Myth Of Liberal Media Bias Destroyed

[sealybobo]

Hardly a peep. And you're right. People probably knew when he stepped down. But not a peep. But Clinton affairs were fair game. You're such sheep.

Its beign reported all over Google and Yahoo.
Clinton was president of the united states. Hardly the same as a washed up speaker of the house who has been out of office over 10 years.

Liberal media my ass

Sinclair Broadcast Group, the largest owner and operator of local TV stations in the U.S., is under fire this week for requiring dozens of its news anchors to recite an on-air critique of “fake” news stories, echoing the language of President Donald Trump and his allies in their attacks on the media.

You're being brainwashed and don't even know it.

Sinclair Journalists Worry They’re Being Watched: 'There's A Lot Held Over Us' | HuffPost

You are such a tool. MSM is the propaganda arm of the Democratic/Communist Party. They've been outed repeatedly for running false stories, many of them deliberately made up. That's been documented. You turn a blind eye to it because admitting you're brainwashed would be too much for your ego to handle so you find confirmation for your misguided beliefs in yet another propaganda source. You, talking about being brainwashed is the height of irony.

I just showed you that Sinclair Media is a right wing media organization that owns and operates most of the local news channels around the country. Sinclair sends out talking points to their personalities and makes them repeat the lies your right wing machine wants to brainwash people into believing.

What is MSM? Main Stream Media? That's kind of generic don't you think? And Huffington post is for sure a lefty source but it's important to have a lefty source to counter the lies coming from Fox, Rush, Drudge, etc.

Yes a free honest media is liberal and does not like Republicans. Can you blame them? Do you like Republicans? Do you like the rich buying up all the media and then brainwashing us with propoganda?

You think honest reporting is bias. If it doesn't have a right wing spin on it it's bias and lefty. You are way too far to the right to be taken seriously. You even consider MSM liberal. I got news for ya pal. It's not. But you'll label anything that isn't RUsh or Fox as unfair. You're a hoot.

Lets go to MSNBC and Fox and see who lies.

FOX's file: | PunditFact

Fox tells the truth 10% of the time. 30% of what they say is FALSE.

When you catch MSNBC lying please let us and politifact know. So far nothing

MSNBC's file: | PunditFact

And he predictably doubles down and links another propaganda source to back up his previous propaganda sources. I noticed how your "fact checking" site doesn't provide any documentation, just calls all the Fox reporters liars. You and Pogo are perfect examples of Stalin's term "useful idiots". Useful to them, useless to society.

So let me get this straight. Unless Trump Rush or Fox says it it's fake?

When fake news blasts traditional media for being “fake news,” how does one respond?

when a local news station is required to have its anchor read propaganda created by its master

And it’s about to get bigger. The company is poised to expand even further with a pending $3.9 billion purchase of Tribune Media, which owns 42 other stations, including some in the largest markets — New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.

Injecting opinion into millions of homes, prepackaged and then delivered by stations that have earned their audience’s trust

this mega-multiplatform media conglomerate is directly imposing its own agenda on unwitting audiences.

The obvious question should be that once you have hundreds of stations regurgitating the same message to millions of people, how do neutral, third-party entities combat the disinformation?

This is the real and disheartening danger. How does a free nation remain free without a vibrant fourth estate? When a media company as vast and penetrating as Sinclair can claim the moral high road, while molding and marshaling public thought essentially against a free press, it seems not irrational to fear a future featuring a Soviet-style propagandist state.

 

[Pogo]

Its beign reported all over Google and Yahoo.
Clinton was president of the united states. Hardly the same as a washed up speaker of the house who has been out of office over 10 years.

Liberal media my ass

Sinclair Broadcast Group, the largest owner and operator of local TV stations in the U.S., is under fire this week for requiring dozens of its news anchors to recite an on-air critique of “fake” news stories, echoing the language of President Donald Trump and his allies in their attacks on the media.

You're being brainwashed and don't even know it.

Sinclair Journalists Worry They’re Being Watched: 'There's A Lot Held Over Us' | HuffPost

You are such a tool. MSM is the propaganda arm of the Democratic/Communist Party. They've been outed repeatedly for running false stories, many of them deliberately made up. That's been documented. You turn a blind eye to it because admitting you're brainwashed would be too much for your ego to handle so you find confirmation for your misguided beliefs in yet another propaganda source. You, talking about being brainwashed is the height of irony.

I just showed you that Sinclair Media is a right wing media organization that owns and operates most of the local news channels around the country. Sinclair sends out talking points to their personalities and makes them repeat the lies your right wing machine wants to brainwash people into believing.

What is MSM? Main Stream Media? That's kind of generic don't you think? And Huffington post is for sure a lefty source but it's important to have a lefty source to counter the lies coming from Fox, Rush, Drudge, etc.

Yes a free honest media is liberal and does not like Republicans. Can you blame them? Do you like Republicans? Do you like the rich buying up all the media and then brainwashing us with propoganda?

You think honest reporting is bias. If it doesn't have a right wing spin on it it's bias and lefty. You are way too far to the right to be taken seriously. You even consider MSM liberal. I got news for ya pal. It's not. But you'll label anything that isn't RUsh or Fox as unfair. You're a hoot.

Lets go to MSNBC and Fox and see who lies.

FOX's file: | PunditFact

Fox tells the truth 10% of the time. 30% of what they say is FALSE.

When you catch MSNBC lying please let us and politifact know. So far nothing

MSNBC's file: | PunditFact

Local news stations generally don't discuss national issues. They cover murders, fires, robberies and city politics.

Bullshit. This is why the Deadspin video was so powerful: It shows exactly how a company that controls so many local media outlets can influence messaging.

