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Guest post by: Mars!
No matter what seems to happen now people still want to quote the press about things political. I have said again and again the press cannot be trusted, they refuse to do their jobs and in most cases are working actively against this country. Polls are faked, stories are manipulated, and science is rigged. But, as I read threads and info, bam, somebody is repeating a poll or story from a major media outlet.
Well, while cruising the net today I came across this article. It sums up what I have already said many times, in a way that puts me to shame. I recommend everyone take a look at this article and see just a few of the ways the media has sold its soul to evil.
http://www.westernjournalism.com/top-50-examples-liberal-media-bias/
The Top 50 Liberal Media Bias Examples
Let’s face it, liberal media bias has been around since there have been liberals to do the “reporting” of the news. But this fact should surprise no one. After all, the news media has always been filled with bias of one type or another. In fact, there was a time when American customers of the news knew exactly which newspapers sported which point of view. It was taken for granted that one newspaper supported one side and another newspaper a different side.
Liberal Bias is Prevalent in the Mainstream Media
But in the late 1950s and early 1960s that all changed. Suddenly the folks in the news media began to present themselves as unbiased pursuers of “the truth.” Gone was the out-in-front bias and instead the media cloaked itself in a new air of detachment, a new just-the-facts mien.
This new era in media conceit coincided with the advent of a liberal mindset that took on the weight of the world, a new era in which liberals felt that their ideals rose above God, tradition and country.
Suddenly a journalist’s work was divorced from the trade in local news and became a profession increasingly assuming a national and ideological agenda, one fueled by journalism schools and professors that began to disgorge university trained “journalists” with a left-wing agenda. These people then went forth to replace the grizzled local reporters that were wedded to their local political culture. This new wave of “journalists” did not want to report what was going on in their local news as much as they wanted to “save the world.”
In pursuit of that left-wing national agenda — if not a leftist world agenda — “reporters” began to spin all news stories, from the most mundane stories to the hottest national news, toward a left-wing agenda. These “journalists” slipped in bias in every way they could to push the leftist’s meme.
For decades this left-wing agenda drove the coverage of the news. Then in the 1980s talk radio came and conservative talkers began to point out this obvious bias. Even so the bias continued unabated.
Only one thing has begun to turn the tide — or at least succeed in educating news consumers — against liberal media bias. Since the advent of the New Media, Internet forums, blogs, podcasts, and on-line news sources, what I call the Old Media has had a much tougher time getting away with the bias that has plagued its work since the 1960s.
But that won’t stop them from trying!
Certainly any list will be somewhat subjective, and some may quibble with what is and is not on the list. But following is, if not the top 50 examples of media bias, 50 egregious and well-known examples of it.
So, without further ado, and in no particular order except a loose historical timeline, here are some of the top 50 examples of liberal media bias.
As a service to people of weak constitution I took it upon myself to remove the picture of Rachel Maddow from the post intro.
Some of the highlights:
Better Red Than Informed
Castro’s Cheerleaders
The Vietnam War
DDT Ban
Edward Kennedy
Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas Vs. Elana Kagan
1995 Oklahoma City Bombing
Media Falsely Reports Bush Loss in Florida In 2000
KKK Double Standard
MemogateThat’s just the first 10. For Rodan there is this always popular hit:
20). Obama as Messiah
Read through the 50 and lets see what other ones we can personally add to the list.
Addendum:
Here’s a list of famous donors in the 2008 presidential election. Take a look at the names and the numbers.
http://www.newsmeat.com/2008a-list.php–Mars
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