FNC’s O’Reilly Factor Picks Up MRC Study Documenting Slanted Campaign News
On Monday’s O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly and former CBS News correspondent Bernie Goldberg talked about MRC’s study of the broadcast networks’ Campaign 2010 coverage, which has only talked about conservatives and Tea Party Republicans as “extremist” or “fringe,” not liberals or congressional Democrats.
Goldberg argued that the problem is that “too many liberal journalists they don’t think there’s any such thing as an extremist on the left. Barney Frank isn’t an extremist on the left. Dennis Kucinich isn’t extreme. Alan Grayson, the most embarrassing member of Congress, who thinks that Republicans want you to die quickly, isn’t extreme. But, a conservative politician, especially if he or she is a member of the Tea Party is extreme.” (Video after the jump)
The MRC study of ABC’s World News, the CBS Evening News and found 35 evening news stories that discussed conservatives in terms of “extremism,” vs. zero stories that talked about liberals the same way. The review also found the networks employed three times as many “conservative” labels in their coverage (48) as “liberal” labels (14) — including no liberal tag (never mind "extremist") for Florida’s far-out Congressman Alan Grayson, while his opponent, Republican Daniel Webster, was highlighted as “conservative.”
Here’s the exchange from the November 1 O’Reilly Factor:
BILL O’REILLY: Thanks for staying with us. I’m Bill O’Reilly. In the “Weekdays with Bernie” segment tonight, it’s all about the election. The conservative Media Research Center watched the three nightly network newscasts from September 1 to October 25 to see how they were handling the political situation in America.
Well, here’s the headline. Only conservatives and Tea Party people were labeled extremists by the networks. No liberal person was given that description. Not one. Joining us from Miami, Fox News analyst Bernie Goldberg, the purveyor of BernardGoldberg.com. So you’re not surprised by this. But it was so blatant.
BERNARD GOLDBERG: Yes.
O’REILLY: That’s a pretty long period of time: September 1 to October 25. And George Soros, everybody else, nobody is an extremist on the left. But all these people are extremists on the right.
GOLDBERG: Yes, but that’s pretty easy to explain. Because too many liberal journalists they don’t think there’s any such thing as an extremist on the left. Barney Frank isn’t an extremist on the left. Dennis Kucinich isn’t extreme. Alan Grayson, the most embarrassing member of Congress, who thinks that Republicans want you to die quickly, isn’t extreme. But, a conservative politician, especially if he or she is a member of the Tea Party is extreme.
And that’s because as far as liberals in the media are concerned, every politician to the right of center is conservative. And that’s true. But, any politician to the left, no matter how far to the left is middle of the road, is mainstream. Because they’re observing this campaign sitting in the left-field bleachers. That’s why they think that.
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O'Reilly
Submitted by okiehawk44 on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 10:29am.
Even your colleague Kirsten Powers doesn't think any Democrat is leftist enough and she stated that last night on Hannity.
It's hard to even listen to such drivel coming from an otherwise intelligent human being. WOW!
Do what???!!!
Submitted by Iron Tigers Vet on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 10:31am.
I've never heard such a thing...
The left thinks that us conservatives are "fringe"? When did all this happen?
Prejudice
Submitted by KC Mulville on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 10:45am.
It's a media reflex. It's like calling Donovan McNabb a "black quarterback" instead of just a quarterback. It's an inherent prejudice that comes out for all to see.
Again, let me challenge the notion that identifying a candidate as "conservative" is a bad thing. It turns out to be a benefit to the candidates anyway, despite the sinister motives of the media.
This makes complete sense.
Submitted by CO on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 11:05am.
This makes complete sense. Whatever camp a person is in, to him that is going to be "normal". That being the case anything that deviates from his held beliefs will be considered extreme.
The problem is that most people in America do not really think ahead to what the long term affects will be for a given policy. There is the tendency to think only of the here and now and how it will affect me personally.
What would be nice is for journalists to be objective, but unfortunately we have a situation today where they work for the left. Their goal is not objective journalism, rather it is changing our country into something like we see in Europe. You know, the countries that are failing. In that regard it does appear liberalism is a mental disorder. I have to wonder if after today Obama will still think Americans who disagree with him are his enemies. He can't undo years and years of indoctrination that he has received. Maybe he needs rehab.
I wonder how small their
Submitted by snaggletoothie on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 12:01pm.
I wonder how small their audience has to get before we see real change in the alphabets. Or would the nets continue to spend a fortune on them even if they had no audience?China Wholesaler Town -
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