and certain sicko's ad hominem attacks against liberals
This is a repost, because I deleted my previous article. Apparently there is a bug in the featured articles that allows sickos like mod and dr to pollute others posts. Sorry that I also deleted all the replies, but such if life.
(Please, draginol, do not feature any of my artilces until that bug is fixed. Thank you in advance.)
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Much to my surprise, and for reasons I just don't understand, I was able to post to moderateman's blog. I was reponding to his hyperbolic vitriol about liberal media bias, yet another anti-liberal bash, which is bullshit. But, he just kept on deleting my messages (hehehehehe........) because facts just get in the way of his bashing bullshit. So, I post here exactly what I had posted in his ranting blog, in its entirely, and unchanged.
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Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) has on its website a report conducted by the Virginia Commonwealth University .Link which evaluates the myth of liberal media bias that is so often advanced by conservatives. In that report, which is based on survey results that included most of the mainstream media outlets, they have found that the media is predominantly conservative, with only environmental issues being of a more left leaning ilk. The intro of the report states:
"But even some progressives have been willing to cede to conservatives the first point: that journalists' views are to the left of the public. Professionals in general, they observe, often have "liberal" leanings on social issues and there is no reason to expect journalists to be any different. However, they have also argued convincingly that the norms of "objective journalism" and the powerful corporate interests which own and sponsor the news media ensure that news content never strays too far, for too long, from protecting the status quo. You don't understand the corporate ideology of General Motors by studying the personal beliefs of the assembly-line workers, the argument goes. Ideological orientation is introduced and enforced by those high in the organizational hierarchy who have the power to hire and fire, to reward and punish. Working journalists, despite their sometimes high visibility, usually do not call the shots in the nation's media corporations. (The documentary "Fear and Favor in the Newsroom" provides vivid illustrations of this situation.) Consequently, the private views of individual journalists often matter little."
In the report's conclusion, it goes on to state:
"This survey shows that it is a mistake to accept the conservative claim that journalists are to the left of the public. There appear to be very few national journalists with left views on economic questions like corporate power and trade—issues that may well matter more to media owners and advertisers than social issues like gay rights and affirmative action.
The larger "liberal media" myth has been maintained, in part, by the well-funded flow of conservative rhetoric that selectively highlights journalists' personal views while downplaying news content. It also has been maintained by diverting the spotlight away from economic issues and placing it instead on social issues. In reality, though, most members of the powerful Washington press corps identify themselves as centrist in both of these areas."
In other words, check the source of your reports. If a conservative leaning individual, even if he claims "moderation" whines about liberal media bias, take it with a grain of salt. Particularly if no links are posted. And, particularly if it is in inself whining bullcrap.
In other words, the media is not liberal biased. It's a myth perpetrated by righties to hammer their own agendas and propaganda.
In other words, this is a prime example of ad hominem attacks perpetrated by conservatives, because they have nothing else to base their arguments upon (added here).