14% of Economist Say Trump Would Be The Best For The Economy

[daws101]

RealClearPolitics - 2016 Latest 2016 Presidential General Election Polls

 

[daws101]

In the battle of the unloved presidential candidates, Democrat Hillary Clinton tops the magical 50 percent mark among American likely voters, leading Republican Donald Trump 51 - 41 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University National poll released today. [...]

"We are starting to hear the faint rumblings of a Hillary Clinton landslide as her 10-point lead is further proof that Donald Trump is in a downward spiral as the clock ticks," said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.

 

[Al Azar]

He's not crying. He's got his mind on a new right-wing media empire. His use for this campaign is limited to how much notoriety he can wring out of it before he launches his new for-profit adventure.

Hillary will win this election and Donald not only knows it, he's counting on it.

 

[Star]

Let me put it this way...I was far more liberal after four years at UMass then I was when I started. What ended up making me a conservative was the real world. Once you're out in it for awhile you come to realize that college professor who sounded like they were such an authority...had little or no real world experience and was speaking about "theory". "Theory" is what Larry Summers and Christina Romer brought to the White House and the failure of "theory" is what had them both packing their bags and running back to their college jobs.

That's what undergraduate studies are supposed to do. They expose you to ideas that you might not ever have had on your own, on all sorts of subjects you might not have thought you were interested in.

How you feel about things, all things, is based on your own life experience. That doesn't mean that you were too sheltered as a youth nor that those who taught you had an agenda. It means you can't be taught everything in a classroom that you need to know to function effectively in real life.

You came to your own conclusions based on fundamentals you learned in school regardless of any spin you think was used. Great. The system works.

Frankly, anyone who is as influenced by a teacher or a group of teachers as you seem to think most economists are isn't being brainwashed. It sounds more like a student crush. I don't think that is representative of the people who call themselves economists. They do what you and I and everyone I know did - learn what we could in school the easy way and learn what's really important afterwards, the hard way.

So how is getting only one side of a political argument "exposing" students to ideas? It's not! It's programming them to believe what they are being told.

So my learning in the real world that most of my college professors didn't have a clue what they were talking about means that the "system works"? That's an amusing concept. I had to UNLEARN what I spent a lot of money learning in the first place! The system would "work" if I was given an unbiased look at different arguments and allowed to make a decision about what seemed to be the best theory! That isn't what's taking place on college campuses these days.

I can't dispute your personal academic experience your personal experiences are yours and yours alone, but it sure doesn't square with my well rounded college experience - maybe you should have chosen more diversity in your class selections...?

But-----but well rounded would put you at odds with rightwing guru Frank Luntz's meme that bettering yourself via education is the reason the GOP sucks in the minds of the majority of millennials.


'Lost' Generation

July 25, 2016
By Colleen Flaherty

Is an entire generation of voters “lost” to the Grand Old Party, and is academe at fault? That’s what conservative pollster and pundit Frank Luntz told a roomful of delegates at the Republican National Convention last week.

Yet academics who study the issue disagree.

“Luntz doesn’t have his facts straight,” said Neil Gross, Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology at Colby College, who has studied politics and the professoriate. “Young Americans are leaning to the left these days, but it has very little to do with what they’re being taught by college professors.”

Speaking to a group of South Carolina delegates at a breakfast meeting in Cleveland, Luntz declared his No. 1 priority to be “what happens at universities,” The Hill reported.

“Capitol Hill matters, yes, politics matter, but a whole generation is being taught by professors who voted for Bernie Sanders,” Luntz said. “That’s a problem that begs for a solution.”

Recycling the notion that college and university campuses are fertile recruiting grounds for an army of liberal academics, Luntz declared millennials “lost” to his party.

“It's not like we are losing -- we have lost that generation,” he said.

As proof, Luntz offered the following data point: that 58 percent of millennials -- in his words -- “say socialism is the better form of economics.” That, he said, “is the damage of academia.”

Luntz presumably was referring to a 2015 poll by Reason-Rupe, which found that 58 percent of college-age Americans have a positive view of socialism, compared to 56 percent for capitalism.

The finding apparently jarred the GOP audience. “We are screwed,” one delegate said aloud, according to The Hill.

But other data don’t support Luntz’s argument.

<more>

Is your mind just c&ping Frank Luntz's Republican talking points?

.