Sinclair’s plan to force its anchors to read these anti-media promos — and it wasn’t quite as alarming as seeing it on video.

But Sinclair’s influence might not be so apparent going forward; it might be far more difficult to track. And even when we catch instances of Sinclair’s right-wing agenda, they might not look as haunting as when we see them edited together.

You must love the brainwashing message or you are too stupid to see it? You'll argue anything though we already know that.


Sinclair’s pro-Trump news is taking over local TV. See if they own your station.

In fact, some of the most troubling trends in conservative media are not so much the things that are said on air. Rather, they are the things that are ignored. Whether it’s downplaying the president’s alleged affair with a porn actress or a crisis in Puerto Rico, modern conservative media doesn’t just shape our picture of the world with persuasion; rather, it also does it with omission.

But not all news stations went along

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FOX 47 Madison

✔@fox47madison


In response to the Sinclair message aired: "WMSN/FOX47 Madison did not air the Sinclair promotional announcement during our 9pm news this weekend. Rather, we stayed true to our commitment to provide our Madison area viewers local news, weather and sports of interest to them."

7:01 PM - Apr 2, 2018

Top viewer commentary said:

>> Thank you for honoring your commitment to your viewers! There's no doubt that you'll get grief from the owners but you honored the basic fundamentals of our democracy. Those that aired it are no different than North Korean or Russian Propaganda TV. <<​

"Thanks" indeed but it should go without saying.

Butt wait ---- "liburrul media". Despite glaring evidence to the reverse. Yeah that's the ticket.
"War is Peace", "Freedom is Slavery", and most pertinently "Ignorance is Strength".

 

[sealybobo]

Liberal media my ass

Sinclair Broadcast Group, the largest owner and operator of local TV stations in the U.S., is under fire this week for requiring dozens of its news anchors to recite an on-air critique of “fake” news stories, echoing the language of President Donald Trump and his allies in their attacks on the media.

You're being brainwashed and don't even know it.

Sinclair Journalists Worry They’re Being Watched: 'There's A Lot Held Over Us' | HuffPost

You are such a tool. MSM is the propaganda arm of the Democratic/Communist Party. They've been outed repeatedly for running false stories, many of them deliberately made up. That's been documented. You turn a blind eye to it because admitting you're brainwashed would be too much for your ego to handle so you find confirmation for your misguided beliefs in yet another propaganda source. You, talking about being brainwashed is the height of irony.

I just showed you that Sinclair Media is a right wing media organization that owns and operates most of the local news channels around the country. Sinclair sends out talking points to their personalities and makes them repeat the lies your right wing machine wants to brainwash people into believing.

What is MSM? Main Stream Media? That's kind of generic don't you think? And Huffington post is for sure a lefty source but it's important to have a lefty source to counter the lies coming from Fox, Rush, Drudge, etc.

Yes a free honest media is liberal and does not like Republicans. Can you blame them? Do you like Republicans? Do you like the rich buying up all the media and then brainwashing us with propoganda?

You think honest reporting is bias. If it doesn't have a right wing spin on it it's bias and lefty. You are way too far to the right to be taken seriously. You even consider MSM liberal. I got news for ya pal. It's not. But you'll label anything that isn't RUsh or Fox as unfair. You're a hoot.

Lets go to MSNBC and Fox and see who lies.

FOX's file: | PunditFact

Fox tells the truth 10% of the time. 30% of what they say is FALSE.

When you catch MSNBC lying please let us and politifact know. So far nothing

MSNBC's file: | PunditFact

Local news stations generally don't discuss national issues. They cover murders, fires, robberies and city politics.

Bullshit. This is why the Deadspin video was so powerful: It shows exactly how a company that controls so many local media outlets can influence messaging.

Sinclair’s plan to force its anchors to read these anti-media promos — and it wasn’t quite as alarming as seeing it on video.

But Sinclair’s influence might not be so apparent going forward; it might be far more difficult to track. And even when we catch instances of Sinclair’s right-wing agenda, they might not look as haunting as when we see them edited together.

You must love the brainwashing message or you are too stupid to see it? You'll argue anything though we already know that.


Sinclair’s pro-Trump news is taking over local TV. See if they own your station.

In fact, some of the most troubling trends in conservative media are not so much the things that are said on air. Rather, they are the things that are ignored. Whether it’s downplaying the president’s alleged affair with a porn actress or a crisis in Puerto Rico, modern conservative media doesn’t just shape our picture of the world with persuasion; rather, it also does it with omission.

But not all news stations went along

View image on Twitter


FOX 47 Madison

✔@fox47madison


In response to the Sinclair message aired: "WMSN/FOX47 Madison did not air the Sinclair promotional announcement during our 9pm news this weekend. Rather, we stayed true to our commitment to provide our Madison area viewers local news, weather and sports of interest to them."

7:01 PM - Apr 2, 2018

Top viewer commentary said:

>> Thank you for honoring your commitment to your viewers! There's no doubt that you'll get grief from the owners but you honored the basic fundamentals of our democracy. Those that aired it are no different than North Korean or Russian Propaganda TV. <<​

"Thanks" indeed but it should go without saying.

Butt wait ---- "liburrul media". Despite glaring evidence to the reverse. Yeah that's the ticket.
"War is Peace", "Freedom is Slavery", and most pertinently "Ignorance is Strength".

You know who I laugh at? Bill and Hillary Clinton. Bill Clinton helped get himself impeached and helped Hillary lose when he went along with this Republican bill.

