Why is the GOP-controlled media pushing the meme that ...

[ColbertWatcher]

... "America is a center-right continent country???"

[Deja Q]

1. Forgive me, but lefties say the media is right wing, and the righties say the media is left wing.

I see the media as one big-ass plucked chicken, extra crispy on the outside, and limp on the inside.

They tend to migrate to where the most sensationalizing articles are; those bring in the most viewers. Least Common Denominator fluff for the fickle and feeble.

[ColbertWatcher]

3. But, I didn't say the media was any wing.

I said it was controlled by the GOP, who, as Bill Moyers says, equates "liberalism" with "tough journalism,"

If reporting on what's happening to ordinary people thrown overboard by circumstances beyond their control and betrayed by Washington officials is liberalism, I stand convicted.

It is an old canard of right-wing ideologues like Tomlinson to equate tough journalism with liberalism. They hope to distract people from the message by trying to discredit the messenger.

--"Former Now host on media bias and his feud with former CPB Chairman Ken Tomlinson," Broadcasting & Cable

From that same article,

Bill Moyers became the central figure in absentia in the controversy surrounding former Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) Chairman Kenneth Tomlinson. It was Tomlinson who pointed to Moyers' Now newscast on PBS as a chief reason for his efforts to bring “balance” to public broadcasting by adding conservative shows.

For more about Tomlinson (for those who might not know, or have forgotten:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200506220009">Media Matters, The lies of Ken Tomlinson

and

http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/05/26/fulton_lewis_connection/">Salon, "Fair and balanced" -- the McCarthy way

As far as where the media migrates, I have to agree that the mass media (TV and national newspapers and magazines, like The US Today and The Time) do tend toward the sensational. But, not all media fall for that, like The Nation, Mother Jones and most everything on PBS.

[hendo]

5. I tend to agree with you

The media will report whatever gives them ratings.

[valerief]

2. They say "center-right."

Just paving the way for their return. Yes, you can't kill a zombie and those zombies will return after the Dems fix things.

[ColbertWatcher]

4. I fixed that, thank you. n/t

[spanone]

6. they don't control the country but they control the media

[leftofthedial]

7. because PE Obama seems to agree with them?

[SalmonChantedEvening]

8. Other: They are doing as they are told.

[fla nocount]

9. They're looking at congressional voting records...

and projecting that those wankers really represent America and the will of the People.

[bananas]

10. What they mean by "center right" isn't necessarily what other people mean by "center right"

"While Cynthia McKinney and Ralph Nader are depicted on the extreme left in an American context, they would simply be mainstream social democrats within the wider political landscape of Europe. Similarly, Obama is popularly perceived as a leftist in the United States while elsewhere in the west his record is that of a moderate conservative."
http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2008

[DainBramaged]

11. Don't get me started....

I did a thread of this yesterday and out of the blue comes this member with charts and maps and graphs showing we are a right of center country. Bullshit and propaganda from within our house.

:hi: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7841034

[leeroysphitz]

12. Jesus was way cool. Everybody liked Jesus. Everybody wanted to hang out with him. n/t

[fla nocount]

14. Ya know, that went over just about everyone's head...

gotcha. "Change? Silly rabbit, it's not for hood-winked suckers."

[leeroysphitz]

15. LOL. Who's head? n/t

[kevinbgoode]

13. Someone needs to ask the media why they are obsessed

with the philosophies of a small, rural-based, regional political party which has, by it's own behavior, reduced itself to a collection of Moonies, Mormons, televangelista dominionists, and would-be world conqueror neo-cons.

The only people who identify with the Right are those whose lives are guided by fear and easily molded by deception.

[leeroysphitz]

16. Wrong!

"The only people who identify with the Right are those whose lives are guided by fear and easily molded by deception."

Your statement is only true for those that make less than $90,000 a year! For everybody else it's just plain, shameless greed.