RE: Last presidential deabte, was there a winner?
October 23, 2012 at 11:16 pm
(This post was last modified: October 23, 2012 at 11:16 pm by cratehorus.)
(October 23, 2012 at 9:30 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Either way you'd have a fourth consecutive term of Bush policies.
Also, I agree with Tino; media bias exists in pretty much any media company. That isn't to say that all media companies lean one particular way all the time (even Fox News had/has liberal and libertarian commentators), but speaking generally, there is an obvious lean most of the time.
From an outsider's perspective (i.e. I only catch glimpses of American TV), Fox News is clearly more right-wing, whilst MSNBC is more left-wing (Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow spring to mind). The others are somewhat centrist, but often lean left. I'd say MSNBC is as far left a "mainstream" broadcaster gets.
Not that there is anything necessarily wrong with bias; as long as you are open about it. Fox News does this to some degree, but very tacitly (Google "fox news admits bias" and you get plenty of links). Likewise, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow as far as I am aware do not hide the fact that their shows are biased towards the left. Most people have an agenda, and if you have a particular audience you want to market yourself towards, go for it. At the end of the day, the consumer chooses the product.
WHY? Two NBC pundits who constantly talk about right wing talking points, are not left wing and their certainly not as extremist as the entire rupert murdoch empire. We have nothing but right wing media and a series of hyper extremist fascist news groups. What's makes maddow and olberman left wing? Is it because they tell the truth and don't spread wild conspiracies? If that's a "left wing bias" than why aren't you left wing?