 

[Oldstyle]

Let me put it this way...I was far more liberal after four years at UMass then I was when I started. What ended up making me a conservative was the real world. Once you're out in it for awhile you come to realize that college professor who sounded like they were such an authority...had little or no real world experience and was speaking about "theory". "Theory" is what Larry Summers and Christina Romer brought to the White House and the failure of "theory" is what had them both packing their bags and running back to their college jobs.

That's what undergraduate studies are supposed to do. They expose you to ideas that you might not ever have had on your own, on all sorts of subjects you might not have thought you were interested in.

How you feel about things, all things, is based on your own life experience. That doesn't mean that you were too sheltered as a youth nor that those who taught you had an agenda. It means you can't be taught everything in a classroom that you need to know to function effectively in real life.

You came to your own conclusions based on fundamentals you learned in school regardless of any spin you think was used. Great. The system works.

Frankly, anyone who is as influenced by a teacher or a group of teachers as you seem to think most economists are isn't being brainwashed. It sounds more like a student crush. I don't think that is representative of the people who call themselves economists. They do what you and I and everyone I know did - learn what we could in school the easy way and learn what's really important afterwards, the hard way.

So how is getting only one side of a political argument "exposing" students to ideas? It's not! It's programming them to believe what they are being told.

So my learning in the real world that most of my college professors didn't have a clue what they were talking about means that the "system works"? That's an amusing concept. I had to UNLEARN what I spent a lot of money learning in the first place! The system would "work" if I was given an unbiased look at different arguments and allowed to make a decision about what seemed to be the best theory! That isn't what's taking place on college campuses these days.

I can't dispute your personal academic experience your personal experiences are yours and yours alone, but it sure doesn't square with my well rounded college experience - maybe you should have chosen more diversity in your class selections...?

But-----but well rounded would put you at odds with rightwing guru Frank Luntz's meme that bettering yourself via education is the reason the GOP sucks in the minds of the majority of millennials.


'Lost' Generation

July 25, 2016
By Colleen Flaherty

Is an entire generation of voters “lost” to the Grand Old Party, and is academe at fault? That’s what conservative pollster and pundit Frank Luntz told a roomful of delegates at the Republican National Convention last week.

Yet academics who study the issue disagree.

“Luntz doesn’t have his facts straight,” said Neil Gross, Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology at Colby College, who has studied politics and the professoriate. “Young Americans are leaning to the left these days, but it has very little to do with what they’re being taught by college professors.”

Speaking to a group of South Carolina delegates at a breakfast meeting in Cleveland, Luntz declared his No. 1 priority to be “what happens at universities,” The Hill reported.

“Capitol Hill matters, yes, politics matter, but a whole generation is being taught by professors who voted for Bernie Sanders,” Luntz said. “That’s a problem that begs for a solution.”

Recycling the notion that college and university campuses are fertile recruiting grounds for an army of liberal academics, Luntz declared millennials “lost” to his party.

“It's not like we are losing -- we have lost that generation,” he said.

As proof, Luntz offered the following data point: that 58 percent of millennials -- in his words -- “say socialism is the better form of economics.” That, he said, “is the damage of academia.”

Luntz presumably was referring to a 2015 poll by Reason-Rupe, which found that 58 percent of college-age Americans have a positive view of socialism, compared to 56 percent for capitalism.

The finding apparently jarred the GOP audience. “We are screwed,” one delegate said aloud, according to The Hill.

But other data don’t support Luntz’s argument.

<more>

Is your mind just c&ping Frank Luntz's Republican talking points?

.

The reason that I took an economics class at Amherst College (through the 5 Colleges Program) was that I didn't feel like I was getting "diversity" at UMass. The class I took there with Thomas Sowell was one of the best classes I took in college.

I'm curious...you quote Neil Gross as saying young Americans are leaning left these days but claiming it has little to do with what they're being taught by college professors? Gross makes that statement and then backs it up with what? Is he saying that college professors aren't predominantly liberal today? Is he claiming that they are...but that doesn't affect the students they teach? Is he claiming that young Americans are being pulled to the left by other things...like an overwhelmingly liberal mainstream media...television programs like Saturday Night Live and the Daley Show which mix comedy with liberal bias...or a public school system that is also heavily populated by liberal teachers?

Let's be honest here, Star...young people are bombarded with liberal philosophy from pre-school right up until they leave college. Lutz is spot on in his views.

