There's no media bias, our trolls tell us

[DoctorDoom]

Appearing on FNC’s The O’Reilly Factor last week, ABC News Political Director Mark Halperin admitted that the media elite have a bias problem. Citing this year’s adulatory coverage of liberal Democrat Nancy Pelosi compared to the mean-spirited coverage the networks dumped on Newt Gingrich back in 1994, Halperin confessed: "If I were a conservative, I understand why I would feel suspicious that I was not going to get a fair break at the end of an election."

A new study released today by the non-partisan Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA) confirms the bias: more than three fourths (77%) of ABC, CBS and NBC evening news references to Democrats this fall have been favorable, while 88% of the coverage given GOP candidates has been negative, an unprecedented disparity.Media: Treats for Liberals, Tricks for GOP (http://www.mrc.org/realitycheck/2006/fax20061031.asp)

And the morons wonder why their ratings and their circulations are on a steady decline. They've sold their souls to the DemonRATs and utterly abandoned journalistic integrity. I sincerely wish those sorry bastards a flurry of bankruptcies.

[John Galt]

Halperin of all people? So now the fish knows it's wet?

I can't help but to think that this is equivalent to when Clinton said that the era of big government was over. The MSM is having one of their periodic introspective phases and when it's over they will be right back to the vast (Haliburton) right (Haliburton) wing (Haliburton) global (Haliburton) warming and Bush planned 9/11 conspiracy.

[Faithful_Servant]

If you're interested, George Mason University did a really good study on media bias - http://mason.gmu.edu/~atabarro/MediaBias.doc

[d'urville]

77 positive for one party, 88 percent negative for the other, this is a bigger discrepency than usual. Alternative media is somehow pushing the Old Media further to the left, exactly the direction they shouldn't go.

It's been known for decades that the MSM, in particular, the major newspapers and the Big Three, were tilted far to the left, no matter what other liberals said. They were at the peak of their power during Watergate/VietNam, but can't go home again.

[Teenager]

I wonder how my liberal friends at a liberal forum will take this news. I'm sure they'll call it BS...

[Wyatt_Junker]

Scooter Libby is libeled for nearly a year by the MSM. After Armitage and Novak, among others, make it clear that he didn't have anything to do with the "leak", the MSM fails to clean up its mess.

Now, go onto any lib board and you'll find a majority of libs who still believe Scooter was the VP leaker.

Now multiply this by a hundred. Everyday we get disinformation. Its almost as bad as the loudspeakers on vans cruising through Pongyang neighborhoods extolling the virtues of Kim II Sung before he bit the shit. And that's not an exaggeration. It really is that bad.