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25. "What Liberal Media?" is an excellent book about the push to the right of all mass media.

Reply to Shanti Mama (Original post)

Sun Oct 14, 2012, 12:04 PM

Oct 2012

One technique used by the many right wing think tanks and commentators is "playing the ref"-- accuse the media of being too liberal and they will do as much as they can to prove that they are not liberal.

Here is an article about the book.

http://www.thenation.com/article/what-liberal-media

The book goes into really fascinating detail about the many right wing foundations that were created since the 70's to push the national dialogue to the right.

Media consolidation also changed many things. We used to have about 80 media companies in the USA but when the Democrats deregulated media ownership to be "New Democrats" and show that they were not too liberal, more giant corporations swooped in to merge and acquire media companies and now 5 corporations own most of our mass media.

http://www.freepress.net/ownership/chart

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Help needed. Explaining to friend that CNN and NYT are NOT wildly liberal news sources. [View all] Shanti Mama Oct 2012 OP

I went through a nightmare conversation like this on FB - would a takedown of PBS help? jsmirman Oct 2012 #1

Not sure how I could use this, but thanks for your reply. Shanti Mama Oct 2012 #5

PBS is part of the firmament reflexively thought of a liberal by default jsmirman Oct 2012 #9

look at the newspaper endorsements listed today Fresh_Start Oct 2012 #2

Good idea. Is there a list on DU. Shanti Mama Oct 2012 #3

here's a few links listed today Fresh_Start Oct 2012 #4

the top one isn't opening. Shanti Mama Oct 2012 #6

you have to remove with I types at the end of the line Fresh_Start Oct 2012 #22

It is only logic ask her why is the media doing such a bad job hiding its bias? aandegoons Oct 2012 #7

Good one! Shanti Mama Oct 2012 #11

Chain email bullshit debunked Lasher Oct 2012 #8

Thanks. Excellent. Shanti Mama Oct 2012 #12

Ask her to put a spectrum together from most liberal to most conservative on point Oct 2012 #10

Will do this. Shanti Mama Oct 2012 #13

My latest post to my friend... Shanti Mama Oct 2012 #14

My friend also thinks small business owners hate Obamacare. Shanti Mama Oct 2012 #15

FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) has a lot on this. bananas Oct 2012 #16

This type of "educating" is too tiring for me. Tell her to do her own research. WinkyDink Oct 2012 #17

She's not interested in doing research and Shanti Mama Oct 2012 #20

That's fine and I've had fun doing the same thing for years. Lasher Oct 2012 #23

KISS-Keep It Simple Sweetie IF a "News Agency" deals opinion instead of fact, it's SKEWS, not NEWS Tigress DEM Oct 2012 #18

Thank you! Shanti Mama Oct 2012 #21

You need to ask her who OWNS the media. DiverDave Oct 2012 #19

I wish we had volunteer inbound call centers and web chat gulliver Oct 2012 #24

"What Liberal Media?" is an excellent book about the push to the right of all mass media. Overseas Oct 2012 #25

NYT-Blair/Miller CNN-Wolf/Candy/Bernie destroyed Dukakis nuff said Ted himself never a dem graham4anything Oct 2012 #26

You could direct your friend to CNN.com's peculiar front page 21 December 2012 Oct 2012 #27