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Originally Posted by ateamstupid
The whole "mainstream media is liberal," "mainstream media is conservative" line of thinking is lazy, paranoid and moronic. The media is too large and amorphous to lean one way. If they do lean one way, it's toward whatever gets the best ratings/readership/listeners. For a while, the country as a whole leaned more conservative, so the media generally leaned in that direction too (let Bush slide on monumental screwups). Now that the country has shifted more toward the Democrats, the media is going nuts for Obama and MSNBC has become less bashful about its slant, as Fox News did during the early Bush years. I guarantee that as soon as Obama slips up, the right-wing section of the media will be heard from loud and clear once again.
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That is total bs. Outside of Fox News which is decidedly conservative (with high ratings I might add) the other mainstream news channels are decidedly left. Any attempt to avoid this truth is foolhardy. The print media also leans left for the most part with exceptions to obviously cater to the other side. The ratings thing is BS as negative sells and there is always a way to spin it that way, often BASED on political leanings. Any attempt to say that the media let Bush slide on monumental screwups is laughable to say the least. The media is far more left than it is right and the sooner you realize it the more enlightened you can be.
Sometimes in life you have to concede that the reality may not be how you want it perceived but how it really is. I for the life of me cant understand why liberals deny that the majority of the mainstream media leans strongly their way? Why deny it? The evidence is so one sided that it is idiotic, paranoid and lazy to try to spin it any other way.