This was a hard one. If you take the total into account I would have to say Newspapers, but since I have the opportunity to check out more TV channels than newspapers, I had no choice but to vote TV.
Either way, the liberal MSM has gotten absolutely pathetic.
To me this is an easy one. For what is the one source that is repeated daily by television, radio and newspapers?
Since the bias in the AP and Reuters is crystal clear to me, I voted for the wire services.
My best friend (A flaming liberal) once told me this:
Freedom of the press by definition is a liberal action. Ever since this day I looked at the media differently. I never bought into their brainwashing after that day!
I would have to say that reguardless of who wins this pole, the reason that the MSM is doing such a poor job of reporting the news is that in todays world, reporters do not care about the story, they only care about what the story will do for their career and therefore their pocketbook.
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level
with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife. ~
Theodore Roosevelt
Here in the Rochester New York area, I found it to be the Democrat & Chronicle news paper. While talking to a news reporter at the paper about the male cross dressing (transgender) science teacher in Batavia New York, the reporter sounded fair and even upset over how the superintendent of the school had treated her. Yet, her article the next day, was biased on the side of the cross dresser and it took the word of the Superintendent. I was told by a local activist, who the Superintendent had arrested for passing out fliers on the same night that the reporter was denied access to an evening meeting, that it turned out to be her editor that slanted the story: http://www.debrajmsmith.com/batavia2.html
(I would quit that job before I let an editor do that to me.)
No fair making us choose. I had to pick Newspapers because nothing was as vile or vitriolic as what was written in the papers. Not to mention, they got away with a lot more... and that stuff gets into our historical record in libraries and archives which can later be referenced as if it were truth.
They're setting up future lies with their current lies. Lie now, reference lie later to substantiate new lie.
"They're setting up future lies with their current lies. Lie now, reference lie later to substantiate new lie."
EXACTLY. That's how evolution, Big Foot, the Yeti, UFO's, and every single MSM news story gets to where they are today ... feed an agitated minority quarter-truths, half-facts, and lies until they can run with it and make a virtual religion out of it (like global warming for instance).
CT, the next thing you know, he'll tell us that WWE "wrestling" is fake. I am devastated to find out there is no bigfoot or anthropogenic global warming. The next thing you know, tumbler will be telling us there is no illegal immigration problem.
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
"They're setting up future lies with their current lies. Lie now, reference lie later to substantiate new lie."
EXACTLY. That's how evolution, Big Foot, the Yeti, UFO's, and every single MSM news story gets to where they are today ... feed an agitated minority quarter-truths, half-facts, and lies until they can run with it and make a virtual religion out of it (like global warming for instance).
I wanted to be nice to you. But let me just correct you about one mistake you're making:
The Pope has no Church of his own. When I say I'm loyal it's because the Church he leads is founded by Christ on His holy apostles. Christ never founded a "Bible-preaching church. But it's no problem of mine; believe what you please.
It's clear you will deny this. I don't rightly care. I just corrected you about my politics. i'm more conservative than you give me credit for. Going on to:
"Do more as: detaining, deporting, denying medical, educational & welfare services, support funding 3-4-5 layered fences between Canada and Mexico and heavily guarding the borders?" --Just detain and deport lawfully, and guard our border as best we can. We do that now. Layered fences might help, but would be too costly and inefficient, IMHO.
Go on, build them. More illegals enter by the border checkpoints than out of the desert. They'll keep coming. All it takes is a smattering of English, a temporary permit, or Green Card. They overstay the deadline.--Adios . . .! Or, they come in smuggled in cars; over the water in boats, with false papers, friends shuttle them in on their back seats.
Which shows us the trouble with fences, Chief. Everybody assumes those people are stupid, but far from it. Many use their wits; they aren't too dumb to improvise a way. Cattle don't know anything, that's why fences stop them. Men have ingenuity and intelligence. The fence is only an obstacle for them, not very fool-proof.
If you're a Chief, military; you must know. Soldiers are trained to overcome obstacles. I hate to inform you but, Mexican illegals have been at this for almost a century. They know their way around the border. Real results don't come out of old solutions. This is the 21st century. To stop this trafficking our gov't must:
End the job market these violaters are into. Efficiently, lawfully. No more jobs. There is technology available for tracking these markets and their employees.
