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Who is this liberal media I keep hearing about?

Posted on 9/25/19 at 9:00 am
Posted by Cheese Grits
Wherever I lay my hat is my home
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Posted on 9/25/19 at 9:00 am
I live in the South


RADIO
Talk Radio is my neighborhood is certainly not left leaning. Across multiple stations I get 24 / 7 / 365 nut jobs peddling fear and loathing for ratings and paychecks. It has been this way for a good 20 - 30 years (especially as ownership has gone from local and regional families to a national company that owns all of them).

Several hispanic stations have popped up in the past decade or two but I don't speak the language so are these all liberal and I just don't understand it? Even if this is the liberal media, seems they all have weak signals which would indicate low listening numbers.

University Station plays classical music most of the time with news broadcasts on the hour that may lean slightly left. But outside of old farts like me, who listens to classical music anymore. Not exactly a ratings bonanza to change the hearts and minds of the masses.

I don't have satellite radio at home or in my car, is this where all the liberal media hangs out?


TV / CABLE
ABC / CBS / NBC don't seem to far to either extreme and peddle to the game show and soap opera crowds so not much need to push to the far left or far right crowd
FOX is right leaning but Murdoch always said he was running entertainment for ratings dollars and not reporting real news if there was no profit in it. Never should have let him have citizenship just so he could own more media in the US. American Media should really be owned by native born Americans.
CNN seems to push both sides and without a war do we really need 24 / 7 news?
MSNBC seems to be the opposite of FOX but you tune in there to get the news you want
BBC (non US version) gives a different world view but not sure all left driven


NEWSPAPERS
State papers are clearly not left leaning as they have been consolidated into national concerns who don't spend money on good reporters anymore
Wall Street Journal got purchased by that crazy Australian, but they don't seem left
USA Today their sports have gone from less college to more pro, not mush in that anymore except the entertainment section
NYT and WP I get these might lean left but who reads them anymore? Harder and harder to find either for local consumption
Daily Racing Form I don't get a political lean but still the best handicapping source

SOCIAL MEDIA
Don't do Facebook, MySpace, or AOL
Don't do Twitter as seems only Twits use it
Don't watch "reality shows" or "shopping channels"



TL : DR folks

So I have 5 min news segments on the hour on classical radio station, MSNBC, and 2 newspapers on the east coast? If this is all the "liberal media" has, are they even a pimple on an elephants arse, much less a credible threat to the US government or way of life?
Posted by Lsupimp
Ersatz Amerika-97.6% phony & fake
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86146 posts
Posted on 9/25/19 at 9:02 am to
Mmkay Margaret.
Posted by SCLibertarian
Conway, South Carolina
Member since Aug 2013
42020 posts
Posted on 9/25/19 at 9:02 am to
quote:

CNN seems to push both sides and without a war do we really need 24 / 7 news? 


Posted by Philzilla2k
Member since Oct 2017
12737 posts
Posted on 9/25/19 at 9:02 am to
About 90 percent of your assertions are false.
Posted by 91TIGER
Lafayette
Member since Aug 2006
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Posted on 9/25/19 at 9:03 am to
quote:

About 90 percent of your assertions are false.


Posted by Erin Go Bragh
Beyond the Pale
Member since Dec 2007
14918 posts
Posted on 9/25/19 at 9:03 am to
Look for the news outlets reporting 90 plus percent negative stories on Donald Trump. I believe some were mentioned in the OP.
Posted by MileHighDraw
Member since May 2018
1910 posts
Posted on 9/25/19 at 9:03 am to
You’re an absolute idiot.
Posted by Darth_Vader
A galaxy far, far away
Member since Dec 2011
73447 posts
Posted on 9/25/19 at 9:04 am to
quote:

Cheese Grits



Your momma never whipped your arse with a hickory switch for lying and it shows.
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
298305 posts
Posted on 9/25/19 at 9:05 am to
quote:

ABC / CBS / NBC don't seem to far to either extreme and peddle to the game show and soap opera crowds so not much need to push to the far left or far right crowd
FOX is right leaning but Murdoch always said he was running entertainment for ratings dollars and not reporting real news if there was no profit in it. Never should have let him have citizenship just so he could own more media in the US. American Media should really be owned by native born Americans.
CNN seems to push both sides and without a war do we really need 24 / 7 news?


