LongTermGuy
04-02-2015, 11:47 PM
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`The Top 50 Liberal Media Bias Examples..............`
`Let’s face it, liberal media bias has been around since there have been liberals to do the “reporting” of the news. But this fact should surprise no one. After all, the news media has always been filled with bias of one type or another. In fact, there was a time when American customers of the news knew exactly which newspapers sported which point of view. It was taken for granted that one newspaper supported one side and another newspaper a different side.
But in the late 1950s and early 1960s that all changed. Suddenly the folks in the news media began to present themselves as unbiased pursuers of “the truth.” Gone was the out-in-front bias and instead the media cloaked itself in a new air of detachment, a new just-the-facts mien....This new era in media conceit coincided with the advent of a liberal mindset that took on the weight of the world, a new era in which liberals felt that their ideals rose above God, tradition and country.
Suddenly a journalist’s work was divorced from the trade in local news and became a profession increasingly assuming a national and ideological agenda, one fueled by journalism schools and professors that began to disgorge university trained “journalists” with a left-wing agenda. These people then went forth to replace the grizzled local reporters that were wedded to their local political culture. This new wave of “journalists” did not want to report what was going on in their local news as much as they wanted to “save the world.”
`More inside....But a couple of examples:
7). 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing: In an example of jumping to conclusions — as long as such jumping smears the right — the media has for years claimed that convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was a “Christian terrorist.” This is an absurd claim, though, because McVeigh did not perpetrate his crimes in the name of religion nor was he a proselytizing Christian. He was an anti-government activist and did not use religion to justify any of his actions. This claim is still extant and even came up recently in a piece by lefty journalist Juan Williams (http://www.publiusforum.com/2011/10/27/did-juan-williams-link-christians-to-the-oklahoma-city-bombing/). McVeigh was also part of the mythic “white militias” fear that the media and President Bill Clinton drummed up in the 1990s with little to no evidence.`
9). KKK Double Standard: There are two stories (or one story and a lack of the other story) that shows how differently the media treats conservatives and Democrats on the issue of the KKK and the two stories can be summed up in two names: Trent Lott and Robert Byrd. Even though the Democrat Party is the party from which the KKK was born, the media constantly burdens Republicans with the epithet of being Klan members. In 2002 for instance, GOP Senate Majority leader Trent Lott from Mississippi attended a retirement party (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21973397/ns/politics/t/trent-lott-announces-his-resignation/#.TuJx60pGx5k) of long-time Senator Strom Thurmond, famed for his anti-Civil Rights activism of the early 1960s. At the party Lott praised Thurmond’s career and said that, “If the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years either.” Lott later called this was a “poor choice of words.” The media, however, instantly whipped the story up into national news. So much so, in fact, that Lott had to step down as GOP leader (http://articles.cnn.com/2002-12-20/politics/lott.controversy_1_trent-lott-108th-congress-new-leader?_s=PM:ALLPOLITICS). Lott’s poor choice of words cost him his powerful position. Some may say that it is good that someone with a racist past would be turned out of power and that the Old Media did its job properly. But if defeating racism was really the media’s goal, why did it never attack Democrat Senator Robert Byrd who became the longest serving Senator in history? After all Robert Byrd was an actual member of the KKK in the 1930s and 40s, even served as a recruiter for that hate group. Yet the media never bothered to question him on his membership in the KKK until 2005 only a few short years before his death. Obvious destroying Trent Lott, not rooting out racism, was the Old Media’s goal here and it illustrates well the left’s double standard on the issue.`
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http://www.westernjournalism.com/top-50-examples-liberal-media-bias/
`The Top 50 Liberal Media Bias Examples..............`
`Let’s face it, liberal media bias has been around since there have been liberals to do the “reporting” of the news. But this fact should surprise no one. After all, the news media has always been filled with bias of one type or another. In fact, there was a time when American customers of the news knew exactly which newspapers sported which point of view. It was taken for granted that one newspaper supported one side and another newspaper a different side.
But in the late 1950s and early 1960s that all changed. Suddenly the folks in the news media began to present themselves as unbiased pursuers of “the truth.” Gone was the out-in-front bias and instead the media cloaked itself in a new air of detachment, a new just-the-facts mien....This new era in media conceit coincided with the advent of a liberal mindset that took on the weight of the world, a new era in which liberals felt that their ideals rose above God, tradition and country.
Suddenly a journalist’s work was divorced from the trade in local news and became a profession increasingly assuming a national and ideological agenda, one fueled by journalism schools and professors that began to disgorge university trained “journalists” with a left-wing agenda. These people then went forth to replace the grizzled local reporters that were wedded to their local political culture. This new wave of “journalists” did not want to report what was going on in their local news as much as they wanted to “save the world.”
`More inside....But a couple of examples:
7). 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing: In an example of jumping to conclusions — as long as such jumping smears the right — the media has for years claimed that convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was a “Christian terrorist.” This is an absurd claim, though, because McVeigh did not perpetrate his crimes in the name of religion nor was he a proselytizing Christian. He was an anti-government activist and did not use religion to justify any of his actions. This claim is still extant and even came up recently in a piece by lefty journalist Juan Williams (http://www.publiusforum.com/2011/10/27/did-juan-williams-link-christians-to-the-oklahoma-city-bombing/). McVeigh was also part of the mythic “white militias” fear that the media and President Bill Clinton drummed up in the 1990s with little to no evidence.`
9). KKK Double Standard: There are two stories (or one story and a lack of the other story) that shows how differently the media treats conservatives and Democrats on the issue of the KKK and the two stories can be summed up in two names: Trent Lott and Robert Byrd. Even though the Democrat Party is the party from which the KKK was born, the media constantly burdens Republicans with the epithet of being Klan members. In 2002 for instance, GOP Senate Majority leader Trent Lott from Mississippi attended a retirement party (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21973397/ns/politics/t/trent-lott-announces-his-resignation/#.TuJx60pGx5k) of long-time Senator Strom Thurmond, famed for his anti-Civil Rights activism of the early 1960s. At the party Lott praised Thurmond’s career and said that, “If the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years either.” Lott later called this was a “poor choice of words.” The media, however, instantly whipped the story up into national news. So much so, in fact, that Lott had to step down as GOP leader (http://articles.cnn.com/2002-12-20/politics/lott.controversy_1_trent-lott-108th-congress-new-leader?_s=PM:ALLPOLITICS). Lott’s poor choice of words cost him his powerful position. Some may say that it is good that someone with a racist past would be turned out of power and that the Old Media did its job properly. But if defeating racism was really the media’s goal, why did it never attack Democrat Senator Robert Byrd who became the longest serving Senator in history? After all Robert Byrd was an actual member of the KKK in the 1930s and 40s, even served as a recruiter for that hate group. Yet the media never bothered to question him on his membership in the KKK until 2005 only a few short years before his death. Obvious destroying Trent Lott, not rooting out racism, was the Old Media’s goal here and it illustrates well the left’s double standard on the issue.`
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http://www.westernjournalism.com/top-50-examples-liberal-media-bias/