RE: Main Stream Media
"I don't know exactly what that means, but..."
Absolutely nothing, as far as I can tell. It's like saying that liberals who talk to each other are 300 times more likely to blame George Bush for everything wrong under the sun. The fact that they are more likely to do that doesn't make him any more or less to blame.
"Individual reporters may tend to be left leaning..."
Since something like 80% of all reporters are registered Democrats, that's like saying ice may tend to be cold.
"...but the wealthy executives who make the decisions as to what stories are even examined and discussed, undoubtedly lean towards the right."
Wake up, you're dreaming. Most of the executives who run news organizations wouldn't have a clue what stories are being examined or reported on a day-to-day basis. Look at how the CBS executives were broadsided by the whole Dan Rather fiasco. It's worth mentioning here that Rupert Murdoch, who owns Fox, the network liberals loathe the most, is a self-described liberal and donated money to John Kerry as well as a host of other liberal candidates.
This seems to me to be an appropriate place to use my favorite Mark Twain quote again:
"The awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse."
Absolutely nothing, as far as I can tell. It's like saying that liberals who talk to each other are 300 times more likely to blame George Bush for everything wrong under the sun. The fact that they are more likely to do that doesn't make him any more or less to blame.
"Individual reporters may tend to be left leaning..."
Since something like 80% of all reporters are registered Democrats, that's like saying ice may tend to be cold.
"...but the wealthy executives who make the decisions as to what stories are even examined and discussed, undoubtedly lean towards the right."
Wake up, you're dreaming. Most of the executives who run news organizations wouldn't have a clue what stories are being examined or reported on a day-to-day basis. Look at how the CBS executives were broadsided by the whole Dan Rather fiasco. It's worth mentioning here that Rupert Murdoch, who owns Fox, the network liberals loathe the most, is a self-described liberal and donated money to John Kerry as well as a host of other liberal candidates.
This seems to me to be an appropriate place to use my favorite Mark Twain quote again:
"The awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse."
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