Telecommunications Act of 1996

Then the rich/republicans gobbled up all the media and they used that media to convince the American people that Hillary is a liar and shouldn't be president. And they used it to talk about Monica every day until Bill was impeached. This could even be responsible for Al Gore losing. It could also be how GW Bush got away with lying us into Iraq.

Well I'm glad this came back to bite her and Bill in the asses. They went along with too many of the GOP's plans in the 90's.

Bill Clinton’s telecom law: Twenty years later

 

[sealybobo]

Hardly a peep. And you're right. People probably knew when he stepped down. But not a peep. But Clinton affairs were fair game. You're such sheep.

Its beign reported all over Google and Yahoo.
Clinton was president of the united states. Hardly the same as a washed up speaker of the house who has been out of office over 10 years.

Liberal media my ass

Sinclair Broadcast Group, the largest owner and operator of local TV stations in the U.S., is under fire this week for requiring dozens of its news anchors to recite an on-air critique of “fake” news stories, echoing the language of President Donald Trump and his allies in their attacks on the media.

You're being brainwashed and don't even know it.

Sinclair Journalists Worry They’re Being Watched: 'There's A Lot Held Over Us' | HuffPost

You are such a tool. MSM is the propaganda arm of the Democratic/Communist Party. They've been outed repeatedly for running false stories, many of them deliberately made up. That's been documented. You turn a blind eye to it because admitting you're brainwashed would be too much for your ego to handle so you find confirmation for your misguided beliefs in yet another propaganda source. You, talking about being brainwashed is the height of irony.

I just showed you that Sinclair Media is a right wing media organization that owns and operates most of the local news channels around the country. Sinclair sends out talking points to their personalities and makes them repeat the lies your right wing machine wants to brainwash people into believing.

What is MSM? Main Stream Media? That's kind of generic don't you think? And Huffington post is for sure a lefty source but it's important to have a lefty source to counter the lies coming from Fox, Rush, Drudge, etc.

Yes a free honest media is liberal and does not like Republicans. Can you blame them? Do you like Republicans? Do you like the rich buying up all the media and then brainwashing us with propoganda?

You think honest reporting is bias. If it doesn't have a right wing spin on it it's bias and lefty. You are way too far to the right to be taken seriously. You even consider MSM liberal. I got news for ya pal. It's not. But you'll label anything that isn't RUsh or Fox as unfair. You're a hoot.

Lets go to MSNBC and Fox and see who lies.

FOX's file: | PunditFact

Fox tells the truth 10% of the time. 30% of what they say is FALSE.

When you catch MSNBC lying please let us and politifact know. So far nothing

MSNBC's file: | PunditFact

Local news stations generally don't discuss national issues. They cover murders, fires, robberies and city politics.

Yes and if you take over the local news. You know, the news that people trust and assume isn't liberal or conservative, and if you implant your message carefully, you can change stupid minds. Fortunately Sinclair was obvious just like Republicans and their illegal gerrymandering. Just like Trump's collusion is obvious.

 

[Pogo]

You are such a tool. MSM is the propaganda arm of the Democratic/Communist Party. They've been outed repeatedly for running false stories, many of them deliberately made up. That's been documented. You turn a blind eye to it because admitting you're brainwashed would be too much for your ego to handle so you find confirmation for your misguided beliefs in yet another propaganda source. You, talking about being brainwashed is the height of irony.

I just showed you that Sinclair Media is a right wing media organization that owns and operates most of the local news channels around the country. Sinclair sends out talking points to their personalities and makes them repeat the lies your right wing machine wants to brainwash people into believing.

What is MSM? Main Stream Media? That's kind of generic don't you think? And Huffington post is for sure a lefty source but it's important to have a lefty source to counter the lies coming from Fox, Rush, Drudge, etc.

Yes a free honest media is liberal and does not like Republicans. Can you blame them? Do you like Republicans? Do you like the rich buying up all the media and then brainwashing us with propoganda?

You think honest reporting is bias. If it doesn't have a right wing spin on it it's bias and lefty. You are way too far to the right to be taken seriously. You even consider MSM liberal. I got news for ya pal. It's not. But you'll label anything that isn't RUsh or Fox as unfair. You're a hoot.

Lets go to MSNBC and Fox and see who lies.

FOX's file: | PunditFact

Fox tells the truth 10% of the time. 30% of what they say is FALSE.

When you catch MSNBC lying please let us and politifact know. So far nothing

MSNBC's file: | PunditFact

Local news stations generally don't discuss national issues. They cover murders, fires, robberies and city politics.

Bullshit. This is why the Deadspin video was so powerful: It shows exactly how a company that controls so many local media outlets can influence messaging.

Sinclair’s plan to force its anchors to read these anti-media promos — and it wasn’t quite as alarming as seeing it on video.

But Sinclair’s influence might not be so apparent going forward; it might be far more difficult to track. And even when we catch instances of Sinclair’s right-wing agenda, they might not look as haunting as when we see them edited together.

You must love the brainwashing message or you are too stupid to see it? You'll argue anything though we already know that.


Sinclair’s pro-Trump news is taking over local TV. See if they own your station.

In fact, some of the most troubling trends in conservative media are not so much the things that are said on air. Rather, they are the things that are ignored. Whether it’s downplaying the president’s alleged affair with a porn actress or a crisis in Puerto Rico, modern conservative media doesn’t just shape our picture of the world with persuasion; rather, it also does it with omission.

But not all news stations went along

View image on Twitter


FOX 47 Madison

✔@fox47madison


In response to the Sinclair message aired: "WMSN/FOX47 Madison did not air the Sinclair promotional announcement during our 9pm news this weekend. Rather, we stayed true to our commitment to provide our Madison area viewers local news, weather and sports of interest to them."