End our inner cities demand for illegal drugs. Drug peddlers are filthy rich. They own good transportation, excellent firearms, and they bribe officials. They don't cross over on their bellies; they RIDE. They buy false documents, real refined ones. They even fly in. -- Pancho the peon is on foot, generally; damn near broke.
Finally, pass laws against illegal entry with teeth--the law. If caught, you must go to prison. Not simply ride a bus back to the border gate. Repeat offenders would be stopped cold. Nobody wants a fruit-picking job so badly he'll risk the penitentiary. Today's law is outdated. Oh, we'd hear a riot, --a SQAWK; but it would NOT fail; whereas a fence fails for sure.
I've been sincere and truthful; because I saw long ago what the traffic does. It exploits the poorest of the Mexican peasantry. And it sends good, decent poor people where a great part of our American population is bigoted and racially unjust. Where they're hated and reviled by ostensibly good Americans. Forget about fences. Fences are for animals, we're dealing with men and women.
The question should not be which one is more biased; it is a given that they are biased. The question should be how can we stop the bias. While this blog is great for sharing ideas on the biased media stories of the day, it is little more than an echo chamber.
For example, while most of the members of this blog railed at the stories leading up to this past election, the drive by media was instrumental in steering this country's voters to a Dem win.
Nevertheless, it is the job of the wire services to feed the major news outlets. For sometime, their stories have been biased in and of themselves. The newspapers have the most time to react to breaking news and thus, are the shapers of an "angle" that any given story may take. TV goes with the above two and then amplifies the key points of a story since they are always up against the clock in delivering any story to the public.
It is interesting that even a "fair and balanced" TV news outlet like Fox News generally goes with what is playing on the other channels. They rarely strike out on their own. Yet, they often tell the other side and sometimes take the opposite side of a given story. All in all, their efforts are blunted simple by the overwhelming readership/viewership of the other outlets.
Radio is the least biased of the news outlets. And, in fact, if you want to hear the conservative view it may be your only means to do so depending on access and your sophistication to seek out alternative web sites on the Internet.
What is glaringly absent from the list is leaving off the Internet as a choice. After all, it is the number one "culprit" in stealing "eyeballs" away from the drive by media excluding radio.
An interesting question in light of the death of President Ford. I believe it is Watergate which has emboldened the media for the past thirty years. Watergate demonstrated their true politcal power. Today the gloves are off completely. Everything they do is motivated by their desire to return to the days of Watergate. They are sick with it.
While Watergate was important, I think the present, if aging crop of liberal drive by media people realized their power when they were able to turn the Vietnam war against the American people.
Interesting enough, you will never ever hear the drive by media recount the torture, murder, and continued abject proverty that resulted at the hands of communist dictatorships following the US withdrawal from south east Asia.
Of course, I have never heard it up to now, nor I suspect, will I ever hear of it should we withdraw from the mideast.
It's the wire services who time and again have been exposed for bias in reporting from the Middle East with agents in place and reporting hand picked by the terrorists and the bosses of these news wires....
And it is the news wires who are feeding the red meat to the gullible and sychophantic left wing media in this country......
Remember....television, magazines and radio for the most part are simply "talking heads" with the IQ of a salt lick.......
I had to pick newspapers. The Washington Post may have single handedly changed the political balance in the Senate with their relentless hammering of George Allen's use of the word "macacca" (and implying that it was really the n-word in disguise, or some such nonsense). That he lost such a close election can be laid at the not-so-clean feet of the WaPo.
Also, as a former TV news reporter I can tell you that television news is greatly influenced by the newspapers and sometimes take their cues from them.
Most TV and Newspapers (and Websites and Radio Stations) get their "news" from AP's wire.
Wire Services > all
RightWired.
"How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin." - Ronald Reagan
It has been extremely interesting to read comments on this poll. Lets face it folks, voting for one versus the other was purely a matter of chance. For me, it all depended on which medium last fed me a line I knew was bunk. In my case, that was television.
Still, I agree with a previous response which said, "no fair making us chose!"
"All of the above," is the only possible proper answer since they are all equally culpable for their egregious offenses.
Well don't they get the news from reporters on the ground in say, Iraq? No wait, the reporters are sitting in the green zone hotels reading the wires. Uh, where do the wires get the news?
"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it."MM says...
