State Run, Taxpayer Funded, News Service.

[RobDownSouth]

I don't see what that proves. I've worked on two Republican campaigns in my lifetime, and I'm married to a Democrat. None of which precludes me from getting a job in media and being unbiased.

Now if you showed me actual articles written by those people where they ignored evidence or lied to push their political agenda, then you'd have something.

It makes sense to Queebait/CucumberLover, perhaps if you wore a tinfoil hat it'd make sense to you too!

 

[Sean Renaud]

The only thing a chart like that says to me is that not only is the 1% real but when you actually take a second it's really more like the .001% when you get to a certain level. And of course they all know each other and have all worked together. Have you ever seen those charts that show how few people actually own the hundreds of channels on television and other media things?

The FCC alone is way too big, and has way too much influence on media.

What precisely does the FCC do that is too big. I'm still a young person and I'm often doing double takes and wondering how the fuck they let that shit on television.

 

[phrodeau]

We do not have a watchdog press:

Susan Rice blamed the Benghazi attack on a Youtube video? When did that happen?

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

I asked you for any that leaned conservative.

Fail.

You claimed that NPR "advocates for the left". I showed specific instances where that is not only untrue, but blatantly untrue. I then listed NPR's programming and asked for you to point out those that "advocate for the left". Apparently you can't. It's no surprise, those who repeatedly bash NPR can never actually point out journalistic bias.

As for their promoting center-right (I'm still wondering how you figure they're a majority but that's neither here nor there) ideas. NPR has been criticized by the left for reliance on conservative think tanks, and for their pro-war stance during coverage of anti-Iraq war protests. Then there's the aforementioned coverage of Israel/Palestine which BOTH sides have claimed are biased. Which tells me that they're just about where they should be, pandering to neither group.

Surveys and follow-up focus groups conducted by the Tarrance Group and Lake Snell Perry & Associates have indicated that, "The majority of the U.S. adult population does not believe that the news and information programming on public broadcasting is biased. The plurality of Americans indicate that there is no apparent bias one way or the other, while approximately two-in-ten detect a liberal bias and approximately one-in-ten detect a conservative bias."

 

[Sean Renaud]

^^^^ Citation is needed.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

^^^^ Citation is needed.

You claimed that NPR "advocates for the left". I showed specific instances where that is not only untrue, but blatantly untrue. I then listed NPR's programming and asked for you to point out those that "advocate for the left". Apparently you can't. It's no surprise, those who repeatedly bash NPR can never actually point out journalistic bias.

As for their promoting center-right (I'm still wondering how you figure they're a majority but that's neither here nor there) ideas. NPR has been criticized by the left for reliance on conservative think tanks, and for their pro-war stance during coverage of anti-Iraq war protests. Then there's the aforementioned coverage of Israel/Palestine which BOTH sides have claimed are biased. Which tells me that they're just about where they should be, pandering to neither group.

Surveys and follow-up focus groups conducted by the Tarrance Group and Lake Snell Perry & Associates have indicated that, "The majority of the U.S. adult population does not believe that the news and information programming on public broadcasting is biased. The plurality of Americans indicate that there is no apparent bias one way or the other, while approximately two-in-ten detect a liberal bias and approximately one-in-ten detect a conservative bias."

Happy?

 

[Hard_Rom]

State run taxpayer funded news service!? Yeah so what? It's called public broadcasting. Happens all over the world in some form or another. Not all systems have state owned corporations like Canada (CBC), Australia (ABC) and the UK (BBC). No one can call any of the actual state run corporations named biased. You want bias, watch Fox. Most governments funnel money to media. There are universal values across left/right that gov money can support. Free speech is media's right to tell what news will sell more.

 

[CandiCame]

I shit you not.

Link

Link to CNN

This just says that they hired 2 guys to write press releases and run a website. And that they can sell the stories to news outlets. And that they're making $50,000 a year each. So... I don't understand why I or anyone else should care. This sounds like something that would have, conceivably already been happening. Why do I care?

 

[Sean Renaud]

Happy?

Quite.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Here was somebody fired by NPR for not toeing their political line: http://www.npr.org/blogs/ombudsman/2010/10/21/130713285/npr-terminates-contract-with-juan-williams

 

[CandiCame]

Here was somebody fired by NPR for not toeing their political line: http://www.npr.org/blogs/ombudsman/2010/10/21/130713285/npr-terminates-contract-with-juan-williams

Being racist isn't exactly a political view. The comment he made, "I mean, look, Bill, I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous." will get you fired from ANY job. You can't say that and work in a public job. That's not politics. That's racism.

Edit: Pretty good rule of thumb. If you start to say something, and you feel that morally you need to add the preface, "I'm not a bigot but..."

You should probably just go ahead and close your mouth right there.

 

[badbabysitter]

Here was somebody fired by NPR for not toeing their political line: http://www.npr.org/blogs/ombudsman/2010/10/21/130713285/npr-terminates-contract-with-juan-williams

Dude, that would get you fired from a McDonalds

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

Here was somebody fired by NPR for not toeing their political line: http://www.npr.org/blogs/ombudsman/2010/10/21/130713285/npr-terminates-contract-with-juan-williams

No, he was fired for going on FoxNews and saying disparaging bigoted things. His comments reflected badly on his employer and they terminated his contract.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

Dude, that would get you fired from a McDonalds

Probably not from FauxNews though.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

No, he was fired for going on FoxNews and saying disparaging bigoted things. His comments reflected badly on his employer and they terminated his contract.

And its true. Muslims play for Islam exclusively.

If youre out in the jungle and hear something roaring and crashing thru the trees you don't whip out your calculator and do a Baye's Risk Assessment, you haul ass.

 

[Que]

Being racist isn't exactly a political view. The comment he made, "I mean, look, Bill, I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous." will get you fired from ANY job. You can't say that and work in a public job. That's not politics. That's racism.

Edit: Pretty good rule of thumb. If you start to say something, and you feel that morally you need to add the preface, "I'm not a bigot but..."

You should probably just go ahead and close your mouth right there.

True.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Explain to me again how Muslim is racist when its a religion?

 

[CandiCame]

Explain to me again how Muslim is racist when its a religion?

No one has time to explain to you how social structures like religion, ethnicity and race overlap. That's like an entire class of worth of information. Just trust literally the entire rest of the world on this or look it up with the Google.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Dude, that would get you fired from a McDonalds

*snicker*

 

[KingOrfeo]

We do not have a watchdog press:

Was the picture any different under any other POTUS? Political DC is a village, everybody knows everybody.

 

[unregistered]

 

[unregistered]

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

Yes the "picture" has been different under every other President. The current MSM has no right to the terms "free press."

You're a fucking dupe who's bought into the whole MSM bullshit spoon fed to you by the far right.

http://www.anklejive.com/Assets/ProductImages/The_First_Thing_A_Cult_Does_Is_Claim_Everyone_Else_Is_Lying_To_You.jpg

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

Not really, he was fired for having and expressing an opinion that didn't reflect the cowardice that runs through the veins of his liberal employers. Employers who are unworthy of the blessings of free speech, and a free press.

As has already been pointed out, if you feel the need to preface a statement with "I'm not a bigot but," then you really are and should just shut the fuck up right there.

What he said would have gotten his ass canned anywhere but maybe FauxNews or Breitbart.

 

[Disgustipated]

"The MSM is all powerful!"

"The MSM has no power at all!"