7:01 PM - Apr 2, 2018

Top viewer commentary said:

>> Thank you for honoring your commitment to your viewers! There's no doubt that you'll get grief from the owners but you honored the basic fundamentals of our democracy. Those that aired it are no different than North Korean or Russian Propaganda TV. <<​

"Thanks" indeed but it should go without saying.

Butt wait ---- "liburrul media". Despite glaring evidence to the reverse. Yeah that's the ticket.
"War is Peace", "Freedom is Slavery", and most pertinently "Ignorance is Strength".

You know who I laugh at? Bill and Hillary Clinton. Bill Clinton helped get himself impeached and helped Hillary lose when he went along with this Republican bill.

Telecommunications Act of 1996

Then the rich/republicans gobbled up all the media and they used that media to convince the American people that Hillary is a liar and shouldn't be president. And they used it to talk about Monica every day until Bill was impeached. This could even be responsible for Al Gore losing. It could also be how GW Bush got away with lying us into Iraq.

Well I'm glad this came back to bite her and Bill in the asses. They went along with too many of the GOP's plans in the 90's.

Bill Clinton’s telecom law: Twenty years later

Bull Clinton's wimp-ass passing of TelComm 96 with nary a whimper --- a structural revolution to which the mass media networks (those who stood to benefit from it) devoted a grand total coverage of nineteen minutes, combined --- is the most egregious fuckup of either of his two terms.

Yanno when AT&T monopolized the telephone system like Sinclair's doing with local (cough cough) television, they were forced by government to break up. Now we've got government sanctioning it.

 

[sealybobo]

I just showed you that Sinclair Media is a right wing media organization that owns and operates most of the local news channels around the country. Sinclair sends out talking points to their personalities and makes them repeat the lies your right wing machine wants to brainwash people into believing.

What is MSM? Main Stream Media? That's kind of generic don't you think? And Huffington post is for sure a lefty source but it's important to have a lefty source to counter the lies coming from Fox, Rush, Drudge, etc.

Yes a free honest media is liberal and does not like Republicans. Can you blame them? Do you like Republicans? Do you like the rich buying up all the media and then brainwashing us with propoganda?

You think honest reporting is bias. If it doesn't have a right wing spin on it it's bias and lefty. You are way too far to the right to be taken seriously. You even consider MSM liberal. I got news for ya pal. It's not. But you'll label anything that isn't RUsh or Fox as unfair. You're a hoot.

Lets go to MSNBC and Fox and see who lies.

FOX's file: | PunditFact

Fox tells the truth 10% of the time. 30% of what they say is FALSE.

When you catch MSNBC lying please let us and politifact know. So far nothing

MSNBC's file: | PunditFact

Local news stations generally don't discuss national issues. They cover murders, fires, robberies and city politics.

Bullshit. This is why the Deadspin video was so powerful: It shows exactly how a company that controls so many local media outlets can influence messaging.

Sinclair’s plan to force its anchors to read these anti-media promos — and it wasn’t quite as alarming as seeing it on video.

But Sinclair’s influence might not be so apparent going forward; it might be far more difficult to track. And even when we catch instances of Sinclair’s right-wing agenda, they might not look as haunting as when we see them edited together.

You must love the brainwashing message or you are too stupid to see it? You'll argue anything though we already know that.


Sinclair’s pro-Trump news is taking over local TV. See if they own your station.

In fact, some of the most troubling trends in conservative media are not so much the things that are said on air. Rather, they are the things that are ignored. Whether it’s downplaying the president’s alleged affair with a porn actress or a crisis in Puerto Rico, modern conservative media doesn’t just shape our picture of the world with persuasion; rather, it also does it with omission.

But not all news stations went along

View image on Twitter


FOX 47 Madison

✔@fox47madison


In response to the Sinclair message aired: "WMSN/FOX47 Madison did not air the Sinclair promotional announcement during our 9pm news this weekend. Rather, we stayed true to our commitment to provide our Madison area viewers local news, weather and sports of interest to them."

7:01 PM - Apr 2, 2018

Top viewer commentary said:

>> Thank you for honoring your commitment to your viewers! There's no doubt that you'll get grief from the owners but you honored the basic fundamentals of our democracy. Those that aired it are no different than North Korean or Russian Propaganda TV. <<​

"Thanks" indeed but it should go without saying.

Butt wait ---- "liburrul media". Despite glaring evidence to the reverse. Yeah that's the ticket.
"War is Peace", "Freedom is Slavery", and most pertinently "Ignorance is Strength".

You know who I laugh at? Bill and Hillary Clinton. Bill Clinton helped get himself impeached and helped Hillary lose when he went along with this Republican bill.

Telecommunications Act of 1996

Then the rich/republicans gobbled up all the media and they used that media to convince the American people that Hillary is a liar and shouldn't be president. And they used it to talk about Monica every day until Bill was impeached. This could even be responsible for Al Gore losing. It could also be how GW Bush got away with lying us into Iraq.

Well I'm glad this came back to bite her and Bill in the asses. They went along with too many of the GOP's plans in the 90's.

Bill Clinton’s telecom law: Twenty years later

Bull Clinton's wimp-ass passing of TelComm 96 with nary a whimper --- a structural revolution to which the mass media networks (those who stood to benefit from it) devoted a grand total coverage of nineteen minutes, combined --- is the most egregious fuckup of either of his two terms.

Yanno when AT&T monopolized the telephone system like Sinclair's doing with local (cough cough) television, they were forced by government to break up. Now we've got government sanctioning it.

