Tell me this BIASED reporting DOES NOT affect political opinion???

[ClosedCaption]

Mainstream media is biased.
Especially the three networks.
You can't help but be somewhat biased when the majority of the people that work there vote for Dem's.


[Update: September 25] Censored! IRS Scandal Being Buried by Big Three Networks | NewsBusters

Why do you guys think the employees run the show and not the owners?

Where did I say that employees run the show?
I said the majority of people who work for the mainstream news vote for Dems.
The owners are included in that.

Your evidence is where? I'd like to see this voting record you have for the owners. I'll wait.

 

[bendog]

But wait, wasn't the media paying too much attention to Christie when he was palling around like BFF with Obama, and riding in the helicopter?

MSM is in the biz of entertainment, not news reporting, but have some cheese with the whine, heathcare. LOL

 

[thereisnospoon]

But I thought the news and money doesnt effect public opinions? Or is that only when talking about Citizens United?

In your little liberal world, people's opinions ARE the news.
When intelligent people finally have their say in reporting the news, the polls are taken to take the pulse of the country regarding the news.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Because the Bridge scandal is real and was new at the time, the IRS scandal is old as dirt and is a hoax anyway

You libbies keep trying to convince yourselves of that...
The reporting is biased and the IRS scandal most certainly will be a campaign issue

 

[healthmyths]

But I thought the news and money doesnt effect public opinions? Or is that only when talking about Citizens United?

Who says that? I've always maintained that what is portrayed in popular media and on the news effects opinions and behavior. I thought that was obvious.

Well the right tells everyone that it doesnt but ONLY when discussing Citizens United. They say that money, the media etc doesnt change or effect anyones opinion

Unless they want to ***** about a NBC or something...then it does. Somehow, thats different

Well if those of us conservatives SAY Citizens United,etc. doesn't affect we are totally contradicting where our businesses spend advertising dollars!
Led by the retail and automotive industries,
companies spent a total of $131 billion for advertising in the US last year, up 6.5% from 2009, according to AdAge's new national advertising spending database update.
Read more: The 12 Companies That Spend The Most On Advertising - Business Insider

So if we evil conservatives agree advertising influences behavior, then surely these network news NOT presenting IRS but a local story about Christie???

Reality is billions are spent in advertising because it works!

Last year, PwC estimated that advertisers spent $63.8 billion on TV, about 75% more than they did on online ads and more than they did on all other traditional media combined.
Data Dive: US TV Ad Spend and Influence (Updated ? Q3 2013 Data)

So again... logic would say that ADVERTISING on TV works as nearly half of all ad dollars spent on TV.
So how then would any one think that when the network news shows ONLY 3 minutes on IRS WHY???? Other then bias!!!

 

[peach174]

Why do you guys think the employees run the show and not the owners?

Where did I say that employees run the show?
I said the majority of people who work for the mainstream news vote for Dems.
The owners are included in that.

Your evidence is where? I'd like to see this voting record you have for the owners. I'll wait.

It isn't rocket science.
Media Bias Basics

 

[healthmyths]

Mainstream media is biased.
Especially the three networks.
You can't help but be somewhat biased when the majority of the people that work there vote for Dem's.
[Update: September 25] Censored! IRS Scandal Being Buried by Big Three Networks | NewsBusters

Why do you guys think the employees run the show and not the owners?

Well I for one have had my experiences with "journalism" and know that THESE people should know as they are part of the MSM/Networks!
If you are a really honest person you have to ask why would these people make these comments??

Editor Newsweek Evan Thomas ..quote:
"There is a liberal bias. It's demonstrable. You look at some statistics. About 85 percent of the reporters who cover the White House vote Democratic,
they have for a long time.There is a, particularly at the networks, at the lower levels, among the editors and the so-called infrastructure, there is a liberal bias.
There is a liberal bias at Newsweek, the magazine I work for -most of the people who work at Newsweek live on the upper West Side in New York and they have a liberal bias....[ABC White House reporter] Brit Hume's bosses are liberal and they're always quietly denouncing him as being a right-wing nut."
- Newsweek Washington Bureau Chief Evan Thomas.

Evan Thomas Editor of NewsWeek's quotes Well, our job is to bash the president, that's what we do." --
Evan Thomas responding to a question on whether the media's unfair to Bush on the TV talk show Inside Washington,
February 2, 2007.Newsweek's Evan Thomas: 'Our Job Is To Bash the President' | NewsBusters

..........But when it comes to Obama ... any bashing here???

COLOR="Blue"]I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God." [/COLOR]
Evan Thomas on Hardball, Newsweek?s Evan Thomas: Obama Is ?Sort of God? | NewsBusters

"In your recent piece about Thomas Edsall, you denounce his assertion that Democrats outnumber Republicans in newsrooms by 15 or 25 to 1.
"Well, I work in such a newsroom and have worked at others. I know from experience that this is a pretty darn accurate estimate. Exaggerated, perhaps, but not by a whole heckuva lot."
Hiawatha Bray Technology Reporter Boston Globe
Thomas' assertion of 85% reporters vote Democratic is backed up by:
"MSNBC.com identified 144 journalists who made political contributions from 2004 through the start of the 2008 campaign, according to the public records of the Federal Election Commission. Most of the newsroom checkbooks leaned to the left: 125 journalists gave to Democrats and liberal causes. Only 17 gave to Republicans. Two gave to both parties."
Journalists give campaign cash - politics | NBC News

Halperin the Political Director of ABC saying:
"The reality of how [liberal bias] affects media coverage is outrageous." "Most of my colleagues, as you know, are in denial about [liberal bias], or blind to it."
Another study found that ABC News had aired 55 positive stories on Obama's health-care policy compared to just 18 negative stories.
(Source: Business and Media Institute - Jun 2009) Interesting isn't that 73% of these Obama care stories are positive... )

OWNERS don't have any influences which has always been the myth people have believed!

