Voters: Media Bias Bigger Problem Than Big Money in Politics

[Weatherman2020]

One thing Al Gores Internet has done is allow people to learn the truth and see how biased the Lame Stream Media is.

A Rasmussen Reports poll released on Tuesday confirmed a long-term trend in the attitude of American voters that biased news coverage was one of the worst problems plaguing the political system, even beating out concerns over big money campaign contributions.

The survey found that 47% of respondents named media bias as “a bigger problem than big campaign contributions in politics today,” edging out the 45% who saw campaign contributions as the bigger challenge. The poll also found that an overwhelming 66% of voters thought the press “have too much power and influence over elections.”

 

[Geaux4it]

The media is queer for Obama. Just like they were for Slick Willie. Media by design is liberal.

-Geaux

 

[ScienceRocks]

Weird, you loserterians and your corporate media bend over backwards to attack people like Bernie sanders that would dare attack you cock suckers.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Weird, you loserterians and your corporate media bend over backwards to attack people like Bernie sanders that would dare attack you cock suckers.

 

[TheOldSchool]

One thing Al Gores Internet has done is allow people to learn the truth and see how biased the Lame Stream Media is.

A Rasmussen Reports poll released on Tuesday confirmed a long-term trend in the attitude of American voters that biased news coverage was one of the worst problems plaguing the political system, even beating out concerns over big money campaign contributions.

The survey found that 47% of respondents named media bias as “a bigger problem than big campaign contributions in politics today,” edging out the 45% who saw campaign contributions as the bigger challenge. The poll also found that an overwhelming 66% of voters thought the press “have too much power and influence over elections.”

Lol only because the media tells them that. Dumb, stupid people. Who do they think owns the media anyways?

 

[Jackson]

So, posters are going to believe him when there is no link, yet again? This is a second time he has started a thread without documentation. I claim BS

 

[MisterBeale]

The media is queer for Obama. Just like they were for Slick Willie. Media by design is liberal.

-Geaux

I'm not sure it's necessarily "liberal." If it were liberal in the classical sense, that wouldn't be all bad.

What it is, is internationalist. It definitely is an elitist bent that has an agenda.

For instance, the LaRouch PAC is a very liberal organization that is against internationalists in this country, and like Nader, the establishment press and the Democrats, dislike them both. LaRouch and Nader are both "liberal," but they have more in common when it comes to foreign policy with those Bircher folks on the far right than they do with the press. So you see? The press is not necessarily "liberal."


During the Bush W. administration, the press pushed war with Iraq, it was all on board with that. After 9/11, it never bothered to ask any questions.

In the after math of 9/11, when FEMA and the EPA said it was perfectly fine to engage in the clean up, the press didn't ask any questions, when in reality, that whole area was a toxic waste dumb because of the asbestos. Everyone, including the press, KNEW those towers needed to have that asbestos removed before they crumbled. So why didn't the press say anything? No Hazmat suits for responders? Nothing said for folks coming in? No warnings?

After that, the government had everyone that was a first responder sign a legal release. The press now doesn't cover that. If they were "liberal" as you claim, they would cover that. It is a human justice and civil rights matter.


The reality is though, we are moving towards a global dictatorship, an international police state. When there is an international economic meeting of the G8, if the media were liberal, they would be friendly to the protesters, that is definitely not how it is covered. Business, Government, Power and Control first. People, rights and human interest only if it is good for profits or dividing the plebes second.


What they choose, and choose not to cover does not give them a liberal bias, it gives them an internationalist bias. They have an agenda, that agenda is one of discord and distraction. If you hate liberals, and liberals hate conservatives. . . then they have done their job.

 

[MisterBeale]

So, posters are going to believe him when there is no link, yet again? This is a second time he has started a thread without documentation. I claim BS

Here's your link.

Manufacturing Consent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bear in mind, this guy is a Libertarian Socialist. Some go so far as to call him a Jew Commie. Even he says what you are seeing on your TV is propaganda. IF you won't listen to a liberal professor, who ya gonna listen to?

 

[kiwiman127]

I think Weatherman thinks that hyper-partisan media/blogs are the answer to the MSM. I know we have a large number of posters that live their lives and form 100% of their opinion using hyper-partisan media/blogs. This explains all the bad threads like this one. I have no idea how many times I've come to USMB, looked over quite a few threads based on highly partisan resources, threw my arms up and moved on to Bill Murray's 'the Chive" for humor. There is a difference between humor and insanity, you know.
theCHIVE

 

[MisterBeale]

I think Weatherman thinks that hyper-partisan media/blogs are the answer to the MSM. I know we have a large number of posters that live their lives and form 100% of their opinion using hyper-partisan media/blogs. This explains all the bad threads like this one. I have no idea how many times I've come to USMB, looked over quite a few threads based on highly partisan resources, threw my arms up and moved on to Bill Murray's 'the Chive" for humor. There is a difference between humor and insanity, you know.
theCHIVE

 

[kiwiman127]

I think Weatherman thinks that hyper-partisan media/blogs are the answer to the MSM. I know we have a large number of posters that live their lives and form 100% of their opinion using hyper-partisan media/blogs. This explains all the bad threads like this one. I have no idea how many times I've come to USMB, looked over quite a few threads based on highly partisan resources, threw my arms up and moved on to Bill Murray's 'the Chive" for humor. There is a difference between humor and insanity, you know.
theCHIVE

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Those cute little pictures ^, mirror what anybody with half a brain would do looking over some the of most insane threads/posts that land on USMB.
You actually think normal people think like you do?

 

[SwimExpert]

One thing Al Gores Internet has done is allow people to learn the truth and see how biased the Lame Stream Media is.

