Democracy Alive and Kicking in America

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by DanS
I refuse to read anything by Huffington. What a blow-hard.

She was everyone's (the CA Rep party's) darling when her hubby tried to buy a Senate seat here. She didn't seem to have her reputation suffer too much until she started occasionally biting the proverbial hands that feed.

Besides, Dan, what political editorialist or talk show or news panel show isn't a blowhard?

[Zkribbler]

Aw come on: Look at the political shows on regularly on TV.

If there is one moderator: it's a conservative.
If there are two: the main one is conservative, the side kick is liberal.
If there's a panel: usually one's a liberal, the rest are all conservative.

This morning on Fox News, four panelist were all complaining because the whistleblowers were named as Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" and not George Bush (who was named in 2000). That doesn't sound like a liberal drumbeat to me.

About 90-95% of the radio talk show hosts are conservative.

So the liberals get one special and two newspapers and OMG they're controlling the media. Give me a friggin break

[monkspider]

Another great article
Che, you're on a roll.

[Shi Huangdi]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
Aw come on: Look at the political shows on regularly on TV.

If there is one moderator: it's a conservative.
If there are two: the main one is conservative, the side kick is liberal.
If there's a panel: usually one's a liberal, the rest are all conservative.

This morning on Fox News, four panelist were all complaining because the whistleblowers were named as Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" and not George Bush (who was named in 2000). That doesn't sound like a liberal drumbeat to me.

About 90-95% of the radio talk show hosts are conservative.

So the liberals get one special and two newspapers and OMG they're controlling the media. Give me a friggin break

Those two newspapers are extremely popular and are some of the best media around. I use the Washington Post as my primary news soruce (www.washingtonpost.com when at college). Those are just some example I pointed of how the media leans left. So far the only example you brought forth is 4 panelists on morning show on the Fox News Channel complaining about Time's POTY choice. (Thinking the choice is stupid is bipartisan by the way. When I went to time's website, they had a poll on whether you agreed with their choice. When I voted 91.5% of people said they disagreed.)

As for news talk shows, most people don't watch those, what is more important is the hard news. But what you say about them isn't true. Donahue is a liberal and he has a show on MSNBC. Chris Matthews of Hardball is a Democrat. On Capital Gang, there are two liberals and two conservatives, but the head guy, Mark Shields, is a leftie.

[Seeker]

"Chris Matthews of Hardball is a Democrat."

Really? But he seems so right wing about most things.

Must be my Canadian perspective, coming from a country that elects Svend Robinson to represent one of our larger cities...

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Seeker
"Chris Matthews of Hardball is a Democrat."

Really? But he seems so right wing about most things.

Must be my Canadian perspective, coming from a country that elects Svend Robinson to represent one of our larger cities...

I agree. When I watch Hardball, it doesn't seem like he's too far left

[Sava]

The American Media is only out for ratings. If it's not exciting and controversial, it won't get reported. They cater to their owners which are largely conservative. Radio Talk Shows are largely conservative. And when some news outlet is liberal, right-wingers always come out with this "BAH BAH the media's liberal" garbage.

All you have to do is look at who owns the media outlet. Public news sources are the only objective sources.

[Guynemer]

How did an Arianna Huffington rant turn into yet another tired "'the media is liberal!' 'the media is conservative!'" debate?

Love Arianna. Living proof that conservatives can push for pro-democracy reforms too.