The press once again proves it's bias

Please.

The media is incredibly soft on Bush. He NEVER has to answer direct questions about what he has done. Ever. He is completely insulated from reality in the white house.

And with Fox News acting as the republican propaganda channel (I watched a few days ago, and what did they talk about? Kerry, and how bad he was, for hours and hours), it's hard to crow about how biased the media is against Bush...

Cycloptichorn

I guess those who against the network news will see as a deliberate hoax on the part of CBS who when looking like he was going to get caught fessed up.

Dan Rather is obviously a liberal so he probably was glad to get such a story handed to him. However I seriously doubt any news caster will run a story that they knew was made up, their reputation is on the line and they know it.

Fox news is as biased to the right as the 'Alphabet Networks' (ABC,CBS,NBC) are to the left.

At least Fox invites Liberals to its point/counterpoint type shows ...

When was the last time you saw a real conservative asked to join a discussion in network primetime.

"...a REAL Conservative"?

By whose definition?

Does he have to actually WEAR and DISPLAY a SWASTIKA to signify?

Does Bob (the sleeze) Novak count. I see him most every day on the "Liberal" media.

When was the last time you saw a real conservative asked to join a discussion in network primetime. <---

The last one? Zell Miller. And look how well that went.

As for a discussion of the slant of the media, I would point everyone to:
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/35667#736290

Where an excellent rundown of the media bias is given; it's been consistently slanted right since the 30's. One of my favorites (and this one's especially for you, Federal):



Seems there are more white male republicans on the alphabet networks than anything else, by far. Which directly contradicts your claims, Federal.

Cycloptichorn

From everything I've read it seems that these documents were passed around the White House before the story ever ran and not one person, not even Bush himself, questioned their authenticity.

Which makes it very hard for me to shake the image of Karl Rove giggling his ass off over having engineered another fun little prank.

I point you to a wonderful article posted by Foxfyre:

http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=34383

And if you don't believe me...

And to refuse to believe the poll of the people...

How about the opinions of individuals in the media themselves?

"I thought he [former CBS News correspondent Bernard Goldberg] made some very good points. There is just no question that I, among others, have a liberal bias. I mean, I'm consistently liberal in my opinions. And I think some of the, I think Dan [Rather] is transparently liberal. Now, he may not like to hear me say that. I always agree with him, too, but I think he should be more careful." -- CBS's 60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney on Goldberg's book, Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News, on CNN's Larry King Live, June 5, 2002

"Most of the time I really think responsible journalists, of which I hope I'm counted as one, leave our bias at the side of the table. Now it is true, historically in the media, it has been more of a liberal persuasion for many years. It has taken us a long time, too long in my view, to have vigorous conservative voices heard as widely in the media as they now are. And so I think yes, on occasion, there is a liberal instinct in the media which we need to keep our eye on, if you will." -- ABC anchor Peter Jennings appearing on CNN's Larry King Live, April 10, 2002

"There is a liberal bias. It's demonstrable. You look at some statistics. About 85 percent of the reporters who cover the White House vote Democratic, they have for a long time. There is a, particularly at the networks, at the lower levels, among the editors and the so-called infrastructure, there is a liberal bias. There is a liberal bias at Newsweek, the magazine I work for ?-- most of the people who work at Newsweek live on the upper West Side in New York and they have a liberal bias....[ABC White House reporter] Brit Hume's bosses are liberal and they're always quietly denouncing him as being a right-wing nut." ?- Newsweek Washington Bureau Chief Evan Thomas in an admission on Inside Washington, May 12, 1996.

"Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents." -- Walter Cronkite, March 21, 1996 Radio & TV Correspondents Dinner.

"There are lots of reasons fewer people are watching network news, and one of them, I'm more convinced than ever, is that our viewers simply don't trust us. And for good reason. The old argument that the networks and other `media elites' have a liberal bias is so blatantly true that it's hardly worth discussing anymore. No, we don't sit around in dark corners and plan strategies on how we're going to slant the news. We don't have to. It comes naturally to most reporters.....Mr. Engberg's report set new standards for bias....Can you imagine, in your wildest dreams, a network news reporter calling Hillary Clinton's health care plan 'wacky?'...
"?'Reality Check' suggests the viewers are going to get the facts. And then they can make up their mind. As Mr. Engberg might put it: `Time Out!' You'd have a better chance of getting the facts someplace else -- like Albania." ?- CBS reporter Bernard Goldberg on an anti-flat tax story by CBS reporter Eric Engberg, February 13, 1996 Wall Street Journal op-ed.
"I won't make any pretense that the American Agenda is totally neutral. We do take a position. And I think the public wants us now to take a position. If you give both sides and 'Well, on the one hand this and on the other that'--I think people kind of really want you to help direct their thinking on some issues." ?- ABC News reporter Carole Simpson on CNBC's Equal Time, August 9, 1994.

"We're unpopular because the press tends to be liberal, and I don't think we can run away from that. And I think we're unpopular with a lot of conservatives and Republicans this time because the White House press corps by and large detested George Bush, probably for good and sufficient reason, they certainly can cite chapter and verse. But their real contempt for him showed through in their reporting in a way that I think got up the nose of the American people." ?- Time writer William A. Henry III on the PBS November 4, 1992 election-night special The Finish Line.

"There is no such thing as objective reporting...I've become even more crafty about finding the voices to say the things I think are true. That's my subversive mission." ?- Boston Globe environmental reporter Dianne Dumanoski at an Utne Reader symposium May 17-20, 1990. Quoted by Micah Morrison in the July 1990 American Spectator.

That article only states that an opinion poll seems to indicate that people perceive the networks as biased.

Out of over 300 million inhabitants there are BOUND to be a few individuals who see things from a skewed perspective.
Quoting them alll together in one post does NOT mean that their skewed perspective is accurate... it just proves that they have peers.

Not to mention over half of those quotes are from the early 90s. Only two are recent, and they are admissions of personal bias and not bias in reporting.