 

[Al Azar]

I'm curious...you quote Neil Gross as saying young Americans are leaning left these days but claiming it has little to do with what they're being taught by college professors? Gross makes that statement and then backs it up with what? Is he saying that college professors aren't predominantly liberal today? Is he claiming that they are...but that doesn't affect the students they teach? Is he claiming that young Americans are being pulled to the left by other things...like an overwhelmingly liberal mainstream media...television programs like Saturday Night Live and the Daley Show which mix comedy with liberal bias...or a public school system that is also heavily populated by liberal teachers?

Let's be honest here, Star...young people are bombarded with liberal philosophy from pre-school right up until they leave college. Lutz is spot on in his views.

Supposing your opinion is sound. Our young are getting primarily a liberal message as they mature. I think you're going to have to accept it because of the nature of education.

Teaching is a service profession, a public service. People drawn to serving others tend to be more liberal than those who would rather be served. If you think our young people need a more balanced environment you're going to have to attract more conservatives into teaching and that's not going to be easy. Conservatives, as a group, are more interested in earning than learning.

If education leans liberal, it's because people who choose to be of service to others are more likely to be liberal. How do you get around that?

 

[OldLady]

I find it interesting that when 85% of the economists find a policy won't work, Trumpsters immediately hide their heads in a hole and start blaming education. Or MSM. Or the sneaky Democrats.
LOL
You people deserve Trump. You are apparently that stupid.

 

[bripat9643]

I'm curious...you quote Neil Gross as saying young Americans are leaning left these days but claiming it has little to do with what they're being taught by college professors? Gross makes that statement and then backs it up with what? Is he saying that college professors aren't predominantly liberal today? Is he claiming that they are...but that doesn't affect the students they teach? Is he claiming that young Americans are being pulled to the left by other things...like an overwhelmingly liberal mainstream media...television programs like Saturday Night Live and the Daley Show which mix comedy with liberal bias...or a public school system that is also heavily populated by liberal teachers?

Let's be honest here, Star...young people are bombarded with liberal philosophy from pre-school right up until they leave college. Lutz is spot on in his views.

Supposing your opinion is sound. Our young are getting primarily a liberal message as they mature. I think you're going to have to accept it because of the nature of education.

Teaching is a service profession, a public service. People drawn to serving others tend to be more liberal than those who would rather be served. If you think our young people need a more balanced environment you're going to have to attract more conservatives into teaching and that's not going to be easy. Conservatives, as a group, are more interested in earning than learning.

If education leans liberal, it's because people who choose to be of service to others are more likely to be liberal. How do you get around that?

Teaching is a government occupation, and people who work for government tend to believe in big government. That's the reason government needs to be separated from the business of education.

 

[bripat9643]

He's not crying. He's got his mind on a new right-wing media empire. His use for this campaign is limited to how much notoriety he can wring out of it before he launches his new for-profit adventure.

Hillary will win this election and Donald not only knows it, he's counting on it.

Your ability to read minds has yet to be demonstrated.

 

[SmokeALib]

Thread is irrelevant.
Any organization with the word "National" in the title are paid in full from US taxpayers, ie, the government.

 

[Norman]

Thread is irrelevant.
Any organization with the word "National" in the title are paid in full from US taxpayers, ie, the government.

Clinton promises them their jobs with lucrative benefits, they promise Hillary some nice ratings.

Meanwhile the Clintons construct the most massive bubble in human history, crashing the global economy. The "economists" don't care as they get paid regardless.

This is how it works (and has worked) folks.

 

[Al Azar]

Thread is irrelevant.
Any organization with the word "National" in the title are paid in full from US taxpayers, ie, the government.

Hope not.

