CNN is biased towards the Clintons. MSNBC is biased towards Obama.

[hiaasenrocks]

All of this talk of media bias reminds me of the way fans of any given sports team view the refs.

Watch any game in any sport and if the home team has a foul or penalty called on them, the home team fans will boo like crazy. If the visiting team suffers the same fate, the fans will cheer and clap. Of course, this is all objective right? Fans will readily admit, each time, that their guy committed the foul. Right? OK, wrong.

When you're rooting for a team (candidate) you are going to agree with the refs (media) when they make a call you agree with, and you agree with the call because it went your team's way.

The same is true with this media bias bullshit, whether it's coming from supporters of one or the other of our Democratic candidates, or whether it's the incessant complaining of media bias that we hear from the right-wing. If anything, there's a bias towards sensationalism, not a particular candidate or ideology.

It is all about perspective.

When Newt Gingrich says the media has a liberal bias, he is correct from where he sits on the far right. When someone from, say, The Nation magazine, accuses the media of having a conservative bias, they are correct from where they sit on the left.

It is all about perspective.

Unless someone can show me a completely objective analysis -- with a wide range of examples, none of this fallacy of dramatic instances -- I'm calling b.s. on the "bias" whiners.

[Mojambo]

1. And both are biased by trying to make a shit-ton of money. n/t

[gateley]

4. They are for-profit corporations. I don't even know if we can consider them

news organizations anymore.

[ingac70]

2. They all sat on their asses...

and did no investigative reporting in the lead up to war with Iraq...and that isn't BS.

The media is full of corporate whore Repubs and DLCers... one in the same.

[hiaasenrocks]

5. Are they cheerleading for the war now?

Again, that's the bias towards sensationalism, not a particular candidate or ideology.

[gateley]

3. IF that's true, and if it's true that Clinton is thinking of canceling an MSNBC

debate, we can expect this to become even more so.

[hiaasenrocks]

6. I didn't say it (the bias) was true.

Did you only read the title?

[gateley]

7. Sorry - I didn't mean to indicate that I though YOU said it was true, just if

the general meme is.

[robbedvoter]

8. I don't think so. CNN is barely slightly less stridently biased towards Obama

Non-partisan group finds huge media bias against Senator Clinton.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4406175&mesg_id=4406175


Since mid-December, when the presidential candidates turned their full attention to the Iowa caucuses, Sen. Barack Obama has led the race for good press and Sen. Hillary Clinton has lagged the farthest behind. From Dec 16 through Jan 27 five out of six on-air evaluations of Obama (84%) have been favorable, compared to a bare majority (51%) of evaluations of Mrs. Clinton

[Thrill]

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