JDW, did you see the photo's of the troops giving "Jon Kary" the ultimate SNUBB while he visited "Irak"; it was too rich to describe, so I linked it. My guess would be he is not real popular in that part of the world (with the U.S. troops anyway).
Blonde, thank you and may your prayers/wishes carry some weight (I may need it). BTW, same to you and thanks for the laughs this past year, looking forward to more in the not too distant future. Sincerely, JAB
This is a tough one to pick just one category because the top three are all in conjunction with each other....intentionally driving the politics of destruction towards that does not fit their socialistic agenda to put it nicely...
The majority of it is treasonous during a time of war in my opinion....among other things, including outright lies and false information and images...the majority of political television follows the lead of the papers like the NYT's and the WaPo.
Disgraceful all the way around.
By the way, I choose papers for that reason.
"If we ever forget that we are a Nation Under God....then we will be a Nation Gone Under." Ronald Reagan
Since there are still 3 major television networks, and there's not a lick of difference, as far as news, in the 3 of them, I'd have to say news. In the print media there are conservative papers that serve sections of the country. Conservative papers don't have to rely on the wire services. Fox News is now making it's way on to the radio so it's not that. Television, despite the fact that Fox News draws 1 million people to it's news, is no match for the lowly CBS, let alone ABC or NBC. None of these 3 networks is willing to become "fair and balanced" and I don't see that happening anytime soon.
The irony of this is that, since the television media still are able to control the message, the White House and the Bush Administration had the opportunity to make use of that but they just couldn't find a way. Tony Snow did a really good job at the press conferences, but the television media stopped showing them. (No sense in making yourselves look foolish).
It appears that President Bush thinks he can suck up to these guys and get good press. I would hope the last election proved him wrong on that account.
TV by a mile - other outlets at least can be more quickly called on their BS. Average TV viewer is clueless (and networks "know" this) plus - what feedback mechanism is there for TV? Newbusters? Well sure, but........
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This was a hard one. If you t
December 26, 2006 - 22:38 ET by Clear thinkerThis was a hard one. If you take the total into account I would have to say Newspapers, but since I have the opportunity to check out more TV channels than newspapers, I had no choice but to vote TV.
Either way, the liberal MSM has gotten absolutely pathetic.
To me this is an easy one.
December 26, 2006 - 22:56 ET by Rndguy35To me this is an easy one. For what is the one source that is repeated daily by television, radio and newspapers?
Since the bias in the AP and Reuters is crystal clear to me, I voted for the wire services.
My best friend (A flaming liberal) once told me this:
Freedom of the press by definition is a liberal action. Ever since this day I looked at the media differently. I never bought into their brainwashing after that day!
I said TV , but ther
December 26, 2006 - 23:22 ET by ww thumperI said TV , but there should have been a selection for "all of the above" ! :-) ww Being "Politcaly Correct" with ISLAM will distroy America......WW
I too voted the news wires be
December 27, 2006 - 09:33 ET by Dan The Man 2I too voted the news wires because most news is based off of those wires, either directly or indirectly.
Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark. -- save my gun, shoot a liberal.
I would have to say that re
December 26, 2006 - 23:30 ET by james789I would have to say that reguardless of who wins this pole, the reason that the MSM is doing such a poor job of reporting the news is that in todays world, reporters do not care about the story, they only care about what the story will do for their career and therefore their pocketbook.
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level
with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife. ~
Theodore Roosevelt
Here in the Rochester New Yor
December 27, 2006 - 00:58 ET byHere in the Rochester New York area, I found it to be the Democrat & Chronicle news paper. While talking to a news reporter at the paper about the male cross dressing (transgender) science teacher in Batavia New York, the reporter sounded fair and even upset over how the superintendent of the school had treated her. Yet, her article the next day, was biased on the side of the cross dresser and it took the word of the Superintendent. I was told by a local activist, who the Superintendent had arrested for passing out fliers on the same night that the reporter was denied access to an evening meeting, that it turned out to be her editor that slanted the story: http://www.debrajmsmith.com/batavia2.html
(I would quit that job before I let an editor do that to me.)
--Debra... of: www.InformingChristians.com
No fair making us choose. I
December 27, 2006 - 01:47 ET by liberal_bug_zapperNo fair making us choose. I had to pick Newspapers because nothing was as vile or vitriolic as what was written in the papers. Not to mention, they got away with a lot more... and that stuff gets into our historical record in libraries and archives which can later be referenced as if it were truth.
