Major Smackdown of Rightwingers from Salon

[Unmarked Poster]

"A Challenge to Rightwing Bloggers Who Blame the Media for the Cheney Mess: Prove it. One of the great absurdities of our time is the persistent notion that the traditional media skews left. Reporters buy into it, Democratic strategists and leaders buy into it, and rank and file rightwingers live by it. As I've written previously, the right controls all branches of government, talk radio is dominated by rightwing voices, there's a cable channel devoted to the rightwing perspective (and two others racing to do the same), there's a herd of rightwing pundits spewing anti-left venom across editorial pages, radio, television, the internet, etc., Bush's press conferences are cloying jokefests, and "neutral" journalists echo deep-seated pro-GOP myths.

"Despite the glaringly obvious fact that major media narratives favor the right, we get bloggers like this, this, and this attacking the "MSM" for hyping the Cheney hunting scandal. Rather than waste cyber-ink explaining why it's a big deal that the Vice President of the United States shot a man in the face and heart and went to bed without letting the American people know about it, let me share a question I asked of a blogger at Real Clear Politics who questioned my premise about the pro-Bush press...

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"So here's my challenge to rightwing bloggers who assail the media for liberal bias (and to journalists who think it's all a he-said-she-said pissing match): Back up your claims. With concrete examples of bias. And without the tautological crutch that any story critical of the administration is proof of liberal bias.

I'll back up mine..."

Read on for a massive takedown of the SCLM: http://daoureport.salon.com/synopsis.aspx?synopsisId=e71b1310-cf02-4686-a7b5-c132f351e4ad

[seabeyond]

1. i have been using this argument for a year, effectively

when i get liberal media i tell them to give me one example when something positive has been said about ANY democrat. or when anything positive has been said about the deomcratic party as a whole

and the people i have said this too, not only could they not give me an answer, i have never heard liberal media from them again

[nicknameless]

2. Great article!

Welcome to DU :hi:

[Unmarked Poster]

3. Thank you

:)

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. Pete Daou...

has been a very active DU'er in the past. Very active indeed.