 

[peach174]

The media people themselves admit it.
Media Bias Basics

“The elephant in the newsroom is our narrowness. Too often, we wear liberalism on our sleeve and are intolerant of other lifestyles and opinions....We’re not very subtle about it at this paper: If you work here, you must be one of us. You must be liberal, progressive, a Democrat. I’ve been in communal gatherings in The Post, watching election returns, and have been flabbergasted to see my colleagues cheer unabashedly for the Democrats.”
— Washington Post “Book World” editor Marie Arana in a contribution to the Post’s “daily in-house electronic critiques,” as quoted by Post media reporter Howard Kurtz in an October 3, 2005 article.

 

[usmcstinger]

The media (including Hollywood) is a vast bed of seething hypocrisy. On the one hand, they piously proclaim that portraying sex, violence, foul language, etc, has absolutely no effect on behavior. On the other hand, untold billions of dollars are spent on advertising and product placement precisely because they DO have an effect on behavior. TV talking heads know this to be true, and ARE shaping the news to fit their built-in biases.

The Hollywood liberals have very little knowledge of Economics and just about every subject they speak about.

 

[Siete]

and Bill just spent 3:34 minutes railing about it ...

 

[ClosedCaption]

Where did I say that employees run the show?
I said the majority of people who work for the mainstream news vote for Dems.
The owners are included in that.

Your evidence is where? I'd like to see this voting record you have for the owners. I'll wait.

It isn't rocket science.
Media Bias Basics

I'm sorry do you know what I mean when I say "owners"? Your link didnt cover that part. Are you ok?

 

[peach174]

Your evidence is where? I'd like to see this voting record you have for the owners. I'll wait.

It isn't rocket science.
Media Bias Basics

I'm sorry do you know what I mean when I say "owners"? Your link didnt cover that part. Are you ok?

Are you trying to say that GE, Time Warner CBS, Viacom and Walt Disney don't vote for Dems, when they give huge contributions to them.

 

[ClosedCaption]

It isn't rocket science.
Media Bias Basics

I'm sorry do you know what I mean when I say "owners"? Your link didnt cover that part. Are you ok?

Are you trying to say that GE, Time Warner CBS, Viacom and Walt Disney don't vote for Dems, when they give huge contributions to them.

No what I'm saying is you said the owners vote dem. I said prove it. You didnt.

What I'm saying is where is your proof?

 

[hadit]

But I thought the news and money doesnt effect public opinions? Or is that only when talking about Citizens United?

Who says that? I've always maintained that what is portrayed in popular media and on the news effects opinions and behavior. I thought that was obvious.

Well the right tells everyone that it doesnt but ONLY when discussing Citizens United. They say that money, the media etc doesnt change or effect anyones opinion

Unless they want to ***** about a NBC or something...then it does. Somehow, thats different

I've hadn't seen anyone try to make that point until you just did.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Why don't you conservatives dismiss O'Reilly as a biased source the same way you dismiss mediamatters as a biased source when they do stories about conservative bias in the media?

 

[NYcarbineer]

Chris Christie has happily made himself a media celebrity over the years and as a result, stories about him have heightened commercial appeal, and therefore, on a commercial network, he's going to get disproportionate coverage.

Careful what you wish for.

 

[peach174]

I'm sorry do you know what I mean when I say "owners"? Your link didnt cover that part. Are you ok?

Are you trying to say that GE, Time Warner CBS, Viacom and Walt Disney don't vote for Dems, when they give huge contributions to them.

No what I'm saying is you said the owners vote dem. I said prove it. You didnt.

What I'm saying is where is your proof?

I put it up, you refuse to see it.
If you think that just anyone can get actual voting records on any individual, let alone well known people you live in a different world than the rest of us.

Warren Buffet CEO of General Electric has gone public about his. He is very definitely a Democrat.
Most CEO's say that it is a personal and private matter.
Surveys say that the media is mostly for Dem's.

Quit trying to play the Semantics word game, the media support Dems and have more employees who are Dems.

 

[Rozman]

I was changing channels recently and one of the evening MSNBC shows was still
covering the bridge scandal...

 

[peach174]

I was changing channels recently and one of the evening MSNBC shows was still
covering the bridge scandal...

Yep

And you know that if we had a Republican President and this IRS thing happened under them that it would be blasted night and day all over the papers and mainstream news.
Not on page 19.

 

[ClosedCaption]

Are you trying to say that GE, Time Warner CBS, Viacom and Walt Disney don't vote for Dems, when they give huge contributions to them.

No what I'm saying is you said the owners vote dem. I said prove it. You didnt.

What I'm saying is where is your proof?

I put it up, you refuse to see it.

Is that what you say when you post the wrong link? That I didnt see it but you couldnt quote, link or prove it.

FAIL