National Abstinence Education Association
National Association of Evangelicals
National Black Pro-Life Union
National Black ProLife Coalition
National Black Republican Association
National Clergy Council
National Council for a New America
National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools
National Day of Prayer Task Force
National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference
National Organization for Marriage
National Prayer Network
National Pro-Life Action Center
National Pro-Life Religious Council
National Religious Broadcasters
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Review
National Right to Life Committee
National Taxpayers Union
National Association of Christian Educators
College Republican National Committee
National Council of Churches
National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality
National Committee of Catholic Laymen
National Black Foot Soldier Network
Southern National Congress

 

[oreo]

"A policy survey of National Association for Business Economics (NABE) members released Monday shows that 55% of business economists feel that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would do the best job as president of managing the U.S. economy. The candidate with the next-largest percentage of the vote was Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson: 15% of NABE members said he’d do the best job managing the economy. Another 15% or respondents said they didn’t know who would be best or that they didn’t have an opinion.
Just 14% chose Donald Trump.
The survey results are remarkable because NABE members aren’t your average ivory tower-dwelling, left-leaning egg heads. They work for businesses, trade associations and government agencies across the country. As NABE director and survey chair LaVaughn Henry put it, these are people who have skin in the game.
“You’re speaking of people who advise business leaders on day-to-day and long term issues where the outcome has to be one way or the other, it can’t just be, ‘let’s study it or research it forever,’” he told FORBES in a recent interview. “These are people who are actually helping to make decisions of do we produce here, or do we produce oversees; do we consume more, consume less.”
By 4 to 1 margin, business economists say Clinton would manage economy better than Trump
America's business economist have spoken, Donald Trump wouldn't make America great. I know I am surprised, based on Trump's history.

So that means the other 86% believe that Hillary Clinton would be better for the economy.

 

[Norman]

Thread is irrelevant.
Any organization with the word "National" in the title are paid in full from US taxpayers, ie, the government.

Hope not.

National Abstinence Education Association
National Association of Evangelicals
National Black Pro-Life Union
National Black ProLife Coalition
National Black Republican Association
National Clergy Council
National Council for a New America
National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools
National Day of Prayer Task Force
National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference
National Organization for Marriage
National Prayer Network
National Pro-Life Action Center
National Pro-Life Religious Council
National Religious Broadcasters
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Review
National Right to Life Committee
National Taxpayers Union
National Association of Christian Educators
College Republican National Committee
National Council of Churches
National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality
National Committee of Catholic Laymen
National Black Foot Soldier Network
Southern National Congress

It seems like they are all very independent and not at all politically biased/connected organizations.

I hope you realize that you basically proved his point.

 

[Oldstyle]

I'm curious...you quote Neil Gross as saying young Americans are leaning left these days but claiming it has little to do with what they're being taught by college professors? Gross makes that statement and then backs it up with what? Is he saying that college professors aren't predominantly liberal today? Is he claiming that they are...but that doesn't affect the students they teach? Is he claiming that young Americans are being pulled to the left by other things...like an overwhelmingly liberal mainstream media...television programs like Saturday Night Live and the Daley Show which mix comedy with liberal bias...or a public school system that is also heavily populated by liberal teachers?

Let's be honest here, Star...young people are bombarded with liberal philosophy from pre-school right up until they leave college. Lutz is spot on in his views.

Supposing your opinion is sound. Our young are getting primarily a liberal message as they mature. I think you're going to have to accept it because of the nature of education.

Teaching is a service profession, a public service. People drawn to serving others tend to be more liberal than those who would rather be served. If you think our young people need a more balanced environment you're going to have to attract more conservatives into teaching and that's not going to be easy. Conservatives, as a group, are more interested in earning than learning.

If education leans liberal, it's because people who choose to be of service to others are more likely to be liberal. How do you get around that?

Do you think conservatives feel welcome in either the public school system or colleges? I taught high school history coming out of college back in the late seventies and got out of BECAUSE I quickly grew tired of what was only the beginning of "political correctness" in our school systems! I can't even imagine what it would be like to be a conservative working in the public school system now! You would have zero support from your fellow teachers or the administration.

 

[Indeependent]

"A policy survey of National Association for Business Economics (NABE) members released Monday shows that 55% of business economists feel that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would do the best job as president of managing the U.S. economy. The candidate with the next-largest percentage of the vote was Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson: 15% of NABE members said he’d do the best job managing the economy. Another 15% or respondents said they didn’t know who would be best or that they didn’t have an opinion.
Just 14% chose Donald Trump.
The survey results are remarkable because NABE members aren’t your average ivory tower-dwelling, left-leaning egg heads. They work for businesses, trade associations and government agencies across the country. As NABE director and survey chair LaVaughn Henry put it, these are people who have skin in the game.
“You’re speaking of people who advise business leaders on day-to-day and long term issues where the outcome has to be one way or the other, it can’t just be, ‘let’s study it or research it forever,’” he told FORBES in a recent interview. “These are people who are actually helping to make decisions of do we produce here, or do we produce oversees; do we consume more, consume less.”
By 4 to 1 margin, business economists say Clinton would manage economy better than Trump
America's business economist have spoken, Donald Trump wouldn't make America great. I know I am surprised, based on Trump's history.