This reminds me of how much time the liberal media spent talking about Citizens United
Why Corporate Media Won't Cover Citizens United

According to Bloomberg Politics, a full 78 percent of Americans think we should overturn the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision that opened up our election process to floods of corporate money.

Or the Tea Act gave the British East India Company total control over the North American tea trade, exempted it from having to pay taxes on exported tea, and gave it a refund on any tea it was unable to sell.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Myth Of Liberal Media Bias Destroyed As Study Finds Conservatives Dominate Sunday Shows

The Times tried to explain away the distribution as slightly lopsided, but that was just excuse making for a pattern of systemic corporate media conservative bias. Tim Russert is considered the gold standard among Sunday morning hosts, but during his time at Meet The Press, Republican guests outnumbered Democratic guests by a 2-1 margin.

Doesn't matter, study after study shows there is no "liberal bias" -- in fact on fiscal policy and foreign policy it's the opposite. But the Fox Newsies will still cling what their masters tell them.

There is a contingent of the right wing that actually believes they will some day make normal journalism 'fake' and Fake News like you find on Fox News and Breitbart 'normal'. They think they are going to make their 'opinion' more important than facts.

Sorry cons it isn't going to happen. You can fool yourselves and those like you but this Socialist Utopia cons are looking for like they have in North Korea can only happen in a vacuum. Where facts can't get out.

 

[Unkotare]

......

Yes and if you take over the local news. You know, the news that people trust and assume isn't liberal or conservative......

Only an ignorant dupe makes such an assumption. Local news sources are often just cheaper versions of a larger parent company, with all attendant bias and agenda.

 

[S.J.]

You are such a tool. MSM is the propaganda arm of the Democratic/Communist Party. They've been outed repeatedly for running false stories, many of them deliberately made up. That's been documented. You turn a blind eye to it because admitting you're brainwashed would be too much for your ego to handle so you find confirmation for your misguided beliefs in yet another propaganda source. You, talking about being brainwashed is the height of irony.

I just showed you that Sinclair Media is a right wing media organization that owns and operates most of the local news channels around the country. Sinclair sends out talking points to their personalities and makes them repeat the lies your right wing machine wants to brainwash people into believing.

What is MSM? Main Stream Media? That's kind of generic don't you think? And Huffington post is for sure a lefty source but it's important to have a lefty source to counter the lies coming from Fox, Rush, Drudge, etc.

Yes a free honest media is liberal and does not like Republicans. Can you blame them? Do you like Republicans? Do you like the rich buying up all the media and then brainwashing us with propoganda?

You think honest reporting is bias. If it doesn't have a right wing spin on it it's bias and lefty. You are way too far to the right to be taken seriously. You even consider MSM liberal. I got news for ya pal. It's not. But you'll label anything that isn't RUsh or Fox as unfair. You're a hoot.

Lets go to MSNBC and Fox and see who lies.

FOX's file: | PunditFact

Fox tells the truth 10% of the time. 30% of what they say is FALSE.

When you catch MSNBC lying please let us and politifact know. So far nothing

MSNBC's file: | PunditFact

​

But ---- "liburrul media". They're still trying to sell that shit.

Orwell warned about Doublethink but he understated how insidious it can be.

Only the snowflake idiots are swallowing the meme that the media isn't biased. It's been proven to be biased over and over again.

And everyone in the world knows it. They think if they keep denying it it'll somehow be true (as the world laughs at them).

Well there you have it. One wag says "because I say so" and the other chimes in with the "everybody knows" fallacy.

That's two corroborating pieces of rockheaded-solid evidence right there. Yessiree Bob.

Gee Wally, what a great debate team. You might say, master debaters.

Yeah, keep repeating your mantra. No fake news, no fake news, no fake news.
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It's what is called "documentation". Something you and sealyhomo have yet to provide.

 

[Pogo]

>> Sinclair also began to develop workarounds to FCC regulations barring ownership of more than one commercial station per media market. The Smith brothers [owners of Sinclair -- see link] had their mother create a shell company to buy up stations that Sinclair legally could not, “promptly leasing the broadcast rights to Sinclair under a loophole known as a Local Marketing Agreement,” as Hylton explains. The FCC figured out what they were doing and fined Sinclair as well as the shell company, but enabled them to keep going with that loophole in the future.

That ability to work around limitations on owning multiple networks in a given city or region has helped fuel Sinclair’s incredible growth. Mother Jones’s Kroll reported that Sinclair is set, after the Tribune deal, to own two or more stations in 69 media markets across 46 of the 50 states. It will have at least one station in 39 of the top 50 media markets and seven of the top 10.

Sinclair’s regulatory gamesmanship was aided, Hylton writes, by its cultivation of relationships with influential politicians. The Smith brothers became prolific fundraisers for their local Congress member, Robert Ehrlich of Baltimore County, Maryland.

“In 1998, Sinclair had filed a request with the FCC to purchase fifteen new stations, some located in cities where the company already owned stations, but FCC commissioner Michael Powell had been reluctant to approve the deal,” Hylton writes. “Ehrlich fired off a series of letters to Powell, mincing no words. He reminded Powell that he was a member of the House committee that oversees the FCC and its budget, questioned whether Powell had been influenced by liberals like Jesse Jackson, and threatened that if the Sinclair request was not approved soon, he would ‘not hesitate to call for a congressional investigation.’ By the end of the year, fourteen of the fifteen purchases were approved.”

[Poster note: Michael Powell is black, so read into that whatever applies]

When Ehrlich ran for governor in 2002, the Sinclair networks backed him extensively, including by instructing their Baltimore station’s reporters to dig up dirt on the Democratic candidate, Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, according to Hylton.

