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ORIGINAL: bounty44

Veteran WaPo Reporter Admits MSM’s Bias Is ‘Overwhelmingly Left'

Media bias is real, finds UCLA political scientist

Conservatives are right: The news media is very liberal

The Liberal Media Exposed - mrc.org

Shocker: Media Apparatchiks Overwhelmingly Vote Democrat

if you were anything other than a leftie, would you think the media was dealing with you objectively?

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News media bias is real. It reduces the quality of journalism, and it fosters distrust among readers and viewers. This is bad for democracy.

Many prevailing biases exist in the U.S. news media. All news outlets are biased toward an eye-catching narrative. The Washington news media is biased toward Washington-based solutions. And the political press in the U.S. has an overwhelming leftward tilt, mostly on social issues, but also on economic matters.

Conservatives aren’t imagining this bias. It’s evident in many ways, including personnel movement. For instance, Bill Keller, after years as a New York Times columnist taking largely liberal stands, became The Times' executive editor.

Studies consistently show that reporters and editors stand to the left of the American center. More than 30 former journalists now serve in the Obama administration — nothing comparable happens in G.O.P. administrations.

Clustering of left-of-center viewpoints in the newsroom leads to a cloistering, and thus reporters end up unfamiliar with conservative viewpoints. This shows up in the tone of daily coverage (for instance, “property rights” gets put in scare quotes, while “abortion rights” doesn’t). The problem has flared up this election year.

Republican debates are primarily for a Republican audience, yet the CNBC moderators' challenging of Ben Carson for his support of ethanol mandates may have been the only question from a clearly conservative perspective. Most questions challenged the candidates for not supporting more government spending, regulation, taxes and subsidies. The questions came with liberal premises, making them irrelevant to the conservative audience.

Conservatives are an alien species in many newsrooms. The resulting slanted (and occasionally hostile) coverage leaves conservatives rightly distrustful that the news media will cover them fairly. This breeds the perception that the mainstream media is out to get conservatives, and this perception has truly harmful consequences.

The most crucial role of our press is scrutinizing those in power and those who want power. Dr. Carson, Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and the others all deserve intense scrutiny of their policy proposals, their past and their stated beliefs. Dr. Carson has portrayed the recent news media scrutiny of him as a witch hunt, and (especially when some of it is unfair) conservative voters believe him. This enables him to dodge accountability.

Democracy needs a trustworthy news media. For conservatives to trust the news media, it needs to better understand conservatives.

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX
What a tool

When a D does it its' "criticizing" them

When an R does it it's "vilifying" them

Do you know what a tool you are

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

Why did the Nixon Obama administration spy on the Associated Press?

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Arnie Robbins, executive director of the American Society of News Editors, said, "On the face of it, this is really a disturbing affront to a free press. It's also troubling because it is consistent with perhaps the most aggressive administration ever against reporters doing their jobs — providing information that citizens need to know about our government."

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ORIGINAL: kdsub

I believe the media's point of view will on the whole will match the majority's point of view. This it must do to secure its viewership. Differing point of views will produce different results from the same facts. This is what is happening here and Trump will have to realize his point of view is in the minority of this country.

Butch

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

Probably because Trump kept screaming "Mexican rapists! Muslim refugee terrorists!"

That kind of thing could make some people see his remarks as racist.

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

FR

How dare anyone criticize the media

“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind”
― Jim Morrison

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
― Carl Sagan

“The media is the right arm of anarchy.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.”
― Jess C. Scott

“The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking.”
― Ray Bradbury

“It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous.”
― Brené Brown

"If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle."
― Hillary Clinton

"Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper."
― George Orwell

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers."
― Thomas Jefferson

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ORIGINAL: Milesnmiles
Another loopy alt lefter has come out against Trump's comments on the media saying this is what Dictators of the past have done and we need to learn from history.

Oh wait, John McCain is a right wing Republican.
;-)

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The sequel to that stupid mommy porn bondage movie is now in theaters, giving naughty thrills to bored housewives whose liberal husbands can’t cut it manwise, but the real festival of S&M was in the White House as President Trump unleashed his iron discipline on the media. Call it Fifty Shades of Orange.

It wasn’t a press conference – it was a kinky dungeon session where masochistic journalists eagerly sought out the delicious pain Master T was dealing. Hack after hack stepped up, tried to play “gotcha.” and ended up whimpering in the fetal position. The best part was CNN’s Jim Acosta, fresh from whining about how conservative outlets now get to ask questions too, basically handing Trump the cat-o-nine tails. Dude, next time keep from talking yourself into more public humiliation by biting down on the ball gag.

The media’s safe word is “Objectivity,” but none of them uttered it.

The wonderful thing about Trump – and the thing that sets the Fredocons and wusspublicans fussing – is that he gives exactly zero damns about the media’s inflated and ridiculous self-image. He doesn’t pay lip service to their lie that they are anything but what Instapundit calls “Democratic Party operatives with bylines.” Trump called them the “the enemy of the American People,” to which normals responded with “Yeah, sounds about right.”

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

"President Trump Has Been Far Too Nice To The Mainstream Media"

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The sequel to that stupid mommy porn bondage movie is now in theaters, giving naughty thrills to bored housewives whose liberal husbands can’t cut it manwise, but the real festival of S&M was in the White House as President Trump unleashed his iron discipline on the media. Call it Fifty Shades of Orange.

It wasn’t a press conference – it was a kinky dungeon session where masochistic journalists eagerly sought out the delicious pain Master T was dealing. Hack after hack stepped up, tried to play “gotcha.” and ended up whimpering in the fetal position. The best part was CNN’s Jim Acosta, fresh from whining about how conservative outlets now get to ask questions too, basically handing Trump the cat-o-nine tails. Dude, next time keep from talking yourself into more public humiliation by biting down on the ball gag.

The media’s safe word is “Objectivity,” but none of them uttered it.

The wonderful thing about Trump – and the thing that sets the Fredocons and wusspublicans fussing – is that he gives exactly zero damns about the media’s inflated and ridiculous self-image. He doesn’t pay lip service to their lie that they are anything but what Instapundit calls “Democratic Party operatives with bylines.” Trump called them the “the enemy of the American People,” to which normals responded with “Yeah, sounds about right.”

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2017/02/20/president-trump-has-been-far-too-nice-to-the-mainstream-media-n2287759