Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Mainstream Media bias? Answering comment
--==MY BLOG==--: The Roughstock Journal, a Yolo County Blog (Mainstream Media bias?)#110788368877507944
Dear Commentator,
I thought it was obvious, but my enlightenment vs.
ignorance comment was based on willingness vs. unwillingness to accept the
countless data and factual evidence presented on media bias specifically at href="http://www.Mediamatters.org">MEDIA MATTERS websitesize=2>. It clearly shows who the perpetrators are. I
haven't gotten my BS yet, but I do side with the majority of people who have
degrees in being a progressive thinker specifically against the Bush
regime.
As far as facts go. If you're not using facts,
then it's just rhetoric. I'll gladly back up any claims I make with factual
evidence.
That book about liberal bias in media. Well,
liberal denotes inclusive and open to different beliefs, so that's contradictory
in itself.
Quoting reviews:
ignorance comment was based on willingness vs. unwillingness to accept the
countless data and factual evidence presented on media bias specifically at href="http://www.Mediamatters.org">MEDIA MATTERS websitesize=2>. It clearly shows who the perpetrators are. I
haven't gotten my BS yet, but I do side with the majority of people who have
degrees in being a progressive thinker specifically against the Bush
regime.
As far as facts go. If you're not using facts,
then it's just rhetoric. I'll gladly back up any claims I make with factual
evidence.
That book about liberal bias in media. Well,
liberal denotes inclusive and open to different beliefs, so that's contradictory
in itself.
Quoting reviews:
"what I got was a poorly
written, gossip-ridden, whiny screed by a very bitter man."
"Ultimately,
'Bias' is a self-serving hit piece that acts as a distraction from the more
serious media issues facing our country. Two things are vital to a functioning
democratic republic: a well-informed citizenry and an educated citizenry.
Unfortunately, in this sound bite driven culture we have lost
both."color=#000000>
I tend to agree with the second. href="http://www.mediamatters.org">We've got all these pundits who distort
"news", there's no way for average Joe to have the knowledge needed to
be informed.
"news", there's no way for average Joe to have the knowledge needed to
be informed.
I highly recommend the Daily Show on Comedy Central,
it's Funny and informative.
it's Funny and informative.
Quoting the "Facts proving liberal media bias" from "Bias":
--A CBS reporter in a conference call
labeling former presidential candidate Gary Bauer "that little nut from the
Christian Group." And no editors listening objected.
--How the news media
went along with early contentions by AIDS activists that the horrorific
disease put the entire heterosexual population at risk versus specific
segments (homosexuals, drug users and those that have sex with them).
--How
the word "controversial" often means the reporter/show does not agree with the
person or issue to which it refers.
--How conservatives are labelled as
such but liberals aren't.
--"they don't simply disagree with conservatives.
They see them as morally deficient."
--"The sophisticated media elites
don't categorize their beliefs as liberal but as simply the correct way to
look at things."
Editors and Producers
make decision and people have opinions. There's no "factual evidence on media
bias" there either.
make decision and people have opinions. There's no "factual evidence on media
bias" there either.
I'm ignorant of
MSM, Google for "MSM" showed following possible acronym so I can't really
respond there:
MSM, Google for "MSM" showed following possible acronym so I can't really
respond there:
Some sort of Vitamin or
something from drugstores or supplement (very prevalent).
Morehouse School
of Medicine.
Maastricht School of Management
Dept of materials science
and . . .(cutoff)
Michael Methfessel's home page (interesting looking
site)
I do vote for Impeaching Bush Now.
I did visit href="http://ratherbiased.com/bizarre.htm">ratherbiased. (didn't see
"rathergate" and didn't feel like searching for it). It looks like Rather's just
a normal guy who got lucky with the reporting career.
"rathergate" and didn't feel like searching for it). It looks like Rather's just
a normal guy who got lucky with the reporting career.
Rathergate? My
understanding was that the only potential factual problem was a
SINGLE, POSSIBLY forged document, reviewed by the White House before being used,
and they said it was a true document. Forged or real, the document presented
TRUE information. Does anyone have FACTS on this one way or the other? I know
Bush confessed to most or all the information, but still some people made an
issue about it in order to further the right wing agenda.
understanding was that the only potential factual problem was a
SINGLE, POSSIBLY forged document, reviewed by the White House before being used,
and they said it was a true document. Forged or real, the document presented
TRUE information. Does anyone have FACTS on this one way or the other? I know
Bush confessed to most or all the information, but still some people made an
issue about it in order to further the right wing agenda.
Lifted from Amazon, a thorough review of
"Bias":
"Bias":
¶ 3:14 PM
"Reviewer: href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/cm/member-glance/-/AMDSWLMDN7JR6/1/ref=cm_cr_auth/002-4231006-2528853?%5Fencoding=UTF8"> style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Doc Barham "Integral Consultant,
Speaker & Trainer" (LOS ANGELES, CA USA) -
Bernard Goldberg would probably accuse me of being
biased, and I confess, I am. After dropping fifteen dollars and slogging
through this overblown tattletale pamphlet I was sorely disappointed. I
thought I might finally read something that truly exposed the "liberal media
bias" conspiracy we all hear so much about these days. Instead, what I got was
a poorly written, gossip-ridden, whiny screed by a very bitter man.
What I've finally realized is that "liberal media bias"
is a huge red herring for several reasons:
For starters, with no irony whatsoever, conservative
talking heads and pundits like Mr. Goldberg regularly complain about liberal
bias on and in the same networks and newspapers they claim are the worst
offenders.
In addition, there are any number of
unabashedly conservative media outlets nationwide: Fox News, Clear Channel,
Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge, MSNBC, CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, The
Washington Times, The Weekly Standard, American Spectator, Ken Hamblin,
Michael Savage, and the list goes on.
What's more, even
traditionally progressive news outlets like The New York times, Washington
Post, LA Times, and Atlantic Monthly have drunk deep the liberal media
Kool-Aid and shifted further right in their reportage.
The fact is that the nation's information pipeline is now owned and controlled
by a mere handful of massive multi-media conglomerates. Corporations are by
their very nature conservative. They're businesses and their business is to
make money. They don't profit by straying too far to one side or challenging
the Establishment status quo. They can't afford it. They would risk losing
viewers and/or readership and millions of dollars from advertisers who
regularly pull or threaten to pull their ads over news stories or programming
they don't support or wish to be associated with.
The
news just isn't the news anymore. Bias isn't the problem and Mr. Goldberg
seems to miss this point entirely. The problem is that the news has been
reduced to superficial infotainment.
To say that a handful of dinosaurs at
a Jurassic network like CBS have a particular bias is old news and misses the
larger point entirely.
Ultimately, 'Bias' is a
self-serving hit piece that acts as a distraction from the more serious media
issues facing our country. Two things are vital to a functioning democratic
republic: a well-informed citizenry and an educated citizenry. Unfortunately,
in this sound bite driven culture we have lost both.
When Bernard Goldberg tackles the bigger problem of the "lowest common
denominator media bias" or the "mindless consumerism media bias" or the
"infotainment media bias" then perhaps I'll be ready to plunk down a few more
saw bucks. Until then, I'll be posting 'Bias' on Amazon's used book section to
get some of my hard earned dollars back. My time wasted reading this book I
can never get back."
