media bias charges

Many members, including me, use newspapers to raise or support an argument. When this involves factual reporting of an event, it probably doesn't matter much which newspaper it is, but when it comes to opinion pieces and editorials, it can. Perhaps surprisingly to some, my views range range...

1985 poll of 3,200 reporters: Self-identified as liberal, 55% Self-identified as conservative., 17% 1996 survey of Washington journalists: Self-identified as liberal, 61%, Self-identified as conservative, 9% http://www.mediaresearch.org/biasbasics/biasbasics.asp Over the years, many libs in...

I was made aware of this article by a friend, and wanted to post it here. I'm already sure just the fact it's national review will mean some won't even give it the time of day, but it really sums up exactly how I feel about the entire Palin situation, and how the left behaves politically...

Fox News producer sneaks into a GE shareholders meeting Now, that is infotainment!

The BBC is now a mouthpiece for Zionism A great article by Robert Fisk about how the British Israeli Lobby is bullying the BBC and the BBC is capitulating ... Robert Fisk: How can you trust the cowardly BBC...

Lots of controversy over this video and whether or not it's legitimate: Q9pRu-sRPb0 The criticisms are: 1. Presence of Norwegian Hamas supporter doctor Mads Gilbert, who is on record as saying doctors should take sides in conflicts and that he supports the 9/11 attacks. 2. The guy doing...

Left media bias re 911 and other "sensitive" topics, exposed One of the papers linked to at this website, Left Progressive Media Inside the Propaganda Model, by Peter Phillips and Project Censored, gets into the question of the bias shown by the left "alternative media", with a view of...

The Right is complaining that (a) the media is left-wing, and (b) that Obama is "getting away with murder" -- that is, the media isn't "going after" his association with Bill Ayers and similar unsavory characters, which would have buried any Republican. Presuming -- for the sake of the argument...

Steve Schmidt claimed, “Whatever the New York Times once was, it is not today by any standard a journalistic organization,” Schmidt said. “It is a pro-Obama organization that every day attacks Sen. McCain, attacks Gov. Palin, and excuses Sen. Obama.” Well. The Times just made Schmidt a liar...

I like the idea of FactCheck.org very much--although I think that fact checking should be a routine part of journalism. At any rate, has anyone seen a bias in FactCheck.org? I'm not sure if the bias leans one way or the other, but it seems like they subscribe to Fox's "fair and balanced" idea...

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/69_say_reporters_try_to_help_the_candidate_they_want_to_win

Bill Kristol has a hilarious column on the relentless and buffoonish attempts by the mainstream media to turn Sarah Palin into Tom Eagleton II. He notes that the effect of all the attention on Palin was to increase the ratings for her speech by about 50% over Joe Biden's stemwinder at the DNC...

In a thread concerning bias at Fox News, Cicero claimed (I think) that MSNBC is a worse offender than Fox. The purpose of this thread is to work with Cicero to define criteria that we can use for a structured thought experiment in order to score the networks. My thinking is that initially we...

From terrorist fist Jab http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jun/13/television.barackobama?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront to Obama's Baby mama? http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jlDT1TfqoK4Glx0Jy1SaWOoqsh7g I must admit, it's hard for me to believe that fox news would make such horribly...

Newsweak (spelling intentional) reports on the courageous efforts by the Obama partisans to defend their man from the eeeeevil Republicans: Of course, in an effort at balance, the article does talk about the groups that will be attempting to smear John McCain. No, just kidding. MoveOn...

According to the New York Times and the Obama Campaign, John McCain is lying about Obama: Well, thanks to the Times and Dr Rice for clearing that up for us. Of course you may wonder where anybody got the ridiculous notion that Barack Obama had agreed to meet unconditionally with Iran. Well...

Would it kill NPR, a taxpayer funded, as well as donor funded, medium, to have one program hosted by a conservative? How about even a conservative substitute host on The Diane Rhem Show (the only show named after its host, why?), during her frequent absences...

From The New Republic: And whose fault is it? Why, it's George W. Bush's fault, of course. Isn't everything? Only, according to this story, it actually seems to be working for Clinton.

In another gun related example of media ignorance, making the rounds of some of the more conservative blogs right now is this picture from Iraq: http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/iraq/082701iraqplane/im:/070814/photos_ts_wl_afp/140e13087c8865bec0c22bcf01aa597b The claim is this picture...

I think this is my second or third thread on a new Wiki, but here's "Conservapedia" an allegedly an alternative to Wikipedia for the American Christian Right Wing. They have a page accusing Wikipedia of liberal bias and include some of the following Their article on faith with a blurb on...

http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=45266

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2006/11/us_military_and.html THis is an interesting news item. Apparanly there is some disagreement over a particular source that claims to be an Iraqi police captain but who may not be. Further reading...

Someone needs to tell them that the left bias of the media is all a myth. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=411846&in_page_id=1770

With approval ratings at an all time low for President Bush, is the liberal bias in the media finally starting to show, or are conservatives using the media as a scapegoat for poor approval ratings?

Anti religious bias in the media Doesn’t the wall to wall (and positive) of the Pope’s funeral knock a few holes in the “Anti religious” media whine of the Christian right

The good news you don't get from Iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq - Something struck me as odd this fall as I watched a U.S. satellite news broadcast here in my Baghdad office. Something just didn't seem right. There was the usual tug-of-war between presidential candidates, a story about the Boston Red Sox...

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They arent being litera when they say "Fair n Balanced". Suddenly documentries are becoming a big political tool. Documentary Aims to Show Bias on Fox News NEW YORK (AP) - A new documentary backed by liberal political groups aims to document that the Fox News Channel is anything but "fair...

There is an ongoing debate about whether Network News and the Majority of print journalism is biased to the left of the political spectrum. I personally think it is but I find proving the notion problematic. In any event, this thread is about popular culture in the Media. Are the messages that...

A good question to all of the people on the forums. I know there has been derailing of threads on this issue, so I decided what the he**, lets get a solid debate right here instead of a tepid thread derail debate. I honestly think that the media is Conservatively Biased at the moment. I...