They're setting up future lies with their current lies. Lie now, reference lie later to substantiate new lie.
____________________________________________________
"These are the times that try men's souls." ~ Thomas Paine
"They're setting up futu
December 27, 2006 - 08:54 ET by jonathananderson"They're setting up future lies with their current lies. Lie now, reference lie later to substantiate new lie."
EXACTLY. That's how evolution, Big Foot, the Yeti, UFO's, and every single MSM news story gets to where they are today ... feed an agitated minority quarter-truths, half-facts, and lies until they can run with it and make a virtual religion out of it (like global warming for instance).
JA...You mean Bigfoot is not
December 27, 2006 - 18:13 ET by Clear thinkerJA...
You mean Bigfoot is not real? Geesh, how do I explain this to my granddaughter?
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CT, the next thing you know,
December 28, 2006 - 12:16 ET by MikeBCT, the next thing you know, he'll tell us that WWE "wrestling" is fake. I am devastated to find out there is no bigfoot or anthropogenic global warming. The next thing you know, tumbler will be telling us there is no illegal immigration problem.
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
I voted for the newspaper, bu
December 27, 2006 - 08:06 ET by msh1973I voted for the newspaper, but I think it is a tie between the first three. They all are completely bias and don't make any excuses for it. Shameful.
"They're setting up futu
December 27, 2006 - 08:57 ET by jonathananderson"They're setting up future lies with their current lies. Lie now, reference lie later to substantiate new lie."
EXACTLY. That's how evolution, Big Foot, the Yeti, UFO's, and every single MSM news story gets to where they are today ... feed an agitated minority quarter-truths, half-facts, and lies until they can run with it and make a virtual religion out of it (like global warming for instance).
Where's the option for (a), (
December 27, 2006 - 09:10 ET by jonathanandersonWhere's the option for (a), (b), AND (c)?
dear chief
January 5, 2007 - 16:19 ET by tumbler_2007I wanted to be nice to you. But let me just correct you about one mistake you're making:
The Pope has no Church of his own. When I say I'm loyal it's because the Church he leads is founded by Christ on His holy apostles. Christ never founded a "Bible-preaching church. But it's no problem of mine; believe what you please.
It's clear you will deny this. I don't rightly care. I just corrected you about my politics. i'm more conservative than you give me credit for. Going on to:
"Do more as: detaining, deporting, denying medical, educational & welfare services, support funding 3-4-5 layered fences between Canada and Mexico and heavily guarding the borders?" --Just detain and deport lawfully, and guard our border as best we can. We do that now. Layered fences might help, but would be too costly and inefficient, IMHO.
Go on, build them. More illegals enter by the border checkpoints than out of the desert. They'll keep coming. All it takes is a smattering of English, a temporary permit, or Green Card. They overstay the deadline.--Adios . . .! Or, they come in smuggled in cars; over the water in boats, with false papers, friends shuttle them in on their back seats.
Which shows us the trouble with fences, Chief. Everybody assumes those people are stupid, but far from it. Many use their wits; they aren't too dumb to improvise a way. Cattle don't know anything, that's why fences stop them. Men have ingenuity and intelligence. The fence is only an obstacle for them, not very fool-proof.
If you're a Chief, military; you must know. Soldiers are trained to overcome obstacles. I hate to inform you but, Mexican illegals have been at this for almost a century. They know their way around the border. Real results don't come out of old solutions. This is the 21st century. To stop this trafficking our gov't must:
End the job market these violaters are into. Efficiently, lawfully. No more jobs. There is technology available for tracking these markets and their employees.
End our inner cities demand for illegal drugs. Drug peddlers are filthy rich. They own good transportation, excellent firearms, and they bribe officials. They don't cross over on their bellies; they RIDE. They buy false documents, real refined ones. They even fly in. -- Pancho the peon is on foot, generally; damn near broke.
Finally, pass laws against illegal entry with teeth--the law. If caught, you must go to prison. Not simply ride a bus back to the border gate. Repeat offenders would be stopped cold. Nobody wants a fruit-picking job so badly he'll risk the penitentiary. Today's law is outdated. Oh, we'd hear a riot, --a SQAWK; but it would NOT fail; whereas a fence fails for sure.