When you're so far left that you think CNN and ABC/NBC are moderate, you're in lala land.
Posted by roadGator
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Posted on 9/25/19 at 9:06 am to
Dude. WTF?
Posted by TaderSalad
mudbug territory
Member since Jul 2014
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Posted on 9/25/19 at 9:06 am to
quote:

Cheese Grits



Posted by rich4pres
Knoxville
Member since Dec 2016
11252 posts
Posted on 9/25/19 at 9:06 am to
Is this guy serious?
Posted by Cheese Grits
Wherever I lay my hat is my home
Member since Apr 2012
62024 posts
Posted on 9/25/19 at 9:06 am to
CNN got hot with the Gulf War and 24 / reports on bombings and night vision. It was like the Vietnam War on steroids but back then you had only 3 channels and Vietnam War news was pretty much limited to the nightly news. After the late news all those channels shut down and did not open till the farm reports the next morning.

Seems CNNs need to have fewer hours, but like ESPN, they have lots of dead space between the live action so they have all the unnecessary filler to make the advertisers happy.
Posted by Godfather1
What WAS St George, Louisiana
Member since Oct 2006
88930 posts
Posted on 9/25/19 at 9:06 am to
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ABC / CBS / NBC don't seem to far to either extreme


quote:

CNN seems to push both sides


Wow. Just...wow.

Either you’re really obtuse or just aren’t paying attention, i.e, you’ve got this stuff on as background noise.

What you say about CNN alone defies credulity.
Posted by imjustafatkid
Alabama
Member since Dec 2011
65585 posts
Posted on 9/25/19 at 9:06 am to
I use a Roku app called Haystack. It compiles a bunch of different news segments from a bunch of different sources and I pick the segments I want to watch. Without fail, every segment dealing with politics from literally every platform available is slanted to the left. Once they start pushing their opinion into the story I switch to a different segment.

ETA: I've noticed that the ABC News segments are extreme left.
This post was edited on 9/25/19 at 9:08 am
Posted by BigJim
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2010
15063 posts
Posted on 9/25/19 at 9:08 am to
quote:

CNN seems to push both sides and without a war do we really need 24 / 7 news?


If you really think this, then yeah, I can see how the media doesn't seem liberal to you.

But maybe, just maybe you are a liberal who can't see the bias?
Posted by bird35
Georgia
Member since Sep 2012
13606 posts
Posted on 9/25/19 at 9:08 am to
This illustrates a huge problem in our Nation.

OP is a swing voter.

Uninformed, gullible, stupid and unwilling to put forth the effort to correct any of these shortcomings.

Yet, he and those like him swing back and forth and sway elections.
Posted by Cheese Grits
Wherever I lay my hat is my home
Member since Apr 2012
62024 posts
Posted on 9/25/19 at 9:09 am to
quote:

90 percent of your assertions are false.


That did not answer the question Einstein, who are the "liberal media" besides...

MSNBC
Washington Post
New York Times


If you are smart, tell me who they are so I will be smarter too?
Posted by MMauler
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Member since Jun 2013
24416 posts
Posted on 9/25/19 at 9:10 am to
quote:

TV / CABLE
ABC / CBS / NBC don't seem to far to either extreme and peddle to the game show and soap opera crowds so not much need to push to the far left or far right crowd

CNN seems to push both sides and without a war do we really need 24 / 7 news?

MSNBC seems to be the opposite of FOX but you tune in there to get the news you want

BBC (non US version) gives a different world view but not sure all left driven





I'm sorry, but you just cannot be THIS F*CKING STUPID.
Posted by TigerMyth36
River Ridge
Member since Nov 2005
41494 posts
Posted on 9/25/19 at 9:11 am to
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