WarrenJ Posted October 14, 2008 Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 Look, you should understand I'm not a left wing-nut. Neither am I a right wing-nut. I'm simply one of those Americans who is just slightly to the right of center. There's a lot of us out there. Maybe the majority. I'd be interested in hearing your opinions. Do you believe the Main Stream Media (MSM) has an agenda? Regards, Warren There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved. - Ludwig von Mises Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimD Posted October 14, 2008 Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 Print. It would be too easy to paint all of the MSM with the same brush. Most (OK, some) of us know how the NYT will spin a story compared to how the WSJ would spin the same story. You have to read both versions to have any chance of determining the underlying facts for yourself. Electronic. I consider TV to be a vast waste of RF bandwidth (other than weather and live sports!). A complicated political, financial, or international event cannot be reported in the time slots dictated by the advertising department accountants. AM talk radio does not pretend to be anything except what it is; 100% right of center on all things political, economic and social. The left leaning crowd has not figured out how to get a handle on this medium so far. Agenda would be too strong a term for me. Agenda suggests that most J school grads are singing from the same sheet. Agenda suggests that most J school professors are programming students to sing from the same sheet. Bias works for me. And the bias can be attributed to age. I was left of center 40+ years ago. Not now. Whoops, this grew into more than I intended. Jim Drive your car. Use your cell phone. CHOOSE ONE ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranger Posted October 14, 2008 Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 Media? Biased? Without a doubt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BodybyFisher Posted October 14, 2008 Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 The media is clearly in the bag for the Democrats and Obama. Media Bias Basics from http://www.mediaresearch.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Liberal Media Exposed (PDF Report): Formatted, easy-to-print pages detailing the key results of nearly two dozen surveys about media bias. The report also includes quotes from top journalists denying a liberal media bias, plus comments from journalists acknowledging the problem. Updated May 2007. >>> http://www.mrc.org/biasbasics/pdf/BiasBasics.pdf How the Media Vote. Surveys of journalists’ self-reported voting habits show them backing the Democratic candidate in every presidential election since 1964, including landslide losers George McGovern, Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis. In 2004, a poll conducted by the University of Connecticut found journalists backed John Kerry over George W. Bush by a greater than two-to-one margin. See Section. Journalists’ Political Views. Compared to their audiences, journalists are far more likely to say they are Democrats or liberals, and they espouse liberal positions on a wide variety of issues. A 2004 poll by the Pew Research Center for The People & The Press found five times more journalists described themselves as “liberal” as said they were “conservative.” See Section. How the Public Views the Media. In increasing numbers, the viewing audiences recognize the media’s liberal tilt. Gallup polls have consistently found that three times as many see the media as “too liberal” as see a media that is “too conservative.” A 2005 survey conducted for the American Journalism Review found nearly two-thirds of the public disagreed with the statement, “The news media try to report the news without bias,” and 42 percent of adults disagreed strongly. See Section. Admissions of Liberal Bias. A number of journalists have admitted that the majority of their brethren approach the news from a liberal angle. During the 2004 presidential campaign, for example, Newsweek’s Evan Thomas predicted that sympathetic media coverage would boost Kerry’s vote by “maybe 15 points,” which he later revised to five points. In 2005, ex-CBS News President Van Gordon Sauter confessed he stopped watching his old network: “The unremitting liberal orientation finally became too much for me.” See Section Denials of Liberal Bias. Many journalists continue to deny the liberal bias that taints their profession. During the height of CBS’s forged memo scandal during the 2004 campaign, Dan Rather insisted that the problem wasn’t his bias, it was his anybody who criticized him. “People who are so passionately partisan politically or ideologically committed basically say, ‘Because he won’t report it our way, we’re going to hang something bad around his neck and choke him with it, check him out of existence if we can, if not make him feel great pain,’” Rather told USA Today in September 2004. “They know that I’m fiercely independent and that’s what drives them up a wall.” See Section. Evidence of Bias in News Coverage. The Media Research Center continuously reports on instances of the liberal bias in the mainstream media. Daily CyberAlerts offer a regular roundup of the latest instances of biased reporting, while our NewsBusters blog allows Web users to post their own reactions. Media Reality Check fax reports showcase important stories that the news media have distorted or ignored, and several times each year the MRC publishes Special Reports offering in-depth documentation of the media’s bias on specific issues. Here are Video's illustrating the media bias http://www.mrc.org/mp3/welcome.asp Pre-1995 - DTC codes OBD1 >> 1996 and newer - DTC codes OBD2 >> https://www.obd-codes.com/trouble_codes/gm/obd_codes.htm How to check for codes Caddyinfo How To Technical Archive >> http://www.caddyinfo.com/wordpress/cadillac-how-to-faq/ Cadillac History & Specifications Year by Year http://www.motorera.com/cadillac/index.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenJ Posted October 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 Gee Mike, any chance I struck a nerve? There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved. - Ludwig von Mises Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BodybyFisher Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 Gee Mike, any chance I struck a nerve? Oh come on, I didn't rant on, , just the facts, just the facts. Actually, I think this was a loaded question and you were setting me up! You know, push his button and watch him GO....... You have to understand something about me. I have been a commecial real estate appraiser since 1982 and if I simply said, "The media is clearly in the bag for the Democrats and Obama". That is an opinion without support. As an appraiser, you must always support your opinion. That is why I tend to post more that one word or one paragraph answers. Pre-1995 - DTC codes OBD1 >> 1996 and newer - DTC codes OBD2 >> https://www.obd-codes.com/trouble_codes/gm/obd_codes.htm How to check for codes Caddyinfo How To Technical Archive >> http://www.caddyinfo.com/wordpress/cadillac-how-to-faq/ Cadillac History & Specifications Year by Year http://www.motorera.com/cadillac/index.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenJ Posted October 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 Gee Mike, any chance I struck a nerve? Oh come on, I didn't rant on, , just the facts, just the facts. Actually, I think this was a loaded question It seems I'm very transparent! GOTCHA! :D There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved. - Ludwig von Mises Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenJ Posted October 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 Bias works for me. And the bias can be attributed to age. I was left of center 40+ years ago. Not now. Yeah, I stood at your side in those days. Funny how I thought my Dad was a wing-nut. I miss him. Dearly and deeply. Regards, Warren There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved. - Ludwig von Mises Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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