Here is one particular example of that: how major news organizations forgot their own investigative reporting on the subject of the spying by UN weapons inspectors in Iraq. As a result, most Americans thought that Saddam had used some pretext to kick the weapons inspectors out of Iraq in the late 90s, which made it look like he really had something to hide. The actual fact is that the inspectors were not kicked out but left when the U.S. and Britain were going to do military strikes…These military strikes were admittedly in response to Iraq being uncooperative with the inspectors but that lack of cooperation was because of factually-true gripes they had that inspectors were indeed serving as military spies for the U.S. and Britain.
This is why the fact (that we learned after the 2003 Iraq war) that Saddam ended up not really having anything to hide turned out to be such a surprise to most Americans except the few of us on the Left who read FAIR for actual reality-based reporting.
And, worse yet, Dick Cheney then noted on TV that even the New York Times is saying this, when of course, they were both getting the same information from the same lying source.
Here’s another example from FAIR from just the past couple of days of the “Left-wing media”. It’s kind of amusing. (Worth reading this take on it too.)
One wonders why AP / USAToday would not bother to get any sort of expert opinion on this. I am a physicist but my specific knowledge of nuclear physics is about as low as one could possibly imagine and it took me well less than a minute to find the error in the graph (admittedly once I had read that there was an error).
Hey, the unemployment numbers are out and they look very promising. Beat expectations and down to the lowest rate in years. This is important news regardless of what side of the aisle you sit on.
My cite is to look at the lead story of every single news organization (except Fox, which isn’t reporting this anywhere on it’s front page for some reason).
This is terrific evidence. I’ve been looking for support. Even the Washington Times, an extremely conservative newspaper, has the unemployment rate story prominent on its home page. Likewise the Chicago Tribune and the Orlando sentinel, two other conservative papers. And of course ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and almost every major paper I looked at, has the story.
Who doesn’t? Fox News and the New York Post, both Murdoch properties.
What’s even funnier is that the only jobs related story on the front page is that planned layoffs are the highest since May. Are they talking about the post holiday layoffs? Ridiculous, I don’t know how anybody can defend them.
Ha! I just looked on the foxnews front page for the jobles numbers.
It’s not the mainheadline (“FEMA Workers Told to ‘Sightsee’ For Days as Sandy Victims Struggled”). It’s not listed below that as one of their three “Exclusive” stories.
Found it! In the next section of their homepage, listed under “Latest News,” it is listed in the 16th and final position behind “George Zimmerman sues NBC over edited 911 call,” and “Michigan GOP approve right to work amid protests.”
But here’s the kicker, the actual link to the jobless rate story: “Jobless rate dips to 7.7 percent, economy vulnerable”. Love it.
We had relatives stop in during Thanksgiving, and my cousin who always has had nothing but kind words for my elderly mother repeatedly told her that she was stupid and brainwashed because she voted for Obama.
Jobs numbers out again. Nice, but not as fantastic as the last month’s numbers, which Foxnews.com saw no need to report on. But, still a top story on every news site.
Fox, at least this time because it is somewhat less rosy, is actually reporting it (at the bottom of their news, with an small headline that reads “Unemployment rate steady at 7.8 percent in December” without noting that 155,000 jobs were added).
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: FOX News and Talk Radio NEVER would have gained the following that they have if the Mainstream Media had done its damn job and simply reported the news instead of slanting it and disguising left wing editorials as news. Fox News commentators are no worse than liberal commentators, are they? That being said, if nobody believes me about the left wing bias, then I cannot convince anyone although I do suggest that you read “Bias” by Bernard Goldberg. Yes I know that he is a Fox News contributor but he worked at CBS for 15 years and saw it all.
Your post consisted entirely of unsubstantiated opinion (except for a factual statement about Goldberg). zoid’s response can be viewed in exactly the same vein, pure opinion. Because “liberal bias” is itself a biased judgement, an opinion. We have no rigid metric for defining “liberal” (some people have even started to claim that it is actually a sort of synonym for glibertarian), so whatever you perceive as a bias is absolutely nothing more than what you perceive.
Media is a business, working for businesses (advertisers). The fundamental agenda of business does not coincide with what most would consider a “liberal” (left-ish) agenda. Hence, it is illogical to imagine that the media business would have a bias that conflicts with their fundamental agenda, suggestions that it would have a conflicted bias simply sound delusional.
In many regards you’re comparing apples to oranges. There’s no real comparison between conservative talk radio and the misnamed Mainstream Media. Is there liberal bias? I think so, because journalists tend to be liberal more often than not and personal preference will influence content. There 's also the issue of media outlets , being concerned about profit, doing lazy, superficial, contrived conflict and sensationalism rather than informative relevant journalism. The issue is IMO, that Fox {or conservative talk radio} didn’t come along to present an honest alternative and conservative view on events. There agenda was to distort and offer propaganda from the beginning. They’ve done so consistently , not to inform thier viewers but to pander to thier insercurities and conservative views with dishonest and emotional content.