The Smiths also gave Ehrlich a helicopter to use, free of charge, in violation of state campaign finance rules; Ehrlich, once he won the election, would pay Sinclair $60,000 from the state budget to produce a set of ads that “featured the new governor popping up in people’s homes to help with household chores,” as Hylton put it.

.... In 2008, Sinclair raised eyebrows yet again for running an ad attempting to tie then-Sen. Barack Obama to Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers. The ad declared that Obama was “friends with Ayers” and that his “political career was launched at Ayers’s home.” (It wasn’t.) This was an ad, not Sinclair original programming — but, the New York Times’s Jim Rutenberg noted, it was an ad that Fox News and CNN declined to run due to legal concerns.

In 2010, Sinclair faced another uproar for running sleazy political ads — this time, a 25-minute infomercial from the National Republican Trust PAC called “Breaking Point.” ... The ads, narrated by E.W. Jackson — an ultra-right-wing minister who has decried yoga as leading to Satanism, and who’d later achieve attention as the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor of Virginia in 2013 — paints a picture of President Obama as a pawn in a shadowy conspiracy meant to “mak[e] billionaire George Soros rich.” <<​

Say, that's a neat trick.... making a billionaire rich. Must be like watering your water.

>> In December 2016, Jared Kushner told a group of business executives that the Trump campaign had cut a deal with Sinclair for better coverage. In exchange for more access to Trump, “Sinclair would broadcast their Trump interviews across the country without commentary, Kushner said,” Politico’s Josh Dawsey and Hadas Gold reported. “Kushner highlighted that Sinclair, in states like Ohio, reaches a much wider audience — around 250,000 listeners [sic] — than networks like CNN, which reach somewhere around 30,000.” <<​

Back here on earth, CNN's audience is actually at least twenty times higher than that so this is Kushner serving fake news to fake news mongers....

>> One Sinclair journalist messaged the LA Times’s Matt Pearce to show a provision in their contract requiring them to pay back 40 percent of their base pay, times the amount of time left in the contract, should they quit. That kind of provision isn’t just punitive — it’s arguably illegal and unenforceable. But it could certainly intimidate staffers out of leaving, even if they strongly disagree with the editorial choices their owner makes.

The past month has seen a deserved focus on the possible role social media, particularly Facebook, plays in spreading political misinformation. But Sinclair is a good example of how political media, including outright conspiracy theorizing, can spread through more mundane and less technologically novel means too. Local news isn’t sexy or new. But it’s a mainstay of millions of Americans’ news diets. And Sinclair is profoundly changing it in a way that helps the Republican Party and the Trump administration. << --- Sinclair Explained​

 

[sealybobo]

>> Sinclair also began to develop workarounds to FCC regulations barring ownership of more than one commercial station per media market. The Smith brothers [owners of Sinclair -- see link] had their mother create a shell company to buy up stations that Sinclair legally could not, “promptly leasing the broadcast rights to Sinclair under a loophole known as a Local Marketing Agreement,” as Hylton explains. The FCC figured out what they were doing and fined Sinclair as well as the shell company, but enabled them to keep going with that loophole in the future.

That ability to work around limitations on owning multiple networks in a given city or region has helped fuel Sinclair’s incredible growth. Mother Jones’s Kroll reported that Sinclair is set, after the Tribune deal, to own two or more stations in 69 media markets across 46 of the 50 states. It will have at least one station in 39 of the top 50 media markets and seven of the top 10.

Sinclair’s regulatory gamesmanship was aided, Hylton writes, by its cultivation of relationships with influential politicians. The Smith brothers became prolific fundraisers for their local Congress member, Robert Ehrlich of Baltimore County, Maryland.

“In 1998, Sinclair had filed a request with the FCC to purchase fifteen new stations, some located in cities where the company already owned stations, but FCC commissioner Michael Powell had been reluctant to approve the deal,” Hylton writes. “Ehrlich fired off a series of letters to Powell, mincing no words. He reminded Powell that he was a member of the House committee that oversees the FCC and its budget, questioned whether Powell had been influenced by liberals like Jesse Jackson, and threatened that if the Sinclair request was not approved soon, he would ‘not hesitate to call for a congressional investigation.’ By the end of the year, fourteen of the fifteen purchases were approved.”

[Poster note: Michael Powell is black, so read into that whatever applies]

When Ehrlich ran for governor in 2002, the Sinclair networks backed him extensively, including by instructing their Baltimore station’s reporters to dig up dirt on the Democratic candidate, Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, according to Hylton.

The Smiths also gave Ehrlich a helicopter to use, free of charge, in violation of state campaign finance rules; Ehrlich, once he won the election, would pay Sinclair $60,000 from the state budget to produce a set of ads that “featured the new governor popping up in people’s homes to help with household chores,” as Hylton put it.

.... In 2008, Sinclair raised eyebrows yet again for running an ad attempting to tie then-Sen. Barack Obama to Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers. The ad declared that Obama was “friends with Ayers” and that his “political career was launched at Ayers’s home.” (It wasn’t.) This was an ad, not Sinclair original programming — but, the New York Times’s Jim Rutenberg noted, it was an ad that Fox News and CNN declined to run due to legal concerns.

In 2010, Sinclair faced another uproar for running sleazy political ads — this time, a 25-minute infomercial from the National Republican Trust PAC called “Breaking Point.” ... The ads, narrated by E.W. Jackson — an ultra-right-wing minister who has decried yoga as leading to Satanism, and who’d later achieve attention as the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor of Virginia in 2013 — paints a picture of President Obama as a pawn in a shadowy conspiracy meant to “mak[e] billionaire George Soros rich.” <<​

Say, that's a neat trick.... making a billionaire rich. Must be like watering your water.

