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In reply to the discussion: GAWD DAMN -This Florida shit is going too far - [View all]calimary
(82,035 posts)to look even-handed, when its embarrassingly not so.
I think the radical right has raised such a stink about an imagined liberal bias for so doggone long that the networks and news executives across the country are extremely self-conscious about bias. Theyre SO super-sensitive about being accused of being biased that I suspect theyre super-motivated to counteract that criticism.
So how to do that? The cheapest and easiest way is to just bring in more GOP and CONservative-slanted talking heads and the way news scripts are written and what they lead with and how many minutes are spent on it. Unfortunately, that just creates a different perception problem, one that the news chiefs havent really wrapped their brains around yet - if they even recognize it yet.
I think theyre just trying to mollify the complainers. Its the whole squeaky wheel thing, unfortunately. Such a quick-n-dirty solution just creates a whole new bias.
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