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They think that owners of the media are Republican and editors and reporters are liberal making a "liberal media." If so, the owner must be really dumb or ineffective to not firing the editors and reporters.
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who would hire or fire someone based upon their political leanings. Right leaning people are far more observant of free speech rights where when lefty's don't like what you say they label it and want it banned. Maybe right leaning people hire based upon qualifications rather than on a 'feeling' like you.Had you not been 'told' what to be you would be an absolute vacuum. Well, maybe not an absolute vacuum since that is impossible but close.
Edits: 10/09/10
That's not a very believable storyline line! You should try again ;-)
So, I guess this is a pat, pat, good dog post.
Therefore, you grant journalism degrees primarily to idiots indoctrinated in your way of thinking. So of course, unless you want to build a network like FOX or a publication like the Washington Times, chances are you're going to pick from the pool of predominantly far-left journalists and editors. That's what you academics churn out.
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
So your little conjured up nonsense doesn't account for rightie's problem. Face it, there is no "liberal" media just one that even when owned by big corporations doesn't repeat your lies and spin.
Who do you think "makes" the news? Who do you think writes the crap that those media personalities read off their teleprompters and pervades the consciousness of viewers like you? It's the journalists/stringers indoctrinated in lefty thought who go off to write for AP/AFP/Reuters. Very little original journalism is done by the major news shows. It's all rehashed wire reports.
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
You cannot deny that corporations own most of the media, that local stations typically have Republican, pro-business owners, that few of the news readers we see on even network news have any journalism training, that there is no evidence that higher education using propaganda counter that you espouse, or that wire reporters are "liberals." In fact you are right that free lance foreign reports are all that the media corporations will allow their news department to use. The bottom line is all that is important, and professional news reporting is irrelevant-Faux has just abandoned any semblance of it.
If you were an unbiased poli sci scholar, you would be arguing my point, instead of against it.
Media Bias Is Real, Finds UCLA Political Scientist
By Meg Sullivan December 14, 2005
While the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal is conservative, the newspaper's news pages are liberal, even more liberal than The New York Times. The Drudge Report may have a right-wing reputation, but it leans left. Coverage by public television and radio is conservative compared to the rest of the mainstream media. Meanwhile, almost all major media outlets tilt to the left.
These are just a few of the surprising findings from a UCLA-led study, which is believed to be the first successful attempt at objectively quantifying bias in a range of media outlets and ranking them accordingly.
"I suspected that many media outlets would tilt to the left because surveys have shown that reporters tend to vote more Democrat than Republican," said Tim Groseclose, a UCLA political scientist and the study's lead author. "But I was surprised at just how pronounced the distinctions are."
"Overall, the major media outlets are quite moderate compared to members of Congress, but even so, there is a quantifiable and significant bias in that nearly all of them lean to the left," said co‑author Jeffrey Milyo, University of Missouri economist and public policy scholar.
The results appear in the latest issue of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, which will become available in mid-December.
Groseclose and Milyo based their research on a standard gauge of a lawmaker's support for liberal causes. Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) tracks the percentage of times that each lawmaker votes on the liberal side of an issue. Based on these votes, the ADA assigns a numerical score to each lawmaker, where "100" is the most liberal and "0" is the most conservative. After adjustments to compensate for disproportionate representation that the Senate gives to low‑population states and the lack of representation for the District of Columbia, the average ADA score in Congress (50.1) was assumed to represent the political position of the average U.S. voter.
Groseclose and Milyo then directed 21 research assistants — most of them college students — to scour U.S. media coverage of the past 10 years. They tallied the number of times each media outlet referred to think tanks and policy groups, such as the left-leaning NAACP or the right-leaning Heritage Foundation.
Next, they did the same exercise with speeches of U.S. lawmakers. If a media outlet displayed a citation pattern similar to that of a lawmaker, then Groseclose and Milyo's method assigned both a similar ADA score.
"A media person would have never done this study," said Groseclose, a UCLA political science professor, whose research and teaching focuses on the U.S. Congress. "It takes a Congress scholar even to think of using ADA scores as a measure. And I don't think many media scholars would have considered comparing news stories to congressional speeches."
Of the 20 major media outlets studied, 18 scored left of center, with CBS' "Evening News," The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times ranking second, third and fourth most liberal behind the news pages of The Wall Street Journal.
Only Fox News' "Special Report With Brit Hume" and The Washington Times scored right of the average U.S. voter.
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
The key word is your "proved." You reported the UCLA Newsroom story, which notes that, "Groseclose and Milyo then directed 21 research assistants — most of them college students — to scour U.S. media coverage of the past 10 years. They tallied the number of times each media outlet referred to think tanks and policy groups, such as the left-leaning NAACP or the right-leaning Heritage Foundation.
Next, they did the same exercise with speeches of U.S. lawmakers. If a media outlet displayed a citation pattern similar to that of a lawmaker, then Groseclose and Milyo's method assigned both a similar ADA score."
Briefly, they guessed liberalism by which policy groups were cited in the media and by members of Congress and then assigned the ADA score to the media.
Who is to say that the students were thorough in gathering the reports? Did you even read this poor quality report? NPR was found to be very centerist in its mention of policy groups.
All the referees in the journal that I reviewed this manuscript for rejected it as poorly done.
This report was hardly the first exploration of bias in the media. I used to be that most reporters for newspapers call themselves liberal but most were done in the 60s and 70s.
Dance all you want around the facts. We all know there is a tremendous left-leaning bias in the media. That's how idiots like you arrive at their bias in the first place.
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
As always your initial post is bs and you seek shelter by changing the subject or the last recourse of the fool, name-calling.
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
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