Media Cheerleading
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- dog_opus
Anybody see this yesterday? I caught it on O'Reilly.
I understand that O'Reilly makes smoke shoot out of the ears of a bunch of you guys, but try to put that aside for a minute. Isn't this outrageous? What if Fox News had a breaking news banner for Obama's VP announcement reading "Will Biden bring knowledge that there are only 50 states to Democratic ticket?"
- ukit0
I think MSNBC is moving in a more liberal direction...especially now that they are giving Rachel Maddow her own show. But Fox went there first.
It's not necessarily good or bad, it's just the way the media evolved.
- dog_opus0
Fox went where first? And, no, ukit, this is definitely not good! Analysis and commentary programs are fine for this sort of bias, but this is hard news coverage. Hard news needs to be objective, period.
- MSN, FOX...these are not hard news organizations. These are news entertainmentmarychain
- ukit0
Fox went first in the direction of mixing opinion and news, and deliberately cheerleading for one side as you are saying.
- ukit0
(Cleverly covered up by their slogan "fair and balanced");)
- dog_opus0
Fox has never pulled anything like this in their hard news coverage. I'd like to see it, if it's happened. It's unacceptable anywhere.
Again: big difference between opinion shows (Hannity & Colmes, Olbermann, etc.), and breaking/straight news coverage.
- ukit0
Well...this is probably the most egregious (and ridiculous) example I have seen.
http://mediamatters.org/items/20…
But believe me, you don't want to ask, there is plenty out there:)
- dog_opus0
Yeah, but that was clearly a joke ON AN OPINION SHOW. That's the key, ukit. I don't think you're grasping my point. (sorry about the caps, by the way – no italics)
- acescence0
msnbc is a joke anyway. all mainstream media are mouthpieces for their corporate overlords. the news comes from the top down. they all clearly show bias, not necessarily in what they say, but what they choose to report.
- ukit0
OK, here's another example.
Fox News just did a news segment on the Republican-backed initiative in California to apportion the state's electoral votes according to who carries the individual House districts — which if passed would effectively give 20 free electoral votes to the Republicans, from straight out of the Dem column.
Fox's take is hilariously biased, even by the network's practically nonexistent ethical standards. The person brought on to speak in favor of it is described only as "pro-reform"...
...while the person who spoke against was described only as:
We are never told anything more about who these men are, who they work for, or what their partisan activities might be — all we're told is that the guy for this initiative is "pro-reform" and the man opposed to it is "anti-reform."
As it turns out, "pro-reform" Kevin Eckery is a Republican consultant and the spokesman for Californians for Equal Representation, the astro-turf group offering the initiative. And "anti-reform" Ari Swiller is a Democratic fundraiser.
- You really think someone took the time to Photoshop something like this? LOLukit
- ukit0
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- dog_opus0
I give up, ukit – You're not getting my point at all.
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- TheBlueOne0
The Romney and Pawlenty camps are really pissed off over the Palin pick.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com…
I wonder - "will CNN, MSNBC or FOX spend hours of talking points about how the Republicans can't "come together" at their convention like they spent over and over again about the Hillary deal? I kinda doubt it. Odd though.