It is the headlines.. controlled by right wing.

Here are the headlines from a recent page at MSNBC..politics.. These were taken from the politics section of the main page at MSNBC at about 6:45 am Eastern Time on 5/15/ 10.

NYT: Banks lose lobbying effort over debit-card fees
An amendment to Senate financial legislation that imposes price controls is a victory for retailers fighting banking industry lobbyists. Consumers also could save money.

In primaries, 'incumbent' is a four-letter word
Palin says Obama would ban guns if he could
Obama: Time to end ‘cozy’ ties with oil
Conservative friends rise in support of Kagan
Army recalls 44,000 combat helmets
Palin, Jenny Sanford help underdog in gov race
Sestak, Specter in Senate primary homestretch
Kagan’s White House time rare on court
Intel expert: Indonesians plotted to kill Obama
Small business lobby to go to court on health law
Clinton: British coalition not source of concernMultimedia Video

Obama 'dressed down' Pentagon over troop levels

Specter, Sestak fight for political survival


Obama gushes anger at oil execs


I have always believed that all headlines in most national news sources are controlled at a central location, approved and then sent out. That location is some Republican/right wing think tank.
While the stories themselves are not completely controlled, the headlines are. All of them..
Look at this list, Palin is mentioned twice, in a positive light.
I see headlines about Palin almost always positive..Don't you?

Or on Obama's anger at the oil companies...
Is the word "gushes" a positive word about anger at oil companies?..
Kinda a play on words. Like this is some kind of game to be angry at the oil companies..or someone's idea of a joke.

So many times, I have noticed, that the headlines favor the GOP (even the use of GOP sounds better than the Republicans}. The tone of most headlines favor the right wing, and their friends.


If one looks at the headlines almost any time, one would see that the headlines have a slant against our point of view.
For example, the word "helps" is positive. and Palin and Sanford "help the underdog" ..people are for the underdog. These type of examples can be found over and over again. Everywhere there is a list of headlines in major media outlets, I see this repeated.
Is it really too far out to think that these short sentences are controlled centrally by the right wing? Perhaps people disagree. But we need a discussion on this since so many people just read the headlines and not the entire story.

Oh, one more idea. This slanting is somewhat subtle. One has to look for it. We look over headlines so quickly, that we may not realize that they are slanted in favor of the conservative/ right wing view point. Exactly how it is meant to be. So you don't notice the slant.