A Rasmussen Reports poll released on Tuesday confirmed a long-term trend in the attitude of American voters that biased news coverage was one of the worst problems plaguing the political system, even beating out concerns over big money campaign contributions.

The survey found that 47% of respondents named media bias as “a bigger problem than big campaign contributions in politics today,” edging out the 45% who saw campaign contributions as the bigger challenge. The poll also found that an overwhelming 66% of voters thought the press “have too much power and influence over elections.”

That's funny, because it seems to me that the internet's biggest effect has been to make raging stupidity widely accepted. It used to be that rubbish was confined to clearly identified print tabloid brands. Now, the internet makes it easy for anyone to say any stupid bullshit, dress it up, and quickly disseminate it to tens of thousands of people who will be all too happy to jump up and wave it around.

 

[Agit8r]

two sides of the same coin.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

One thing Al Gores Internet has done is allow people to learn the truth and see how biased the Lame Stream Media is.

A Rasmussen Reports poll released on Tuesday confirmed a long-term trend in the attitude of American voters that biased news coverage was one of the worst problems plaguing the political system, even beating out concerns over big money campaign contributions.

The survey found that 47% of respondents named media bias as “a bigger problem than big campaign contributions in politics today,” edging out the 45% who saw campaign contributions as the bigger challenge. The poll also found that an overwhelming 66% of voters thought the press “have too much power and influence over elections.”

Agreed.

The media has the capability to brainwash people. Just look at the participants here on USMB. They repeat nonsense over and over again, and when you show how they are wrong, they refuse to believe or otherwise ignore it. But you seldom if ever see anybody admit they were wrong about something the MSM brainwashed them into.

Big money only works once somebody (who used big money) gets into office. Even then, it's difficult to prove that legislatures are working on their behalf. This is not to mention that big money goes both ways--not just the Republican's way as MSM brainwashed people into believing.

 

[my2¢]

A competitive media with each claiming their superiority naturally leads me to believe the survey's conclusion itself is reflective of a media bias. Thus having faith in the validity of the survey's result, it leads me to conclude there is no media bias.

 

[turzovka]

Lol only because the media tells them that. Dumb, stupid people. Who do they think owns the media anyways?

What difference does it make who owns the major media outlets? Or are you going to tell me it’s the Jews? Or is it mega billionaires who are really republican? I do not need to know who owns the mainstream media, it is obvious what their agenda is. And guess what? It is not to promote conservatism or honor in this nation, nor is it for the common good.

The mainstream media may very well be in to make money, but that is very much secondary to generating power, dictating who gets into positions of authority and influencing the hearts and minds of a naïve public. And some of those influences tend towards materialism and a total disregard for morals and God. Our media is toxic and more a tool for the devil than anything we can give them credit for. They are surely no watchdog for the people which is what journalism maybe once was or should be.

 

[MisterBeale]

I think Weatherman thinks that hyper-partisan media/blogs are the answer to the MSM. I know we have a large number of posters that live their lives and form 100% of their opinion using hyper-partisan media/blogs. This explains all the bad threads like this one. I have no idea how many times I've come to USMB, looked over quite a few threads based on highly partisan resources, threw my arms up and moved on to Bill Murray's 'the Chive" for humor. There is a difference between humor and insanity, you know.
theCHIVE

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Those cute little pictures ^, mirror what anybody with half a brain would do looking over some the of most insane threads/posts that land on USMB.
You actually think normal people think like you do?

No, you mentioned that this thread referred to a hyper-partisan blog. None could be found. You made a specious claim, where none existed.

I read the thread through, and the only sources linked were a college lecture by noted intellectual, Noam Chomsky, and a stub to a book by him in Wikipedia.

It is a reaction picture to your obtuseness.


As far as "normal" folks thinking like me? Frankly sir, I don't give a flying rats ass what the majority of the public thinks like. The mainstream news is organized and broadcast toward a ninth grade education level, so it really doesn't concern me.

The majority of the public is convinced it is the truth. So I really don't care.

 

[Weatherman2020]

A competitive media with each claiming their superiority naturally leads me to believe the survey's conclusion itself is reflective of a media bias. Thus having faith in the validity of the survey's result, it leads me to conclude there is no media bias.

Which validates you are brainwashed.

Democratic Party received a total donation of $1,020,816, given by 1,160 employees of the three major broadcast television networks (NBC, CBS, ABC), while the Republican Party received only $142,863 via 193 donations.[45] Both of these figures represent donations made in 2008.
Media bias in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Weatherman2020]

So, posters are going to believe him when there is no link, yet again? This is a second time he has started a thread without documentation. I claim BS

You are simply dumber than a bag of hammers. It says Rassmussen Reports. Pull your head out of your ass and go read it if you want.

 

[hadit]

A competitive media with each claiming their superiority naturally leads me to believe the survey's conclusion itself is reflective of a media bias. Thus having faith in the validity of the survey's result, it leads me to conclude there is no media bias.

Of course there is media bias because it is impossible for the people involved to completely and dispassionately tell the story without their bias coming through in ways from the stories the choose to tell to the ways they tell the stories. And that's fine as long as there are differing viewpoints among the people telling the stories. What we see in today's major media are people all with nearly identical viewpoints who literally cannot see their own herd mentality. A prime example is the word "gravitas". No one in the media ever said that word until Dick Cheney was picked for VP, then all of a sudden every talking head was repeating it. That alone tells you that they all get their stories from the same source and even use the same words. The trick is to acknowledge that they all have a bias and get the story from multiple viewpoints. If one source is reporting it while another refuses to even acknowledge its existence, there's bias.