I've been sincere and truthful; because I saw long ago what the traffic does. It exploits the poorest of the Mexican peasantry. And it sends good, decent poor people where a great part of our American population is bigoted and racially unjust. Where they're hated and reviled by ostensibly good Americans. Forget about fences. Fences are for animals, we're dealing with men and women.
Some thoughts . . .The questi
December 27, 2006 - 09:32 ET by jdhawkSome thoughts . . .
The question should not be which one is more biased; it is a given that they are biased. The question should be how can we stop the bias. While this blog is great for sharing ideas on the biased media stories of the day, it is little more than an echo chamber.
For example, while most of the members of this blog railed at the stories leading up to this past election, the drive by media was instrumental in steering this country's voters to a Dem win.
Nevertheless, it is the job of the wire services to feed the major news outlets. For sometime, their stories have been biased in and of themselves. The newspapers have the most time to react to breaking news and thus, are the shapers of an "angle" that any given story may take. TV goes with the above two and then amplifies the key points of a story since they are always up against the clock in delivering any story to the public.
It is interesting that even a "fair and balanced" TV news outlet like Fox News generally goes with what is playing on the other channels. They rarely strike out on their own. Yet, they often tell the other side and sometimes take the opposite side of a given story. All in all, their efforts are blunted simple by the overwhelming readership/viewership of the other outlets.
Radio is the least biased of the news outlets. And, in fact, if you want to hear the conservative view it may be your only means to do so depending on access and your sophistication to seek out alternative web sites on the Internet.
What is glaringly absent from the list is leaving off the Internet as a choice. After all, it is the number one "culprit" in stealing "eyeballs" away from the drive by media excluding radio.
interesting
December 27, 2006 - 10:04 ET by iveseenitallAn interesting question in light of the death of President Ford. I believe it is Watergate which has emboldened the media for the past thirty years. Watergate demonstrated their true politcal power. Today the gloves are off completely. Everything they do is motivated by their desire to return to the days of Watergate. They are sick with it.
NEVER,NEVER trust a liberal
While Watergate was important
December 27, 2006 - 10:55 ET by jdhawkWhile Watergate was important, I think the present, if aging crop of liberal drive by media people realized their power when they were able to turn the Vietnam war against the American people.
Interesting enough, you will never ever hear the drive by media recount the torture, murder, and continued abject proverty that resulted at the hands of communist dictatorships following the US withdrawal from south east Asia.
Of course, I have never heard it up to now, nor I suspect, will I ever hear of it should we withdraw from the mideast.
Common folks now.....It's the
December 27, 2006 - 10:48 ET by donsalesCommon folks now.....
It's the wire services who time and again have been exposed for bias in reporting from the Middle East with agents in place and reporting hand picked by the terrorists and the bosses of these news wires....
And it is the news wires who are feeding the red meat to the gullible and sychophantic left wing media in this country......
Remember....television, magazines and radio for the most part are simply "talking heads" with the IQ of a salt lick.......
Nowhere to Run....Nowhere To Hide.....
Reuters has been exposed on
December 27, 2006 - 18:35 ET by JDWJDW
Kerry: "You know, education, if you make the most of it ... you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
I had to pick newspapers. T
December 27, 2006 - 11:33 ET by NoMoreClintonsI had to pick newspapers. The Washington Post may have single handedly changed the political balance in the Senate with their relentless hammering of George Allen's use of the word "macacca" (and implying that it was really the n-word in disguise, or some such nonsense). That he lost such a close election can be laid at the not-so-clean feet of the WaPo.
Also, as a former TV news reporter I can tell you that television news is greatly influenced by the newspapers and sometimes take their cues from them.
Wire Services By Far
December 27, 2006 - 14:31 ET by RightWiredMost TV and Newspapers (and Websites and Radio Stations) get their "news" from AP's wire.
Wire Services > all
RightWired.
"How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin." - Ronald Reagan
Media Bias
December 27, 2006 - 14:41 ET by RubiconIt has been extremely interesting to read comments on this poll. Lets face it folks, voting for one versus the other was purely a matter of chance. For me, it all depended on which medium last fed me a line I knew was bunk. In my case, that was television.
Still, I agree with a previous response which said, "no fair making us chose!"
"All of the above," is the only possible proper answer since they are all equally culpable for their egregious offenses.
What would any of form of m
December 27, 2006 - 15:42 ET by JDWWhat would any of form of media have to say without wire services?
