The liberal media lie needs to be debunked.

Maybe it should be Michael Moore's next project. I have read bits and pieces in here about who owns the media and which "reporters" are conservative vs. liberal. Has anyone written a comprehensive piece on this?

Yes Vox this is the most perfect explanation!!

Also, here is an excellent review of the book that's worth a read!


Proof Through Repetition and the "Liberal Bias" of the U.S. Media:
A Review of Eric Alterman's What Liberal Media?


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Can it ever be pointless to publish a well-written book?

Eric Alterman's What Liberal Media? is a nice piece of work. It combines uncompromising passion with sardonic humor, careful research, and incisive prose. Alterman makes a solid case that the legendary left-wing bias of the big-time American media is a myth.

That so many people believe that myth is a testament to nothing more than the power of repetition--a constant drumbeat from the right that has, perversely, "proved" an utter falsehood. Conservatives produce an endless supply of books, position papers, speeches, and so on, repeating the same discredited stories and distortions as if they were true. Truth becomes whatever they say it is--at least until someone like Alterman comes along and shows otherwise.

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dismiss any facts they want by saying they were created by the "liberal media"

Michael Moore - who actually IS the liberal media - will not clear things up.

The exposee has to come from an impeachable source of news. I can't think of a single one at the moment. Pretty sad, eh?

:shrug: Hollywood Liberal I can buy but Media??????

the "entertainer" arguement undermines everything he does.

be label liberal if they came out against the right reich. So it might as well be Moore.

We have a controlled media that will not host medical researchers on the subject of medical cannabis or the effects of chlorine and flouride in the drinking water or what depleted uranium does to ravage the body.

Here is the Kennedy speech- http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091705Z.shtml Everyone should know the six major media corporations and point out that GE, Disney, Murdoch, and Wellstone are the opposite of liberal. Preaching "liberal media" is a litmus test for reality. I canned a lot of old friends using this litmus test.

If ever anyone epitomized the true fact that many journalists today have no ideology, but are simply bought-and-paid-for, it is Judith Miller, of the "liberal" NYT.

Trying to squelch a story in which he is involved to maintain his 7-8 figure lifestyle.

You cannot report the concerns of the working man/woman if you are a member of the ruling elite.

wingnuts must feel when they see that their favorite target, the "liberal" NYT, was in fact harboring a staunch Bush-loving neocon. And that their other favorite target, the Washington Post, harbors Woodward, who, though they might've hated him for trashing Nixon, now has kneepads on for Bush (just as the wingnuts themselves have.)

“Years ago, Republican party chair Rich Bond explained that conservatives' frequent denunciations of ‘liberal bias’ in the media were part of ‘a strategy’ (Washington Post, 8/20/92). Comparing journalists to referees in a sports match, Bond explained: ‘If you watch any great coach, what they try to do is “work the refs.” Maybe the ref will cut you a little slack next time.’”
http://www.makethemaccountable.com/myth/LiberalMedia.htm

Anyone paying attention can see that the media is in the pocket of this administration. The people who continue to use the term "liberal media" are the same spinners paid by the administration like those on Fox News and Rush and the right-wing radical radio freaks. The only ones who believe it are the lemmings who continue to support the * administration under any and all circumstances.

I have been saying for a while now that anyone who supports the current administration are either not paying attention or have a significant personality flaw.

I used to say that the Republican Party was made up of the rich and gullible. I have modified this with some input from Tom DeLay.
Republicans are either rich or gullible or "wacko's".

I work with a guy who kept saying sarcastically that it was Bush's fault Katrina hit (regurgitating that talking-point spin). I finally got fed up with him and asked him if he was paying attention to anything other than Fox News. It came out in the conversation that he did not know who Rove was. I told him I was glad that he did not have a significant character flaw and that he needed simply to educate himself.

Which is virtually the same as it not being debunked.

After all, who's going to get the word out? the liberal media?

reporters/anchors and their right or left bias's??

Please support them, DUers!

....go back and regurgitate their 'liberal media' lie....let's go forward and replace it with our own 'MSM is a corporate, fascist, propaganda machine that can't be trusted'....which IMO is the truth....

....I direct people to non-MSM places like DU to find facts, figures and truth....'liberal media' or 'corporate propaganda'....let the people decide....

....the MSM must be getting worried about their credibility....they continually direct increasingly skeptical users to their websites for more arm-twisting follow up and therapy....

Obviously there are both sides in the media. The right has cornered the market it appears on radio talk shows. And Fox spews right wing propaganda disguised as news 24/7.

The left needs a 24/7 television spot for their viewpoint.

Liberal media: Whiny, bitching, cry-baby conservatives love to prattle on and on about the "liberal media." To be fair, except for FOX News (Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, John Gibson, Neil Cavuto, Steve Doocy, E.D. Hill, Brian Kilmeade, Brit Hume), Clear Channel, Laura Ingraham, Dr. Laura, Rush Limbaugh, Hugh Hewitt, Ann Coulter, Newsmax, G. Gordon Liddy, Michael Reagan, Michael Savage, The New York Post, Sinclair Broadcast Group (WLOS13, Fox 45, WTTO21, WB49, KGAN, WICD, WICS, WCHS, WVAH, WTAT, WSTR, WSYX, WTTE, WKEF, WRGT, KDSM, WSMH, WXLV, WURN, KVWB, KFBT, WDKY, WMSN, WVTV, WEAR, WZTV, KOTH, WYZZ, WPGH, WGME, WLFL, WRLH, WUHF, KABB, WGGB, WSYT, WTTA), David Horowitz, Rupert Murdoch, PAX, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, they're right.

Courtesy of Maddox (http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=banish)

been debunked many times over in fact. The problem is that the conservatives define the "liberal media" as any media that allows a single liberal to speak a single word.