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Topic: Americans Slam News Media on Believability
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| jazzreport | Posted – 1/9/2008 8:50:50 AM | show profile http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS160770+08-Jan-2008+PRN20080108 Americans see: -- Growing media attempts to influence public opinion and policies -- Poor quality -- A strong liberal bent in most media -- Fox News, CNN and NBC as the most accurate The most trusted national TV news organizations, for accurate reporting, in declining order included: Fox News (27.0%), CNN (14.6%), and NBC News (10.90%). These were followed by ABC News (7.0%), local news (6.9%), CBS News (6.8%) MSNBC (4.0%), PBS News (3.0%), CNBC (0.6%) and CBN (0.5%). In 2003, CNN led Fox News on "trust most for accurate reporting" 23.8% to 14.6%. |
| chucho | Posted – 1/9/2008 9:33:47 AM | show profile Definitions of conservative: * resistant to change * opposed to liberal reforms * cautious: avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate" * button-down: unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"- Newsweek * a person who has conservative ideas or opinions * bourgeois: conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality" |
| jazzreport | Posted – 1/16/2008 12:58:20 PM | show profile chucho why do you have to turn everything into a liberal vs. conservative post?? |
| UncleArthur | Posted – 1/16/2008 1:45:23 PM | show profile WRT: "chucho why do you have to turn everything into a liberal vs. conservative post??" You call yourself 'why_do_libs_hate' and you have to ask that question? |
| jazzreport | Posted – 1/16/2008 3:39:39 PM | show profile Yeah crimedog and chucho are always jacking threads.They can't stay on topic.They resort to childish name calling,gay slurs, and racist comments. I wish all the name calling would stop. |
| soulman | Posted – 1/16/2008 7:24:37 PM | show profile CNN is most trusted That poll means nothing. CNN is THE GOLD STANDARD IN JOURNALISM. They make FOX look like some oufit run by a bunch of kiddies. CNN is run by liberals and hires liberals to produce their shows and anchor their news desks. Liberals are what it's at. We run this country, and it's funny to see a few lonely media outlets like FOX and a few insignificant wacko radio talk show hosts like Limbaugh and Hannity trying to turn the tide of liberalism! They are wasting their time! Long live CNN and their dogged pursuit of Republican corruption and conservative religious wackos. |
| UncleArthur | Posted – 1/16/2008 7:39:27 PM | show profile "There was no name-calling in the posting. There was no "Liberals are bad" or "Conservatives are good" argument in the posting. There was no anti-gay/racist sluts in the posting." And yet, it was posted by someone calling themselves 'why_do_libs_hate' Perhaps I should change my handle to 'youre_all_jerks'? |
| jazzreport | Posted – 1/16/2008 7:42:23 PM | show profile Wow !! Glad to see you know i posted that. You can change your name to whatever you want.Who cares? |
| noname1234 | Posted – 1/16/2008 7:42:27 PM | show profile Frank, what's your vision of what this section of the mediabistro message board should look like? Since your many hundreds of posts don't seem to generate the kind of conversation you crave, perhaps you need to either 1) re-think the topics you suggest or 2) find another board where the conversations are to your liking. This is a serious suggestions. Simply demanding that people "respond to your posts!" in a certain way when the (very, very few) people who participate here apparently don't feel compelled to won't get you very far. |
| jazzreport | Posted – 1/16/2008 7:47:40 PM | show profile UncleArthur, noname,chucho, crimedog Why do you feel like you have to highjack thread after thread?? Whats so hard about staying on topic?? If you don't like the topic why don't you post different topics?? |
| jazzreport | Posted – 1/16/2008 7:47:42 PM | show profile UncleArthur, noname,chucho, crimedog Why do you feel like you have to highjack thread after thread?? Whats so hard about staying on topic?? If you don't like the topic why don't you post different topics?? |
| noname1234 | Posted – 1/16/2008 7:54:43 PM | show profile Well, I can answer that question for me... I don't post other topics because I'm not interested in initiating conversation about TV news with the tiny number of people who post here regularly. As for the "thread hijack" -- sorry that the fascinating, active discussion that was bubbling along after your started this thread got thrown off track! |
| UncleArthur | Posted – 1/16/2008 8:05:56 PM | show profile Ha! I've posted to a total of about four threads here EVER, two of which were today. If I'm your problem, your troubles are few. |