So that means the other 86% believe that Hillary Clinton would be better for the economy.

If I was being paid by an MNC to give my opinion I would root for Hillary.
You'd have to be a fool not to.

 

[Al Azar]

I'm curious...you quote Neil Gross as saying young Americans are leaning left these days but claiming it has little to do with what they're being taught by college professors? Gross makes that statement and then backs it up with what? Is he saying that college professors aren't predominantly liberal today? Is he claiming that they are...but that doesn't affect the students they teach? Is he claiming that young Americans are being pulled to the left by other things...like an overwhelmingly liberal mainstream media...television programs like Saturday Night Live and the Daley Show which mix comedy with liberal bias...or a public school system that is also heavily populated by liberal teachers?

Let's be honest here, Star...young people are bombarded with liberal philosophy from pre-school right up until they leave college. Lutz is spot on in his views.

Supposing your opinion is sound. Our young are getting primarily a liberal message as they mature. I think you're going to have to accept it because of the nature of education.

Teaching is a service profession, a public service. People drawn to serving others tend to be more liberal than those who would rather be served. If you think our young people need a more balanced environment you're going to have to attract more conservatives into teaching and that's not going to be easy. Conservatives, as a group, are more interested in earning than learning.

If education leans liberal, it's because people who choose to be of service to others are more likely to be liberal. How do you get around that?

Do you think conservatives feel welcome in either the public school system or colleges? I taught high school history coming out of college back in the late seventies and got out of BECAUSE I quickly grew tired of what was only the beginning of "political correctness" in our school systems! I can't even imagine what it would be like to be a conservative working in the public school system now! You would have zero support from your fellow teachers or the administration.

Perhaps they were uncomfortable because they were conservative educators rather than simply educators.

 

[Al Azar]

Thread is irrelevant.
Any organization with the word "National" in the title are paid in full from US taxpayers, ie, the government.

Hope not.

National Abstinence Education Association
National Association of Evangelicals
National Black Pro-Life Union
National Black ProLife Coalition
National Black Republican Association
National Clergy Council
National Council for a New America
National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools
National Day of Prayer Task Force
National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference
National Organization for Marriage
National Prayer Network
National Pro-Life Action Center
National Pro-Life Religious Council
National Religious Broadcasters
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Review
National Right to Life Committee
National Taxpayers Union
National Association of Christian Educators
College Republican National Committee
National Council of Churches
National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality
National Committee of Catholic Laymen
National Black Foot Soldier Network
Southern National Congress

It seems like they are all very independent and not at all politically biased/connected organizations.

I hope you realize that you basically proved his point.

You are to be commended for your grasp of the obvious.

 

[kiwiman127]

More economists rejecting Trump.
Economists Who’ve Advised Presidents Are No Fans of Donald Trump
I just can't wait for Trumps goose-stepping supporters excuse for another rejection of Trump by another group of top economists.

 

[Star]

Let me put it this way...I was far more liberal after four years at UMass then I was when I started. What ended up making me a conservative was the real world. Once you're out in it for awhile you come to realize that college professor who sounded like they were such an authority...had little or no real world experience and was speaking about "theory". "Theory" is what Larry Summers and Christina Romer brought to the White House and the failure of "theory" is what had them both packing their bags and running back to their college jobs.

That's what undergraduate studies are supposed to do. They expose you to ideas that you might not ever have had on your own, on all sorts of subjects you might not have thought you were interested in.

How you feel about things, all things, is based on your own life experience. That doesn't mean that you were too sheltered as a youth nor that those who taught you had an agenda. It means you can't be taught everything in a classroom that you need to know to function effectively in real life.

You came to your own conclusions based on fundamentals you learned in school regardless of any spin you think was used. Great. The system works.

Frankly, anyone who is as influenced by a teacher or a group of teachers as you seem to think most economists are isn't being brainwashed. It sounds more like a student crush. I don't think that is representative of the people who call themselves economists. They do what you and I and everyone I know did - learn what we could in school the easy way and learn what's really important afterwards, the hard way.

