The hell? I always thought that the news was corporate news not government news. This is messed up. We need answers.

Well, disregarding the obvious nature of Fox "entertainment" News, it is evident that the political parties have an undo influence on media for years now.

While this is not shocking to hear them admit, for many people, it is scary that they want ANOTHER outlet to peddle their ideology.

Anyone still wondering if it doesn't matter that the corporations controlling our media are owned by something like, 5 people?

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I hate to say it...but this is coming from the Daily KOS, it wouldn't surprise me if the Democrats ran this website (which...they do, actually, it is a very partisan site)

C-SPAN is the only non-slanted source.
Why?
Because it's basically just a camera watching everything going on and I don't think they have any talking heads.

Fox? Really? I thought everyone knew it has very strong GOP influence.
Not sure if they own it, though. Good question. Probably endorse it monetarily.

Also let's ignore the fact that the CEO of GE (who OWNS NBC and MSNBC) is one of Obama's economic advisors.

I know everyones likes to nail FOX on this stuff...and much of it is justified...but everyone seems to ignore what the other stations are doing.

Obviously this isn't news to most reasonable folk.

But I think there is a more significant point from this statement that is being missed ...

What this Republican gentleman is actually saying is that the issue for the Republican party isn't its platform or message, but that what the Republican party needs to win future elections is more biased exposure to even out what he and others perceive as a marketing imbalance.

I'm afraid that if this remedy is what the party is counting on for future success they can look forward to being the minority for a long time.

I'm not surprised whatsoever it is blatantly obvious what FOX has been up to all this time. I think the problem was that during the Bush years it was almost like Orwellian double-speak when they used to keep telling you how Fair and Balanced they were when it was obvious they were just a neocon mouthpiece.
That was scary!

Name one liberal show on Fox.

These days it seems they have dropped the "fair and balanced" thing to just now claim that every single other news source is so completely blatantly liberal that they HAVE to be conservative to "show the other side". Fair enough. At least admit it!

Originally posted by David9176
Also let's ignore the fact that the CEO of GE (who OWNS NBC and MSNBC) is one of Obama's economic advisors.

I know everyones likes to nail FOX on this stuff...and much of it is justified...but everyone seems to ignore what the other stations are doing.

I couldn't agree with you more

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To "report" something like this just plays into the false left/right paradigm. The left/right is theater for the sheeple to make it appear there is a choice. The media is all owned and controlled by different factions of the PTB. Each "side" must have an outlet for its partisan view to keep the illusion of choice alive.

I think it is called freedom of speech, why should we only have left wing liberal news?

Why is there more then one political party?

How do we keep one another in check?

Why is there a defense attorney and a prosecuting attorney?

There is so little pro christian and pro right, would you silence the last vestige?

Of course you would.


Ma'at

The pendulum can only swing so far one way, before it swings back the other.

Places your heart on the Scales of Justice.

The fifth thing that Republicans have to do is understand the problem of communicating in a world where much of the television media, particularly, is hostile.

MSNBC tried conservatism for a while and it was found to be unmarketable so they changed. For a time most of their commentators were conservative. They have/had Joe Scarborough, Tucker Carlson, Dennis Miller, and Michael Savage. Even Don Imus was at least conservative enough to have John McCain on his program on MSNBC regularly.

Today there are less conservative commentators on MSNBC, but only because the public would not accept it. Thus the station went more liberal in an attempt to maintain viewership and advertising dollars.

The free market spoke. Social/fiscal conservatism can only prop up one cable news station.