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rulemylife -> RE: Why Most Journalist are Democrats (8/6/2009 8:46:15 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Arpig
What is there to debate? You yourself admit that the journalists bias often comes through. Now, from experience alone, I would say that most serious journalists seem to be left leaning, therefore whatever bias creeps in will tend to be a leftward bias. Thus there really is nothing to debate, to claim that there is no left bias in the media is simply to argue against the obvious. Now do not read into this that I am in anyway outraged by this bias, in fact being generally a lefty myself, I tend to approve of it and the stances taken by the majority of the media outlets.
Except you left out the main point of what I said.
While everyone has their views and biases there is a code of journalistic ethics that any reporter or commentator with a sense of integrity tries to adhere to.
I keep hearing about this liberal bias but I never see any concrete examples.
Any to offer?
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I nowhere said that Fox was any sort of a counter-balance to anything, what I said was the management saw a basically untapped market share, that of the right wing, religious/conservative groups who were not being given their spin on the major networks, so they set out to do just that, to give the right its own major network news outlet. And yes, the bias is blatant, and unappologetically so, that is the whole idea.
Which is fine, if it were a genuine news network with somewhat of a conservative view. But what I see is an absolute sham.
The other night Hannity had a three person panel discussing Clinton and the freed hostages. Two of the three were trying to make the case that there was a hidden agenda and Clinton and Obama gave concessions to North Korea. Hannity, instead of even pretending to be an impartial moderator in the discussion, constantly shouted down the third person who tried to put the focus on the two reporters who were freed.
I saw another segment on Fox where one of the anchors was interviewing an author who wrote a book on the current economic crisis touting conservative economic policy. Unfortunately, it didn't work out as planned.
The author refused to say that Bush's policies were not to blame as the interviewer constantly kept probing for the answer he wanted and grew almost comically frustrated when the author held his position.
Let's face it, Fox is just a propaganda mouthpiece created by Ruoert Murdoch to advance conservative Republican policy and attack anything and anyone Democratic.
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A little bit of both actually. But all the networks are guilty of this "speculation disguised as commentary" sort of programming. It is used to fill time on the 24 hour news feeds...unfortunatly it is very expensive to actually send reporters around the world to investigate unknown stories, it is much cheaper to bring in an "expert" to give his opinion on a story that has already been broken, often they end up discussing the media coverage of a story as if it were the story itself. This goes for all the networks, not just Fox.
No, it's not the same.
Spend a portion of a day watching Fox and you will see how little of their entire programming is hard news.
Even when they do present the news, more often than not they blend commentary and bring in experts to give it the desired conservative spin.
Just as I said with Clinton and North Korea. The fact two reporters who were facing more than a decade in a North Korean prison were freed was all but ignored.
The whole focus was how to attack the Democratic former President who helped free them and how the story could be spun into a negative for the current administration.
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