nixon and Rudy Giuliani) in "New York" magazine, 1997.

In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.

--Henry Ward Beecher, "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit".

Subject: RE: BS: Media Bias. How's That, Again?
From: Bobert
Date: 22 Sep 11 - 10:00 PM

Roger Ailes learned that from Hitler, Rap, who said that people will always believe the "BIG LIE"...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Media Bias. How's That, Again?
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Sep 11 - 10:09 PM

No, that wasn't Hitler. Goebbels said that.

Subject: RE: BS: Media Bias. How's That, Again?
From: Bobert
Date: 22 Sep 11 - 10:16 PM

Splitting hairs there, Rap...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Media Bias. How's That, Again?
From: Lighter
Date: 22 Sep 11 - 10:26 PM

Hitler allegedly said, "To win the sympathy of the broad masses, you
must tell them the crudest and most stupid things."

Truth or falsity would seem not to matter, as long as you keep it crude and stupid.

For related fun, see my 7:23 post to the "Class Warfare" thread.

Subject: RE: BS: Media Bias. How's That, Again?
From: GUEST,Ebbie
Date: 23 Sep 11 - 03:19 AM

For the first time in several years I have television. I'm watching a lot of interviews and quite a bit of the US Congress and US Senate.

I listened to Dennis Kucinich this morning- I had heard him only in snatches of time before and had thought him fairly lifeless in his speech. This morning I found him forthright and punching in his views.

Yesterday I was very taken by the views of Alcee Hastings, US Representative from Florida. Wow. I'm going to keep an eye out for him.