>> In December 2016, Jared Kushner told a group of business executives that the Trump campaign had cut a deal with Sinclair for better coverage. In exchange for more access to Trump, “Sinclair would broadcast their Trump interviews across the country without commentary, Kushner said,” Politico’s Josh Dawsey and Hadas Gold reported. “Kushner highlighted that Sinclair, in states like Ohio, reaches a much wider audience — around 250,000 listeners [sic] — than networks like CNN, which reach somewhere around 30,000.” <<​

Back here on earth, CNN's audience is actually at least twenty times higher than that so this is Kushner serving fake news to fake news mongers....

>> One Sinclair journalist messaged the LA Times’s Matt Pearce to show a provision in their contract requiring them to pay back 40 percent of their base pay, times the amount of time left in the contract, should they quit. That kind of provision isn’t just punitive — it’s arguably illegal and unenforceable. But it could certainly intimidate staffers out of leaving, even if they strongly disagree with the editorial choices their owner makes.

The past month has seen a deserved focus on the possible role social media, particularly Facebook, plays in spreading political misinformation. But Sinclair is a good example of how political media, including outright conspiracy theorizing, can spread through more mundane and less technologically novel means too. Local news isn’t sexy or new. But it’s a mainstay of millions of Americans’ news diets. And Sinclair is profoundly changing it in a way that helps the Republican Party and the Trump administration. << --- Sinclair Explained​

No sinister motives there.

 

[sealybobo]

I just showed you that Sinclair Media is a right wing media organization that owns and operates most of the local news channels around the country. Sinclair sends out talking points to their personalities and makes them repeat the lies your right wing machine wants to brainwash people into believing.

What is MSM? Main Stream Media? That's kind of generic don't you think? And Huffington post is for sure a lefty source but it's important to have a lefty source to counter the lies coming from Fox, Rush, Drudge, etc.

Yes a free honest media is liberal and does not like Republicans. Can you blame them? Do you like Republicans? Do you like the rich buying up all the media and then brainwashing us with propoganda?

You think honest reporting is bias. If it doesn't have a right wing spin on it it's bias and lefty. You are way too far to the right to be taken seriously. You even consider MSM liberal. I got news for ya pal. It's not. But you'll label anything that isn't RUsh or Fox as unfair. You're a hoot.

Lets go to MSNBC and Fox and see who lies.

FOX's file: | PunditFact

Fox tells the truth 10% of the time. 30% of what they say is FALSE.

When you catch MSNBC lying please let us and politifact know. So far nothing

MSNBC's file: | PunditFact

​

But ---- "liburrul media". They're still trying to sell that shit.

Orwell warned about Doublethink but he understated how insidious it can be.

Only the snowflake idiots are swallowing the meme that the media isn't biased. It's been proven to be biased over and over again.

And everyone in the world knows it. They think if they keep denying it it'll somehow be true (as the world laughs at them).

Well there you have it. One wag says "because I say so" and the other chimes in with the "everybody knows" fallacy.

That's two corroborating pieces of rockheaded-solid evidence right there. Yessiree Bob.

Gee Wally, what a great debate team. You might say, master debaters.

Yeah, keep repeating your mantra. No fake news, no fake news, no fake news.
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It's what is called "documentation". Something you and sealyhomo have yet to provide.

CNN corrects a story. That’s all I saw. They got something wrong and corrected themselves.

You know what’s sad? Republicans give the media bad information on purpose. If they use it republicans say “see? Fake news”

Sinclair was busted for purposely trying to brainwash us all with fake news about fake news.

You’re worrying about one bad story not hundreds of stations that are brainwashing people with right lies

 

[GreenBean]

study after study shows there is no "liberal bias"

"......the scholarship on media bias is fraught with its own biases, and for an objective algorithm to latch on to political leanings is a neat feat. Typically studies of bias start out by designating particular outlets as either left- or right-leaning and then examine, whether with a computer or human beings, how those biases play out. Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil and his colleagues took a different approach. They didn’t assign political slant, but just looked for patterns that emerge from the news outlet’s quoting behavior. They did this using the 2,274 speeches made by President Obama from 2009 to 2014 and 275 media outlets that quoted him."

Unbiased computer confirms media bias

 

[GreenBean]

"Most reporters and editors are liberal — a now-dated Pew Research Center poll found that liberals outnumber conservatives in the media by some 5 to 1, and that comports with my own anecdotal experience at National Public Radio. When you are liberal, and everyone else around you is as well, it is easy to fall into groupthink on what stories are important, what sources are legitimate and what the narrative of the day will be."

https://nypost.com/2017/10/21/the-other-half-of-america-that-the-liberal-media-doesnt-cover/

 

[GreenBean]

Conservatives Are Right. The News Media is Very Liberal

And the thing is, conservatives have a point. Study after study has shown that the mainstream media leans left, and that, as economists Tim Groseclose and Jeff Milyo have written, “an almost overwhelming fraction of journalists are liberal.” The extent of this bias, of course, depends on what your definitions of liberal and conservative. And the media has other, arguably more important, biases: towards controversy and producing content that is profitable. But it is safe to say that the median journalist in America is to the left of the median American voter, and that this affects how the news is presented to the public.

 

[sealybobo]

study after study shows there is no "liberal bias"

"......the scholarship on media bias is fraught with its own biases, and for an objective algorithm to latch on to political leanings is a neat feat. Typically studies of bias start out by designating particular outlets as either left- or right-leaning and then examine, whether with a computer or human beings, how those biases play out. Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil and his colleagues took a different approach. They didn’t assign political slant, but just looked for patterns that emerge from the news outlet’s quoting behavior. They did this using the 2,274 speeches made by President Obama from 2009 to 2014 and 275 media outlets that quoted him."

