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Offline rpm

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« Reply #45 on: May 21, 2007, 10:40:54 AM »
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Can anyone name an obvious conservative who works at MSNBC, CBS, ABC, or NBC or CNN?
Scarborough and Pat Buchanon both work for MSNBC.

A reporter should be neutral, not an obvious conservative or liberal. Unfortunately, many here seem to think if they are not an obvious conservative, they are a liberal. That same group would also label NewsMax as a legit source when it is actually the propaganda department of the RNC.
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« Reply #46 on: May 21, 2007, 11:47:44 AM »
I think it's funny that some people defend their favorite news station more then some of the hottest election year topics.
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« Reply #47 on: May 21, 2007, 01:37:48 PM »
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Please understand that FOX news acts as a "balancer".


Sure.  I can see old Mr. Murdoch right now:

Biggsly, what we need is BALANCE!

I'm going to buy up the news outlets to balance the evil liberals who are ruining everything.

And I dont' care if I make a tuppence.
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« Reply #48 on: May 21, 2007, 02:07:34 PM »
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Scarborough and Pat Buchanon both work for MSNBC.

A reporter should be neutral, not an obvious conservative or liberal. Unfortunately, many here seem to think if they are not an obvious conservative, they are a liberal. That same group would also label NewsMax as a legit source when it is actually the propaganda department of the RNC.


I'm sorry, but last Friday night, NBC News was like this:
Story 1: Katrina aftermath: Bush is bad.
Story 2: NOAA undermanned and under funded. Bush mentioned. Bush is bad.
Story 3: Immigration, Bush administration mentioned...Bush is bad.
Story 4: Iraq....yep, Bush is bad.
Whoop@ Story 5: "how Laura Bush gets alittle bit of extra cash every year..." coming up after the commercial!!

Every story mentioned "bush is bad" in one form or another. 20 minutes before they moved onto something that didn't not involve bush bashing.

I think Fox is the balance to the obvious liberal media agenda apparent out there today on the TV. Although I don't watch much Fox, I can admit that it is indeed bias to the right, but with it being outnumbered by the left media services, what exactly is wrong with that?  I personlly like to hear both sides of a story before I make my mind up who is right and who is wrong.
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« Reply #49 on: May 21, 2007, 03:12:34 PM »
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I'm sorry, but last Friday night, NBC News was like this:
Story 1: Katrina aftermath: Bush is bad.
Story 2: NOAA undermanned and under funded. Bush mentioned. Bush is bad.
Story 3: Immigration, Bush administration mentioned...Bush is bad.
Story 4: Iraq....yep, Bush is bad.
Whoop@ Story 5: "how Laura Bush gets alittle bit of extra cash every year..." coming up after the commercial!!

Every story mentioned "bush is bad" in one form or another. 20 minutes before they moved onto something that didn't not involve bush bashing.

I think Fox is the balance to the obvious liberal media agenda apparent out there today on the TV. Although I don't watch much Fox, I can admit that it is indeed bias to the right, but with it being outnumbered by the left media services, what exactly is wrong with that?  I personlly like to hear both sides of a story before I make my mind up who is right and who is wrong.
Rip, do you think maybe all those "Bush is bad" stories might have something to do with Bush actually doing a bad job? It is within the realm of possibility, isn't it?

Would you prefer they paint a faux rosy picture of Katrina instead of showing some actual Katrina victims? Perhaps they should make up fake statistics about NOAA so it becomes a feel good story about weathermen. Should they do a story on immigration and not report on Bush's POV?

I suppose Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh are "legitimate" sources since they would never report the truth on anything Bush did wrong. I don't remember anyone calling the news biased when 4/5 stories focused on Clinton and his foul-ups.
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« Reply #50 on: May 21, 2007, 04:24:44 PM »
Olbermann is another pundit, and presents an editorial opinion.

Still, I think he has a really good point with this one:

Keith Olbermann Neuters Bill O'Reilly

Watch the whole thing.  I think he's really right in what he charges at the end.
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« Reply #51 on: May 22, 2007, 03:29:36 AM »
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« Reply #52 on: May 22, 2007, 09:44:38 AM »
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feature about Fox news is how splenidly it exposes those who hate it.


