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I love the myth of liberal media.
media now serves the corporate interests. which has been the province of the
right since 1980 at the very least.
quick media bias quiz:
given iran-contra, and Monica lewinsky - which president did the media
skewer and which did it treat with kid gloves?
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> Subject: [CTRL] Yes, the Press Is Biased, But Itıs Also Really Bad
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> Yes, the Press Is Biased, But Itıs Also Really Bad
> by Nicholas von Hoffman
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> I gather that CBS management still hasnıt decided how Bernard Goldberg went
> bad, or if he was a mole planted among its correspondents, or what the hell
> happened to Bernie, who for years and years was one of its dray-horse TV
> correspondents, grinding out the pap with the rest and the best. From the CBS
> point of view, all of a sudden Bernie went screwy, hitched up with the
> homophobes and other rightie-tighties.
>
> What happened was that out of the blue, dependable, team-playing Bernie
> published an op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal, the thrust of which was
> that the TV networks and the likes of The New York Times are tilted leftward
> and suffused with a liberal bias. To Dan Rather at CBS and, apparently, to
> the liberal panjandrums at the other networks, Bernie had pulled a 9/11 on
> them, a sneak attack, a stab in the back.
>
> Bernie says heıd been begging his colleagues and bosses for years to face up
> to the fact that, politically speaking, they were operating an electronic,
> left-leaning Tower of Pisa. It was, Bernie avers, only after years of having
> people look at him and say, "What, me lefty?" that Bernie went public.
>
> To the readers of The Wall Street Journal, it could not have come as new news
> that the three old-line networks were stocked with fuzzy-headed liberals.
> Nonetheless, from the time (February 1996) of the Journal article forward,
> Bernie began switching careers from TV reporter to controversialist,
> culminating in his book, Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort
> the News. Incidentally, there is another well-recommended book out on this
> topic: Coloring the News, by William McGowan. The McGowan book, a more
> in-depth and sober look at bias, contains some doozies of examples of stories
> so disturbing to the liberal gestalt that The Times solved the problem by
> simply not covering them, and, indeed, when it comes to bias, the most
> underhanded form is silence.
>
> The fact of liberal media bias drives a few people, of whom Bernie is
> evidently one, absolutely up the wall and down the other side, but I think
> for many others it is just something you live with. If youıre smart, you know
> itıs there and you view or read accordingly. Bernie, Bernie, Bernie, you are
> not exposing liberal bias to the light of day for the first time. Indeed,
> television itself acknowledges it and uses it to provide viewers with some
> marvelous entertainment. If you havenıt seen any of the episodes in the cable
> series Beggars and Choosers, youıll do yourself a favor by dialing on this
> funny, funny comedy built around life in the West Coast headquarters of a
> major television network. You will see the caving in to screech-owl feminism,
> the ass-kissing of ethnic-minority-rights racketeers (which leads them to
> create a new show called, I think, The Woos of Weehawken), the kowtowing to
> preposterous claims of political homosexuality, the whole nine yards of
> craven, cotton-headed, automatic reflex liberalism. The show was conceived by
> the late Brandon Tartikoff, a television executive who stood out from his
> peers not only by virtue of his talents but by virtue of his virtue.
>
> If Bernie were to prevail and the liberal bias were to be expunged from
> network news, we would not be measurably better off, because biased news is
> probably better than no news and no news is most of what those programs serve
> up. Even the right-wing Fox News Channel operation is irritatingly short on
> information, biased or otherwise. Like millions of others, I stopped watching
> the major broadcast networksı news years ago. Having a dish, I am lucky
> enough to get the BBC in America and Canadian news channels, where they keep
> the lifestyle blather, the inane human-interest stories and the celebrity
> interviews second to imparting information.
>
> The billionaires who own and run the TV networks arenıt liberals and donıt
> seem to be much concerned about bias on their airwaves, doubtless because
> whatever bias there is, when it comes to the important stuff like pushing
> Wall Street and a unilateral foreign policy, itıs a bias they agree with.
> Bernie would have served the cause better if heıd tried to place the bias
> question within the larger one of the concentration of media ownership. The
> Jan. 7-14 issue of The Nation describes how so few control so much. The issue
> comes replete with a chart showing the 10 largest media companies who own
> popular American culture. But count your blessings. In Italy there are three
> private television networks and one major government network. The three
> private ones are owned by Silvio Berlusconi, and guess what? Heıs the prime
> minister, so maybe he has a little influence over the government network also.
>
> When Henry Luce, the man who invented Time, Life, Fortune, Sports
> Illustrated, etc., and a cast-iron right-winger, was asked why he hired so
> many lefties, he supposedly said that Republicans canıt write. That was many
> years ago. Today, the lefties canıt write either. The ones you see on a
> channel like CNN are dribble heads. The news girlsand I use the word
> advisedlyare very cute, and I presume the news boys are the same to female
> eyes, but their mouths are full of malapropisms and their heads of synthetic
> fiber. When you hire for looks, thatıs what you get.
>
> If you complain about anything to a media executive, which you shouldnıt
> bother to do, you will get one of two answers: 1) Donıt shoot the messenger,
> and 2) We get attacked by both the left and the right, so we must be doing
> something right. Oh, yeah?
>
> Left, right and center, people by the tens of millions have stopped watching
> network news. And that may be a healthy thing if it betokens skepticism,
> disbelief and an effort to find out for oneıs self.
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