From: Damien Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Tue May 13 2003 - 15:29:20 MDT
gts wrote:
I have a theory about why the non-cable news media tends to be biased to the
left: the majority of American news consumers are biased to the left, and
the news media is merely a product designed to meet consumer demand. Notice
that I did not say the majority of American *voters*.
A friend replies:
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My theory was that the media, if it's doing a good job, reports many
different things and viewpoints - and many different viewpoints ends up being,
by strict definition, liberal.
I can only say that I listen to NPR, and often hear conservative things I
don't like, but it's accused of being "liberal". And I do hear "liberal"
things I do like, too. Being a liberal, I accept that the media should cover
both. ;)
Maybe you could run the argument more along the lines of: there are left-wing
and right-wing and any number of narrow-viewpoint sources. But a truly good
source will report a lot of things you don't agree with. Conservatives don't
like different things, liberals do -- by definition. So a good media is going
to be a liberal media.
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"And the Nation is really conservative! Just on the left." (me)
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Yes -- part of the problem is the blurring of left/right vs. traditional
definitions behind liberal/conservative.
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-xx- Damien X-)
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