Yes it splendidly exposes them as knowing **** from shinola.
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« Reply #53 on: May 22, 2007, 09:56:33 AM »
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Rip, do you think maybe all those "Bush is bad" stories might have something to do with Bush actually doing a bad job? It is within the realm of possibility, isn't it?

Would you prefer they paint a faux rosy picture of Katrina instead of showing some actual Katrina victims? Perhaps they should make up fake statistics about NOAA so it becomes a feel good story about weathermen. Should they do a story on immigration and not report on Bush's POV?

I suppose Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh are "legitimate" sources since they would never report the truth on anything Bush did wrong. I don't remember anyone calling the news biased when 4/5 stories focused on Clinton and his foul-ups.

What you're missing here is:


No "other side of the story" being reported. Its one-way and slanted indisputedly left!
Examples:

Story 1: Katrina aftermath: Bush is bad.
(They failed to remind viewers that a castostrophic event has never occured at this level before in N.O. and no one, not even Nostrodomis could have predicted the construction "vulching" that occurred after...I mean they were actually suggesting the Bush Admin was behind the price gouging going on by the contractors rebuilding N.O.!!!)

Story 2: NOAA undermanned and under funded. Bush mentioned. Bush is bad.
(Failed to mention that NOAA has been undermanned and underfunded for 2 decades now! Do the research!)

Story 3: Immigration, Bush administration mentioned...Bush is bad.
(Failed to mention the Democrats that were the weight pushing this bill forward! Where was the Ted Kennedy follow up story?!?)

Story 4: Iraq....yep, Bush is bad.
(Speaks for itself, start with a story about another dead soldier and how Bush is bad...rinse and repeat)

Whoop@ Story 5: "how Laura Bush gets alittle bit of extra cash every year..." coming up after the commercial!!
(They make this sound like she's abusing money entitled to her..how? By comparing how much of this entitlement money was used by previous First ladies for charity, and how Mrs. Bush has not planned to donate any to charity yet...! OMG, talk about partisan politics!)

Seriously, if you cannot see the slant left on NBC evening news, and only see the slant right on Fox, then you are either truly blind, partisan beyond all recovery, or just stupid.
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« Reply #54 on: May 22, 2007, 03:00:01 PM »
So you're saying nothing they reported was true? How everyone dons a tinfoil hat when network news is the subject is amazing. Is there yellow journalism out there? Yes, there's a lot of it. NBC, CBS, ABC and even your flag waving FOX (gasp!).

Does that mean everything they report is fabricated and calculated to brainwash you? No, it doesn't. But you won't even admit there might be a common denominator (i.e. Bush is screwing the pooch).

I worked as a stringer/reporter for a Top 10 market ABC affilliate in the 80's after I got out of the Coast Guard. One of my stories even made national and was read by Peter Jennings. So, really I have no idea what the heck I'm talking about when we are discussing network news.
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« Reply #55 on: May 22, 2007, 04:31:19 PM »
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I worked as a stringer/reporter for a Top 10 market ABC affilliate in the 80's after I got out of the Coast Guard. One of my stories even made national and was read by Peter Jennings. So, really I have no idea what the heck I'm talking about when we are discussing network news.


If I send in a joke to Readers Digest and they publish it, does that make me an expert on monthly publications?   :rofl
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« Reply #56 on: May 22, 2007, 04:52:33 PM »
No, but if you take some college courses and get an internship you might have a clue.
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« Reply #57 on: May 22, 2007, 05:07:22 PM »
Mention FNC and the Libs get their panties in a wad in record time.
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« Reply #58 on: May 22, 2007, 05:09:24 PM »
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Scarborough and Pat Buchanon both work for MSNBC.

A reporter should be neutral, not an obvious conservative or liberal. Unfortunately, many here seem to think if they are not an obvious conservative, they are a liberal.


Wouldnt they be considered commentators as opposed to reporters?
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« Reply #59 on: May 22, 2007, 05:38:45 PM »
Probably, Slash. But he didn't say reporters.
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Can anyone name an obvious conservative who works at MSNBC, CBS, ABC, or NBC or CNN?
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