Monday, March 14, 2005

Biased Media

"The annual report by a press watchdog that is affiliated with Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism said that 36 percent of stories about Bush were negative compared to 12 percent about Kerry, a Massachusetts senator."
Link

I would just like to say, "Duh!"

6 comments:

tom said...

yea, Duh. Wouldn't a big reason be the nature of incumbency? the incombent is going to have a natural inertia of negative stories - no matter which party. The challenger is the new guy. More negative stories for the incoumbent does not mean he is hated more or will lose...obviously.

tom said...

When will people PLEASE give that whole "liberal media bias" thing a rest?

George Bush is a polarizing figure. The country is split on many issues and he has been President for a terms. That is why there are more negative stories.

RobertDWood said...

-"George Bush is a polarizing figure. The country is split on many issues and he has been President for a terms. That is why there are more negative stories."-

Polarizing figure, that won the majority vote.

tom said...

I am sorry. I was just pushing buttons. (smile) I do that.

Your completely expected response did make me smile. Thanks.

I am to tired to argue seriously on this one. Are liberals in the media at very high rates? Yea, because we are highly educated at such higher rates. (another button, but true...now your turn to discount higher education)

Do you think WSJ is liberal biased? For my news I read WSJ, The Economist, Mother Jones, listen to NPR and occasionally watch Tim Russert. Tim seems liberal, but he is fair. WSJ seems both liberal and conservative...Paul Gigot is certainly not liberal and I don't scream about him all the time. I can see where neo-conservatives or Christian-conservatives would not like The Economist. Mother Jones is admittedly very biased, but that does not count because it presents itself that way.

I don't have cable because us commie liberals read and make our kids paint and play music and other subversive activities. Hey, I am super liberal and my kids go to parocial school and sing songs and tell stories about Jesus ALL DAY. That has to make your head spin. So I don't see CNN. I see it sometimes at work whe the secretaries are not watching soaps in the breakroom (they have to have their stories). Fox News just hurts my head. Honestly, Fox scares the heeby jeebies out me. And the MSNBC...can they put anything else on the screen? They are yelling at each other - that seems conservative...all my conservative friends yell when debating. And radio? It seems whenever I stray from my stated sourse, I hear some conservative blaming liebrals for this or that.I admit that i am out of touch with your flashy MTV generation, but I just don't see a huge liberal bias. In my world - my life - I rarey get to meet another liberal. When I do, i hug and kiss them. I just don't see this incideous bias.

Yea, Bush won, but he is still polarizing. You cannot even admit that?

RobertDWood said...

-"Are liberals in the media at very high rates? Yea, because we are highly educated at such higher rates. (another button, but true...now your turn to discount higher education)"-

Sorry, that button is broken. At least the liberals in Harvard argue with each other. Alot.

Liz is right. The second to last paragraph was more like a transcript of a radio speech. Some good points. Espesically the "commie liberal" hehehehehe....

tom said...

It was a trasncript from the radio show I give the my bathroom mirror.

Question: How do you put those other blog links and news source link on the right side of your blog?