JDW
Kerry: "You know, education, if you make the most of it ... you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
Well don't they get the new
December 27, 2006 - 15:58 ET by MightyMouthWell don't they get the news from reporters on the ground in say, Iraq? No wait, the reporters are sitting in the green zone hotels reading the wires. Uh, where do the wires get the news?
"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...
They are too concerned abou
December 27, 2006 - 18:43 ET by JDWThey are too concerned about the excellent medical care, the fact that soldiers are surviving with loss of limbs...
How many stories come from deals made with terrorists?
JDW
Kerry: "You know, education, if you make the most of it ... you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
JDW, did you see the photo's
December 27, 2006 - 18:53 ET by JABJDW, did you see the photo's of the troops giving "Jon Kary" the ultimate SNUBB while he visited "Irak"; it was too rich to describe, so I linked it. My guess would be he is not real popular in that part of the world (with the U.S. troops anyway).
"Too bad Ignorance isn't painful to the Ignorant"
Thanks, I have it.JDWKerry:
December 27, 2006 - 19:14 ET by JDWThanks, I have it.
JDW
Kerry: "You know, education, if you make the most of it ... you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
JAB,That photo is sweet!I'm h
December 27, 2006 - 19:25 ET by BlondeJAB,
That photo is sweet!
I'm headed back to that site to follow the link.
A happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year to you, my friend.
Blonde, thank you and may you
December 27, 2006 - 19:31 ET by JABBlonde, thank you and may your prayers/wishes carry some weight (I may need it). BTW, same to you and thanks for the laughs this past year, looking forward to more in the not too distant future. Sincerely, JAB
"Too bad Ignorance isn't painful to the Ignorant"
JAB,You are too kind, sir.Tha
December 27, 2006 - 19:45 ET by BlondeJAB,
You are too kind, sir.
Thanks for making the 'tween time (Christmas and New Year) so much fun.
That link you posted is the very best. I'd be surprised if it doesn't hit the news tomorrow. Poor F'ing! Laughing!
Be well, friend. And thanks again!
JAB...that link made my night
December 27, 2006 - 21:00 ET by bigtimerJAB...that link made my night!
You reap what you sow, John F'n Kerry just proved it!
A picture is worth a thousand words as they say!
"If we ever forget that we are a Nation Under God....then we will be a Nation Gone Under." Ronald Reagan
This is a tough one to pick j
December 27, 2006 - 16:49 ET by bigtimerThis is a tough one to pick just one category because the top three are all in conjunction with each other....intentionally driving the politics of destruction towards that does not fit their socialistic agenda to put it nicely...
The majority of it is treasonous during a time of war in my opinion....among other things, including outright lies and false information and images...the majority of political television follows the lead of the papers like the NYT's and the WaPo.
Disgraceful all the way around.
By the way, I choose papers for that reason.
"If we ever forget that we are a Nation Under God....then we will be a Nation Gone Under." Ronald Reagan
Television
December 27, 2006 - 19:26 ET by pbthinkerSince there are still 3 major television networks, and there's not a lick of difference, as far as news, in the 3 of them, I'd have to say news. In the print media there are conservative papers that serve sections of the country. Conservative papers don't have to rely on the wire services. Fox News is now making it's way on to the radio so it's not that. Television, despite the fact that Fox News draws 1 million people to it's news, is no match for the lowly CBS, let alone ABC or NBC. None of these 3 networks is willing to become "fair and balanced" and I don't see that happening anytime soon.
The irony of this is that, since the television media still are able to control the message, the White House and the Bush Administration had the opportunity to make use of that but they just couldn't find a way. Tony Snow did a really good job at the press conferences, but the television media stopped showing them. (No sense in making yourselves look foolish).
It appears that President Bush thinks he can suck up to these guys and get good press. I would hope the last election proved him wrong on that account.
TV by a mile - other outle
December 30, 2006 - 21:52 ET by PabloHoneyTV by a mile - other outlets at least can be more quickly called on their BS. Average TV viewer is clueless (and networks "know" this) plus - what feedback mechanism is there for TV? Newbusters? Well sure, but........
Even the liberal press bows to the dollar
January 2, 2007 - 12:43 ET by whodatif only briefly! The MSM will periodically allow the truth to surface if failure to do so would result in the "story" losing steam.