Is The Media Truly Liberal?

To answer my own question….Not from where I sit….the MSM is anything but liberal.

But like I said….that is just my take on the question.

But let’s look a little deeper.

Conservative commentators and politicians attack the reliability of the “media” since they believe the liberals control it. They often point to television and some social media like Facebook. Except for the New York Times and Washington Post, they have avoided attacking other printed media and radio.

While the liberals do not dismiss all media as being too conservative, they argue that big corporations’ concentration of media ownership limits the breadth of opinion and promotes conservative views, such as promoting a smaller federal government.

Liberals don’t campaign for big government. Still, they support government intervention in regulating the marketplace and social behavior. The first is for maintaining a fair marketplace, and the latter protects citizens from being denied exercising their constitutional rights. Those efforts result in a larger central government, which big businesses usually oppose.

Support for smaller government was measured during and after President George H.W. Bush’s term. Gallup polling since 1992 asked respondents to respond to: “The Government should do more to solve our country’s problems.” And “The government is trying to do too many things that should be left to individuals and businesses.”

Only twice in the 29 years from ’92 to ’21 has the response reached 50 percent or higher that the government “Should do more.” Meanwhile, in 24 of those years, half or more responded that the government “was doing too much.”

Media significantly shapes cultural values and promotes politics that help determine how the public perceives the government’s usefulness. Since conservative commentaries and Republican politicians champion small government as a core talking point, tracking their appearance and support in the media indicates how much their message may influence public opinion.

Is the Media Really Liberal?

The whole ‘liberal media’ is just the conservs trying to blame someone for their own failings.

Smaller government is just nothing but smoke….always has been and will always be….just smoke.

So I ask again….is the media truly liberal?

Let me have your opinion on this massive mound of manure.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

2010 Anal-Ocity #6

Anal Statements on the Right…anal statements on the Left……anal statements everywhere…..what would the Info Ink’s Anal-Ocity Awards be without Sarah Palin?  She has another one in the running….

Recently Ms Palin was a guest on Jay Leno’s new show and she said these immortal words:

I studied journalism, my college degree there in communications. And now I am back there wanting to build some trust back in our media. I think the mainstream media is quite broken and I think there needs to be the fairness, the balance in there — that’s why I joined Fox. Fair and balanced, yes. You know because, Jay, those years a go that I studied journalism it was all about the who, what, when, where, and why, it was not so much the opinion interjected in hard news stories. … As long as there is not the opinion under the guise of hard news stories — I think there needs to be clear differentiation.

God I love this stuff!  Apparently all news organizations are editorialized except for Fox……..(long silence)…..please give me a moment to collect myself……Are you sh*tting me?

But I do not see where the media is editorializing….maybe some of the cable guys….of which FOX News is a member…..If a person has his/her name attached to the show, then it ALL is editorializing…..but to say that ALL other news groups are wrong in their reporting is just insanity…..and “fair and balanced” label attached to FOX is even more insane…..