Unbiased computer confirms media bias

This is why republicans got Bill Clinton to deregulate the media so they could take it over and use it just like we see Sinclair did.

Not only is the media slanted right it’s coordinated like never before.

 

[GreenBean]

• Fully 81% of news media professionals favor affirmative action in employment and academia.
• Some 71% agree that the “government should work to ensure that everyone has a job.”
• 75% agree that the “government should work to reduce the income gap between rich and poor.”
• 56% say that the United States has exploited the nations of the Third World.
• 57% say that America’s disproportionate consumption of the world’s natural resources is “immoral.”
• Nearly half agree that “the very structure of our society causes people to feel alienated.”
• Only 30% agree that “private enterprise is fair to workers.”

• 94% of media professionals voted for Democrat Lyndon Johnson over Republican Barry Goldwater.
• In 1968, 86% voted for Democrat Hubert Humphrey over Republican Richard Nixon.
• In 1972, 81% voted for Democrat George McGovern over the incumbent Nixon.
• In 1976, 81% voted for Democrat Jimmy Carter over Republican Gerald Ford.
• In 1980, twice as many cast their ballots for Carter rather than for Republican Ronald Reagan.
• In 1984, 58% supported Democrat Walter Mondale, whom Reagan defeated in the biggest landslide in presidential election history.
• In 1988, White House correspondents from various major newspapers, television networks, magazines, and news services supported Democrat Michael Dukakis over Republican George H.W. Bush by a ratio of 12-to-1.
• In 1992, those same correspondents supported Democrat Bill Clinton over the incumbent Bush by a ratio of 9 to 2.
• Among Washington bureau chiefs and congressional correspondents, the disparity was 89% vs. 7%, in Clinton’s favor.
• In a 2004 poll of campaign journalists, those based outside of Washington, DC supported Democrat John Kerry over Republican George W. Bush by a ratio of 3-to-1. Those based inside the Beltway favored Kerry by a 12-to-1 ratio.
• In a 2008 survey of 144 journalists nationwide, journalists were 8 times likelier to make campaign contributions to Democrats than to Republicans.
• A 2008 Investors Business Daily study put the campaign donation ratio at 11.5-to-1, in favor of Democrats. In terms of total dollars given, the ratio was 15-to-1.

• In a 1988 survey of business reporters, 54% of respondents identified themselves as Democrats, 9% as Republicans.
• In a 1992 poll of journalists working for newspapers, magazines, radio, and television, 44% called themselves Democrats, 16% Republicans.
• In a 1996 poll of 1,037 reporters at 61 newspapers, 61% identified themselves as Democrats, 15% as Republicans.
• In a 2001 Kaiser Family Foundation poll, media professionals were nearly 7 times likelier to call themselves Democrats rather than Republicans.
• A 2014 study by Indiana University's School of Journalism found that just 7.1% of all journalists identified themselves as Republicans, vs, 28.1% who self-identified as Democrats and 50.2% who said they were Independents.

• in a 1981 study of 240 journalists nationwide, 65% identified themselves as liberals, 17% as conservatives.
• In a 1983 study of news reporters, executives, and staffers, 32% identified themselves as liberals, 11% as conservatives.
• In a 1992 study of more than 1,400 journalists, 44% identified themselves as liberals, 22% as conservatives.
• In a 1996 study of Washington bureau chiefs and congressional correspondents, 61% identified themselves as liberals, 9% as conservatives.
• In a 1996 study of 1,037 journalists, the respondents identified themselves as liberals 4 times more frequently than as conservatives. Among journalists working for newspapers with circulations exceeding 50,000, the ratio of liberals to conservatives was 5.4 to 1.
• In a 2004 Pew Research Center study of journalists and media executives, the ratio of self-identified liberals to conservatives was 4.9 to 1.
• In a 2007 Pew Research Center study of journalists and news executives, the ratio was 4 liberals for each conservative.

Research on Media Bias - Discover the Networks

 

[sealybobo]

Conservatives Are Right. The News Media is Very Liberal

And the thing is, conservatives have a point. Study after study has shown that the mainstream media leans left, and that, as economists Tim Groseclose and Jeff Milyo have written, “an almost overwhelming fraction of journalists are liberal.” The extent of this bias, of course, depends on what your definitions of liberal and conservative. And the media has other, arguably more important, biases: towards controversy and producing content that is profitable. But it is safe to say that the median journalist in America is to the left of the median American voter, and that this affects how the news is presented to the public.

The station owners are cons who sensor

 

[GreenBean]

Conservatives Are Right. The News Media is Very Liberal

And the thing is, conservatives have a point. Study after study has shown that the mainstream media leans left, and that, as economists Tim Groseclose and Jeff Milyo have written, “an almost overwhelming fraction of journalists are liberal.” The extent of this bias, of course, depends on what your definitions of liberal and conservative. And the media has other, arguably more important, biases: towards controversy and producing content that is profitable. But it is safe to say that the median journalist in America is to the left of the median American voter, and that this affects how the news is presented to the public.

The station owners are cons who sensor

#STFU Asshole - read on and get educated .... you pathetic half wit

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Easy Observation:
The Press always defends Democrat Presidents and they always attack Republican Presidents.
If a Republican President had abused his power with the IRS, NSA, DOJ and the FBI like Obama did the Press would be apoplectic.
Dossiergate is the political scandal of the century, but the Press is ignoring it because it's Obama.
The Russian Collusion issue is 100% political and the Press can't let it go.