A liberal media is comical to anyone who lives in the real world, C_Clayton_Jones said it above in post #10, if one's eyes were open all you need to do is consider a corporate owned entity is not going to shoot itself in the foot. Imagine for instance a serious, ongoing story of the effect Walmart has on its workers and the economy while the family make billions, much of it through strong arm tactics.
And if you need more proof, you only have to consider how many stories focus deeply on issues that should be important to all Americans, but are not even covered: outsourcing by the major corporations, NAFTA's real results, poverty in Appalachian or remote places in America, inner city deterioration, loss of manufacturing, the real impact of deregulation, tax support for foreign companies that build here but send the profits home, lack of union participation, embargoes on American products to say, Japan while they import 200 autos for every one American import, trade deficits due to local protections that Americans falsely believe is a free market, the enormous disparities in educational opportunities, excessive corporate pay for even failure, any need to list more?
One has to turn their eyes from ideological based, mostly corporate, or political apologies and finger pointing, and think who is supported by this story, is it the people, the workers,or the politician and their financial backers, or is it simply the corporations. Most people only read and believe what fits their personal narrative, getting outside that narrative is difficult for most. Impossible for many.
Is there any liberal media? Harper's magazine and maybe Mother Jones would be liberal in my view. The New York Times or Washington Post are not. See link below on NYT. Others that lean liberal or community rather than corporate, or ideology focused are mostly magazines or blogs.
An occasional comment does not make media something it cannot be.
And even the sacred, presumably liberal NYT get consistently criticised, see here:
NYTimes eXaminer*|*An antidote to the "paper of record"
From my post linked below: "I won't buy a socialist car, which means I won't be buying a GM or Chrysler car for as long as the U.S. government owns huge blocks of the companies." Hugh Hewitt, conservative commentator
One wonders if Hugh Hewitt accepts postal mail from the socialists or does he drive on the roads of socialists? Ed from the 'Ed Show' said the only reasonable response to this hatred of an American president, 'it made him feel like vomiting.' Doesn't Hewitt broadcast over a socialistic network? How low can these people go? Hurt Americans over ideological narrow-mindedness. Wingnuts are sad Americans, sadder humans.
"Throughout the nineteenth century, the loans which financed large American capital investment programs, mounted by private consortia, were continually defaulted on.
The history of the American railroads is a history of default. More specifically, the history of American capitalism is one of default. This happened in a spectacular manner during the Panics of 1837, 1857, 1873, 1892-93 and 1907. None of this reneging happened in the civilized manner organized by a Solon or a Sully. Rather it involved a panic and a crash, which created massive bankruptcies, which in turn wiped out massive debts. Because of the disordered way in which each ripping up of obligations came, the result was always a short period of widespread depression before the cleansed economy took off again with renewed force. In the Panic of 1892-93 alone, four thousand banks and fourteen thousand commercial enterprises collapsed. In other words, the nonpayment of debt was central to the construction of the United States.... The great depressions of the last hundred and fifty years can be seen as the default mechanisms of middle-class societies. Depressions free the citizens by making the paper worthless. The method was and is awkward and painful, particularly for the poor, but it destroys the paper chains and permits a new equilibrium to be built out of the pain and disorder of collapse.... One of the most surprising innovations of the late twentieth century has been not only the rationalization of speculation but, beyond that, the attachment of moral value, with vaguely religious origins, to the repayment of debts. This probably has something to do with the insertion of God as an official supporter of capitalism and democracy." p403 John Ralston Saul, 'Voltaire's Bastards'
'Contrary To GOP Claims, Small Businesses Say Taxes And Regulation Aren’t Holding Back Hiring'
Contrary To GOP Claims, Small Businesses Say Taxes And Regulation Aren't Holding Back Hiring | ThinkProgress
http://www.usmessageboard.com/media/78547-conservative-media-hates-america.html
still here:
Head Strong: Boycotting Chrysler and GM is a bad road - smerconish.com
