there is no liberal media

[kingcody64]

I wonder why the so called liberal media isnt reporting on the republician voting fraud. why hasnt the media expkained what acorn has to do. they have to by law turn in regictration forms they call the number on the forms and they make 3 piles legit not sure and suspicious.why did top 5 media contributors contributed to the republician party. i gurantee that if you ask a lot of people who keith olbeerman was not very many people would be able to tell you he is , but if you ask who bill oreilly was a lot of people would tell you who he is.

[Rageneau]

1. And there never HAS been!

The national media has always, always, always been a tool of the conservative establishment. The media have always been union-busters, war-mongers, apologists for corporate abuses and protectors of the status quo. The only reason the term 'liberal media' exists is to provide a way for the conservative oligarchy to discount the truth on the reare occasions when it is actually reported.

[kwolf68]

2. Not really

I think the media in this nation at one time did a noble job serving the public and both parties were given fair representation.

The media has become a right-wing apparatus since major corporations have begun bying up media outlets, consolidation has taken place, and cross ownership has been allowed. IT IS THAT dynamic that has given us a propaganda ministry.

[ElboRuum]

4. Is "fair representation" specifically "liberal"?

I would think not. Hence have we EVER had what might be termed a liberal media then? We had a FAIR one once, but never one with a specifically liberal bias.

[WCGreen]

6. Well, to the corpotate elite, fair is liberal....

[Rageneau]

5. Nope. And what happened to Ed Murrow, among many other examples, proves that...

media manipulation by conservatives in television has been going on since the very get-go. And anyone who knows about the LA Times' union-busting activities (including murder) in the teens and twenties understands that the major print media, such as TIME, Inc., have long been on the side of the fascists.

Even Nixon was protected by the press for as long as they could cover for him. It was only Bob Woodward (but check out his pre-reportorial backgound) and Bernstein who bucked the trend, for reasons still largely unknown. Had it been up to every media outlet except the now-fascist Washington Post, Nixon would have easily survived Watergate, just as Reagan easily survived Iran-Contra and Bush I and 2 have easily survived scandals and malfeasance that would have impeached, convicted and removed any Democrat.

The press hated FDR, Truman, (although it envied JFK and feared LBJ) Carter, Dukakis, both Clintons, Gore, Kerry, and every single other Democrat who rises to prominence. Meanwhile, one cannot be too mean-spirited a right-winger to not get one's own radio or television program or magazine or newspaper column.

And it was ever thus. It's just that there was a brief time, after Watergate, when people, even liberals, THOUGHT (hoped) that the media was doing a responsible job. But that brief period was the exception, not the rule, and the conservatives vowed to never allow a repeat of it. It was THEN they began trying to silence all 'bad' news by buying all the media outlets, a feat that now a fait accompli.

[ElboRuum]

3. In other news.

Two plus two found to be equal to four.

The sky is confirmed to be blue.

Newtonian gravity described as "having merit" when Sadie Pickering of Hannibal, MO reportedly accidentally let go of a pie she'd just baked and it fell to the floor, much in line with the predictions made by Newton's original calculations. She was later quoted as saying "Newton owes me one apple pie and a few hours of my life back!!"

Yes, we have no liberal media. We haven't really EVER had a liberal media. We HAVE had a conservative media since the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine by good 'ol Saint Ronnie of Reagan, and the loosening of marketwide media ownership rules. I know Bill Clinton had something to do with this, but I forget if it was his doing or whether he was essentially getting pressured by the Republican congressional majority at the time.