| noname1234 | Posted – 1/16/2008 8:24:18 PM | show profile But Frank, if that's not happening, then you have to consider that... 1. The topics being posting aren't compelling to the (few) people here. Possible solution? Different topics 2. The (few) people who stop by here aren't interested in engaging you in the kind of conversation you seek. Possible solution? You could find another site where people are interesting in engaging in the kind of conversation you seek. But berating people for not engaging with you in the topics that you find most interesting and post about over and over again -- for example, the perception some folks hold of liberal bias in certain media outlets -- isn't going to force people here to want to talk about this with you. |
| noname1234 | Posted – 1/16/2008 8:42:42 PM | show profile And Frank, you've expressed your opinion pretty strongly about the (few) people who bother to post anything here: that they have no brain (me), that they suffer from "bush derangement syndrome," etc. You honestly feel deprived that you can't engage in MORE conversation with people whom you've already said you think are idiots? |
| noname1234 | Posted – 1/16/2008 9:59:56 PM | show profile Frank, so far, you've contributed 873 posts under this particular screenname. How many of those posts sparked or drove forward a meaningful, respectful, enjoyable conversation? If the answer to that is few or none, would you consider that you might need to rethink something you tactics in those 873 posts -- perhaps the tone, the subject, or the quantity? Or is it merely, in your view, that the other posters have no brains, are idiots/"libs", etc. and therefore don't appreciate the valuable observations you're making? If that's the case, why bother contributing posting #874? Aren't the rest of us a lost cause? |
| Dead Air | Posted – 1/16/2008 10:04:59 PM | show profile /momentary threadjack... Frank... noname hits this right on the head...people would enjoy a spirited discussion with you if you weren't always acting like the old angry man next door yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off his goddanm yard. /end threadjack |
| Iron Eagle | Posted – 1/16/2008 10:55:29 PM | show profile Oh my...see fellows what you're up against! |
| jazzreport | Posted – 1/21/2008 9:54:12 AM | show profile http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2008/01/21/sixth-poll-year-finds-public-recognizes-liberal-tilt-news-media More polls that show most Americans believe theres a liberal tit to the media. |
| Iron Eagle | Posted – 1/21/2008 10:38:52 AM | show profile 'Americans believe theres a liberal tit to the media.' Olby - what's a liberal tit? |
| jazzreport | Posted – 1/21/2008 12:11:23 PM | show profile ummmmm Something Hillary has???? Beats me! |
| chucho | Posted – 1/21/2008 2:21:21 PM | show profile My point, and there is on, is that if the definition of liberal is having an open mind and the definition of conservative is resistant to change then it would be no surprise that media would be labeled "liberal" in a liberal Western democracy like America's. If you want conservative media, move to Iran. That's my point using the dictionary definition of "liberal" and "conservative". In fact, US media ISN'T LIBERAL ENOUGH. I'm sure you've heard that before, right? That hen the media gives equal time to one guy who says the world is round and another guy who says the world is flat, the media is actually biased because it's giving equal time to somebody who is empirically wrong. You give hours a face time a week to Anne Coulter, but you shut Dennis Kucinish out of Democratic debate, and then say the media is liberal? HAHAHAHA! You people deserve the leaders you get. |
| jazzreport | Posted – 1/22/2008 9:05:40 AM | show profile Liberal is having a open mind?? Than you would think liberals respect other people's view point.You would think liberals would be open to discussion and debate . NOPE!!!!! Against affirmative action than your racist. Don't believe city or state contracts should be given based on skin color than your racist If you want border security and want to stop illegals than your racist. If your anti-abortion than your a wacko. Thats the way the liberal MSM is.Either agree with us or you have no voice. Attack anyone who doesn't report the same way you do.Thats why FNC gets attacked everyday . Only report white on black hate crimes.Only report beat downs or shootings by cops if the victims are black or hispanic. Ignore facts that showed the Duke players were innocent ,instead report only what fits your liberal viewpoint. Liberals are very open minded |
| chucho | Posted – 1/22/2008 10:08:41 AM | show profile "...the definition of liberal is having an open mind and the definition of conservative is resistant to change..." That is your definition, based on your narrow political views. THAT'S MY DEFINITION ACCORDING TO THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY. |
| chucho | Posted – 1/22/2008 10:09:32 AM | show profile The media's only ideology is M O N E Y. You are fool if you think otherwise. |
