From: Michael Wiik (mwiik@messagenet.com)
Date: Fri May 09 2003 - 10:47:36 MDT
dehede011@aol.com wrote:
> If Fox News is biased it is a group that puts on many reporters with
> left wing convictions. It is ABC, CBS, NBC & PBS that make a practice of
> minimizing reporters with non left wing convictions. The charge is made that
> those sources are so biased they travel only with fellow believers and
> sincerely believe themselves to be the soul of objectivity.
> As to middle eastern media -- I have read a sampling of that media and
> they make even PBS look unbiased.
> Ron h.
You know, 'liberal' bloggers like atrios always refer to the SCLM -- 'so
called liberal media'. Imho, *all* the mass media in this country --
even PBS -- is very very conservative. Like, I've seen Noam Chomsky on
TV *once* (on PBS, with Bill Moyers). It just appears liberal next to
folks like Rush Limbaugh or Mike Savage (or Wiener, or whatever his name
is). Not spewing an incoherent never-ending fountain of hate? Hmmm, must
be a liberal.
TV news isn't about reporting news, objectively or otherwise, it's about
making money. It's far more profitable for news to be conservative. The
few corporations they do stories on are the ones that haven't bought
advertising, or whose shenanigans are so outrageous and public they
can't be ignored.
-Mike
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