I was wrong about the media
You can look over my past posts here…I’ve really tried to rationalize the apparent left wing bias in the media, claiming that mass media caters to the left in order to sell content.
Over time, I’ve seen more and more evidence that this simply isn’t the case. Capitalism isn’t driving the mass media, political ideology is.
For me, the last straw was the sheer lack of reporting around pornography charges against the former president of the Virginia ACLU. On Google, there were only 21 results. The only major new outlet I could find that carried the story online was the Washington Post. All the others were too small to matter.
There are other examples – the coverage Bush receives, for example. Iraq isn’t doing that bad…we hear only about the bad stuff, nothing about the other 95% of Iraq, which is prospering with our help. Nothing about Bush’s sheparding of the economy from the nose dive left by Clinton, to one of the most powerful economies in US history. Deficit is where it should be, home ownership at an all time high.
Other examples would include, the vengeance with which non-leftists are smeared for even the smallest slight while nothing is said about left wing honeys.
No more giving the media the benefit of the doubt.
Over time, I’ve seen more and more evidence that this simply isn’t the case. Capitalism isn’t driving the mass media, political ideology is.
For me, the last straw was the sheer lack of reporting around pornography charges against the former president of the Virginia ACLU. On Google, there were only 21 results. The only major new outlet I could find that carried the story online was the Washington Post. All the others were too small to matter.
There are other examples – the coverage Bush receives, for example. Iraq isn’t doing that bad…we hear only about the bad stuff, nothing about the other 95% of Iraq, which is prospering with our help. Nothing about Bush’s sheparding of the economy from the nose dive left by Clinton, to one of the most powerful economies in US history. Deficit is where it should be, home ownership at an all time high.
Other examples would include, the vengeance with which non-leftists are smeared for even the smallest slight while nothing is said about left wing honeys.
No more giving the media the benefit of the doubt.
posted by cookies at 8:37 AM
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