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"There is no liberal media" says a liberal. However, Liberals dominate the media.


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2019 Jul 25, 9:04pm   1,953 views  17 comments

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(title is mine)

https://www.aim.org/aim-column/senator-from-hawaii-there-is-no-liberal-media/

Mission Accomplished for Accuracy in Media: Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) says there is no such thing as liberal media bias.

“There is no liberal media,” Schatz tweeted after 10 p.m., on the night of the Robert Mueller hearings before two House committees.

Within 12 hours, Schatz tweet had nearly 1,000 retweets and more than 8,000 likes. His supporters came out of the woodwork. A woman who calls herself Femme Flawless and whose Twitter bio says she is “Waiting for the great queer awakening. Anti-Fascist. Pro-Human Rights. Designer,” tweeted a graphic from Media Matters for America, a far-left media analysis outfit, entitled “Ideological tilt of panels on Sunday shows.”

The graphic placed “This Week” in the “tilted left” category with 60 percent of its content leaning left and declared “Meet the Press” left-leaning 15 percent of the time and “balanced” 85 percent of the time. Others shot down this argument because of its source.

But others who have looked at media bias have found the senator is not correct. More than 90 percent of the content that has mentioned President Trump since he announced in 2015 he was running for the White House has been negative.

Even among the business press, which had been thought to be conservative, nearly 60 percent of journalists self-identify as “very” or “somewhat” liberal. Another 37 percent claim to be “moderate,” but less than 5 percent identify as “somewhat” or “very” conservative.

Attempts to calculate how much of the media is biased themselves are hurt by bias. In one chart produced by researchers at the University of Michigan, news organizations were placed along a continuum of bias – ranging from -10 for the farthest left to 10 for the farthest right.

On the conservative side, it places Yahoo News and Wall Street Journal just to left side of zero. It places Fox News at the +2 mark, Drudge just beyond the +4 level and Breitbart, the Rush Limbaugh Show, The Blaze, the Sean Hannity Show and Glenn Beck’s program all in a cluster near the +6 mark.

On the left side, CBS News, Google News, Bloomberg, ABC News, USA Today, NBC News, CNN and MSNBC are all placed between 0 and -3. The Daily Show, The Guardian, Al Jazeera America, NPR, the Colbert Report, and the New York Times are all in the -4 to -5 area, and only New Yorker and Slate are to the left of those groups.

In 2016, the Washington Times reported on a study by veteran media researcher Robert Licther that found 81 percent to 94 percent of the nation’s journalists voted Democrat in presidential elections and only 7 percent reported being Republicans.

The Washington Post has felt the need to deny liberal bias on numerous occasions. In “What conservative critics get right – and wrong – about the media,” Kevin Learner argued that it was wrong for the press to present itself as objective or for consumers of media to even judge them on that rubric.

“The New York Times and The Washington Post are not liberal equivalents of Fox News,” he wrote. “They are not partisan news outlets, nor in the employ of the Democratic Party.

“Yet many of the reporters do share a worldview. Most have university educations. Most live in large metropolitan areas on the East Coast, where they ride public transportation with people who aren’t like them, where there are large minority populations and LGBTQ neighborhoods and restaurants serving Ethiopian food or regional Chinese – which they can probably get delivered to their apartments at midnight, when they’re still working on a story.

“In short, the best journalists in the United States are in many ways more elite and more cosmopolitan than the American public in general. That, in and of itself, is not a bad thing. Smart people who are aware of different kinds of life experiences make the best journalists. But that does mean that they have a particular way of seeing the world. And they would be much less susceptible to attacks from the Mark Levins of the world if they abandoned the pose of objectivity that opens them to those attacks.”

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1   Ceffer   2019 Jul 25, 11:19pm  

How precious. Journalistic Gaslighting gaslighting Gaslighting Journalism. A lovely Möbius Strip of self exoneration.
3   HeadSet   2019 Jul 26, 6:15am  

On the conservative side, it places Yahoo News and Wall Street Journal just to left side of zero. It places Fox News at the +2 mark, Drudge just beyond the +4 level and Breitbart, the Rush Limbaugh Show, The Blaze, the Sean Hannity Show and Glenn Beck’s program all in a cluster near the +6 mark.

On the left side, CBS News, Google News, Bloomberg, ABC News, USA Today, NBC News, CNN and MSNBC are all placed between 0 and -3. The Daily Show, The Guardian, Al Jazeera America, NPR, the Colbert Report, and the New York Times are all in the -4 to -5 area, and only New Yorker and Slate are to the left of those groups.


Notice how these clowns cannot distinguish between news and opinion. Network news and major newspapers are supposed to be objective (although not the case). Rush, Hannity, Colbert, Beck, and Daily Show are not "news" but editorials with an entertainment slant. To infer that left wing news bias in New York Times and ABC News is offset by right wing bias in Rush and Hannity is disingenuous.
4   HeadSet   2019 Jul 26, 6:17am  

“Yet many of the reporters do share a worldview. Most have university educations.

Yes, these journalism majors too stupid for STEM think very highly of themselves.
6   Expat01   2019 Aug 24, 10:47am  

antiforum
8   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2019 Sep 9, 11:39pm  

Reagan got his ass handed to him by the media. I mean the media sucked Mondale’s cock and begged for more. Seems the press HATES effective Republican presidents with Reagan and Trump being by far the most effective Presidents in my lifetime.

https://cmpa.gmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2004-4.pdf
11   Bd6r   2019 Oct 20, 7:00am  

Factcheck: WRONG. Two newspapers (obviously, Russian) endorsed Trump and 57 Hillary. This is why Hillary lost.
Among the top 100 largest newspapers in America, just two — the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville — endorsed Trump. The Review-Journal is owned by Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate who has spent millions trying to elect Trump.
https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/304606-final-newspaper-endorsement-count-clinton-57-trump-2

Booger says
12   komputodo   2019 Oct 20, 8:07am  

6rdB says
Factcheck: WRONG. Two newspapers (obviously, Russian) endorsed Trump

Errrr. I think you are wrong...You forgot to mention the Trump University bi-weekly newsletter. So that would be 3...that evens it up a bit.
13   Onvacation   2019 Oct 20, 8:15am  

Booger says

The real question is, "considering that virtually all the media is against Trump, why is he still so popular?"

The Internet might still save the world from the powers that be lying to us constantly.
14   Tenpoundbass   2019 Oct 20, 8:29am  

Liberals believe this lie because they lack Sophistication, and are gullible and stupid.
They have the personality of stepped on fruit on a dirty kitchen floor, and the attention span of Al dente pasta.

We're not dealing with politically savvy nor politically honest people here.
15   komputodo   2019 Oct 20, 11:08am  

Onvacation says
The real question is, "considering that virtually all the media is against Trump, why is he still so popular?"

The same people that like TRUMP, also ignore the fake media and the fake polls. And its a LOT of people...

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