So how is getting only one side of a political argument "exposing" students to ideas? It's not! It's programming them to believe what they are being told.

So my learning in the real world that most of my college professors didn't have a clue what they were talking about means that the "system works"? That's an amusing concept. I had to UNLEARN what I spent a lot of money learning in the first place! The system would "work" if I was given an unbiased look at different arguments and allowed to make a decision about what seemed to be the best theory! That isn't what's taking place on college campuses these days.

I can't dispute your personal academic experience your personal experiences are yours and yours alone, but it sure doesn't square with my well rounded college experience - maybe you should have chosen more diversity in your class selections...?

But-----but well rounded would put you at odds with rightwing guru Frank Luntz's meme that bettering yourself via education is the reason the GOP sucks in the minds of the majority of millennials.


'Lost' Generation

July 25, 2016
By Colleen Flaherty

Is an entire generation of voters “lost” to the Grand Old Party, and is academe at fault? That’s what conservative pollster and pundit Frank Luntz told a roomful of delegates at the Republican National Convention last week.

Yet academics who study the issue disagree.

“Luntz doesn’t have his facts straight,” said Neil Gross, Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology at Colby College, who has studied politics and the professoriate. “Young Americans are leaning to the left these days, but it has very little to do with what they’re being taught by college professors.”

Speaking to a group of South Carolina delegates at a breakfast meeting in Cleveland, Luntz declared his No. 1 priority to be “what happens at universities,” The Hill reported.

“Capitol Hill matters, yes, politics matter, but a whole generation is being taught by professors who voted for Bernie Sanders,” Luntz said. “That’s a problem that begs for a solution.”

Recycling the notion that college and university campuses are fertile recruiting grounds for an army of liberal academics, Luntz declared millennials “lost” to his party.

“It's not like we are losing -- we have lost that generation,” he said.

As proof, Luntz offered the following data point: that 58 percent of millennials -- in his words -- “say socialism is the better form of economics.” That, he said, “is the damage of academia.”

Luntz presumably was referring to a 2015 poll by Reason-Rupe, which found that 58 percent of college-age Americans have a positive view of socialism, compared to 56 percent for capitalism.

The finding apparently jarred the GOP audience. “We are screwed,” one delegate said aloud, according to The Hill.

But other data don’t support Luntz’s argument.

<more>

Is your mind just c&ping Frank Luntz's Republican talking points?

.

The reason that I took an economics class at Amherst College (through the 5 Colleges Program) was that I didn't feel like I was getting "diversity" at UMass. The class I took there with Thomas Sowell was one of the best classes I took in college.

I'm curious...you quote Neil Gross as saying young Americans are leaning left these days but claiming it has little to do with what they're being taught by college professors? Gross makes that statement and then backs it up with what? Is he saying that college professors aren't predominantly liberal today? Is he claiming that they are...but that doesn't affect the students they teach? Is he claiming that young Americans are being pulled to the left by other things...like an overwhelmingly liberal mainstream media...television programs like Saturday Night Live and the Daley Show which mix comedy with liberal bias...or a public school system that is also heavily populated by liberal teachers?

Let's be honest here, Star...young people are bombarded with liberal philosophy from pre-school right up until they leave college. Lutz is spot on in his views.

It might be an alien concept to many Republicans (especially nowadays) but I expected a well educated Republican like yourself to read the entire article before commenting on it.
Neil Gross includes several reasons why he came to his conclusion - none of which includes indoctrination by college professors as the Republican talking point guru, Frank Luntz, has claimed. And-----and if certain TV programs didn't strike a chord with millennials, millennials would change the channel to any one of a number of conservative stations. BTW the rightwing meme that the MSM is liberal is-----is bunk...

Pro-Corporate Bias – The mainstream media is composed of corporations which exist to make a profit, not spread accurate information. The corporate state of the media creates a conflict of interest where advertisers are concerned (ex. a news outlet that runs BP ads hesitates to cover their oil spills in the negative light that they deserve), as well as a conflict of interest when covering the spread of corporatism in the United States (ex. they want their taxes to remain low and to avoid new regulation).

Food for thought; I live near the (depending on which survey you want to quote) most liberal city in America, or the 2nd most liberal city in America, or the 3rd most liberal city in America - there isn't a single, not one, liberal/progressive commercial radio station in Seattle - why do you think that is?

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