Republicans’ media bias claims boosted by scarcity of right-leaning journalists

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A mere 7 percent of journalists identify as Republicans, and when they do give money to political campaigns they usually donate to Democrats, lending evidence to Republican presidential candidates’ claims that they are facing a hostile audience when they deal with the press.

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I have known this for years. Not one of the top 3 CNBC Debate Moderators are even voting Republican. The same goes for the CNN Moderators, and virtually any place except Fox News. Journalism Schools are run by hyper Liberals and the students are long indoctrinated by Liberal educators from grade school on. Liberals have purposely taken over the media, education, and bureaucracies, in an attempt to shape the weak minded. It takes a rugged individualist to come out Conservative, Independent, or Libertarian. It is estimated that Democrats have a built in advantage on all elections of approximately 7% due to the bias in the media and educational system.

Liberal organizations will fight to remain Liberal at virtually any cost. Case and point, MSNBC with its horrible ratings could rise by this time next month by a lot by hiring a few Conservative journalists and (3) Conservative or Libertarian talking heads like: Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin, and Larry Elder. Their ratings would boom. Also, Newspapers like NY Times and LA Times would rather make huge cuts in their newsrooms instead of hiring some Conservative or Libertarian writers and editors. They would rather push hardcore left stories and not prosper than consider a balanced delivery of information.

Liberals appear to be about ideology at any cost as well. It's apparent from their candidates like Hillary Clinton who is described by the rest of America as, "Liar", "Dishonest", "Untrustworthy". It simply does not matter. They believe they can use their heavily biased media and educational institutions to force through these flawed candidates.

 

we have a corporate media



pretending they lie for the left is insane

 

And.....most scientists are college graduates, most priests went to seminary, most burger flippers are teenagers, most mothers are female and most lions have teeth. Also, most journalists tend to go where the story is...and truth be told, bad news sells.

 

and FACTS have a liberal bias

 

Then you didn't read my comments. How do you explain the NY Times, LA Times, MSNBC massive failings, yet they refuse to balance their coverage which would save them tons of readers and viewers?

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Yes, we saw that with Dan Rather's Memo and Candy Crowley's lie in a Presidential Debate. Thanks for playing.

 

they are not unbalanced


Your right wing media is just full of lies


we have a corporate media


that is undeniable FACT

 

Of course no corporation has ever been in bed with the government

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Liberals have little use for facts they dont make up

 

that is what the right wants




facism

 

This is what we have now under Obama

 

then why did your party crash the economy on purpose?

 

When where?

 

In all fairness, the same thing could be said for conservatives as well. They have their own agenda, much like the liberals do.

 

every voter has an agenda


how can you people be so silly.

the Media is corporate owned


its a corporate media


it is not a liberal MEDIA

 

Lol...So what do you want? Affirmative action for them?
Maybe if more right-wingers were literate, there would be more right-leaning journalists.
But I suspect that since a lot of them have very poor reading and comprehension skills, they feel more comfortable with right-wing radio jocks shouting nonsense and fulminating about the outrage of the day than trying to read a thoughtful analysis of the issues of the day or watching a PBS news report.

 

Yes it is. Next you will claim that Universities are not liberal bastions.

 

should I bump the threads for you?

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is the media in this country corporate owned?

 

Have you ever stopped for minute to think about what you just typed...it entails two simple possibilities:

1) There is a conspiracy afoot to only accept liberal professors and students in the thousands of higher learning institutes throughout the United States and Europe.

2) Higher education tends to create a more educated population and said education increases the ability to think rationally.

It would seem you equate intelligence with Liberal...I find this rather insulting.

 

Please do.

Sure it is just like GE who some how manages to pay no taxes. All corporations care about is making money and will kiss the ass of whoever will help them

 

I bumped them where are you ?


go to them

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the facts have a liberal bias

 

The only way this could possibly be an issue is with editorials, daily news events don't have political spins. In addition, RWers are always complaining about not being conservative enough where it gets to the point that some yahoos in AZ want Sent McCain censored for not being conservative enough. This whole issue has become a joke of an issue.

 

True but this time its not in dispute. He just dosent like the facts

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Then why does the left always attack FOX News and call it Faux News. Are you now claiming their news shows are fair and balanced and accurate? Im not talking their opinion shows.

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Show me

Obviously not as when showed the facts you said screw them as they dont agree with you.

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/13/AR2008021302783.html



By Eliot Spitzer
Thursday, February 14, 2008



Several years ago, state attorneys general and others involved in consumer protection began to notice a marked increase in a range of predatory lending practices by mortgage lenders. Some were misrepresenting the terms of loans, making loans without regard to consumers' ability to repay, making loans with deceptive "teaser" rates that later ballooned astronomically, packing loans with undisclosed charges and fees, or even paying illegal kickbacks. These and other practices, we noticed, were having a devastating effect on home buyers. In addition, the widespread nature of these practices, if left unchecked, threatened our financial markets.



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Even though predatory lending was becoming a national problem, the Bush administration looked the other way and did nothing to protect American homeowners. In fact, the government chose instead to align itself with the banks that were victimizing consumers.

Predatory lending was widely understood to present a looming national crisis. This threat was so clear that as New York attorney general, I joined with colleagues in the other 49 states in attempting to fill the void left by the federal government. Individually, and together, state attorneys general of both parties brought litigation or entered into settlements with many subprime lenders that were engaged in predatory lending practices. Several state legislatures, including New York's, enacted laws aimed at curbing such practices.

What did the Bush administration do in response? Did it reverse course and decide to take action to halt this burgeoning scourge? As Americans are now painfully aware, with hundreds of thousands of homeowners facing foreclosure and our markets reeling, the answer is a resounding no.

Not only did the Bush administration do nothing to protect consumers, it embarked on an aggressive and unprecedented campaign to prevent states from protecting their residents from the very problems to which the federal government was turning a blind eye.

Let me explain: The administration accomplished this feat through an obscure federal agency called the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). The OCC has been in existence since the Civil War. Its mission is to ensure the fiscal soundness of national banks. For 140 years, the OCC examined the books of national banks to make sure they were balanced, an important but uncontroversial function. But a few years ago, for the first time in its history, the OCC was used as a tool against consumers.

In 2003, during the height of the predatory lending crisis, the OCC invoked a clause from the 1863 National Bank Act to issue formal opinions preempting all state predatory lending laws, thereby rendering them inoperative. The OCC also promulgated new rules that prevented states from enforcing any of their own consumer protection laws against national banks. The federal government's actions were so egregious and so unprecedented that all 50 state attorneys general, and all 50 state banking superintendents, actively fought the new rules.

But the unanimous opposition of the 50 states did not deter, or even slow, the Bush administration in its goal of protecting the banks. In fact, when my office opened an investigation of possible discrimination in mortgage lending by a number of banks, the OCC filed a federal lawsuit to stop the investigation.

Throughout our battles with the OCC and the banks, the mantra of the banks and their defenders was that efforts to curb predatory lending would deny access to credit to the very consumers the states were trying to protect. But the curbs we sought on predatory and unfair lending would have in no way jeopardized access to the legitimate credit market for appropriately priced loans. Instead, they would have stopped the scourge of predatory lending practices that have resulted in countless thousands of consumers losing their homes and put our economy in a precarious position.

When history tells the story of the subprime lending crisis and recounts its devastating effects on the lives of so many innocent homeowners, the Bush administration will not be judged favorably. The tale is still unfolding, but when the dust settles, it will be judged as a willing accomplice to the lenders who went to any lengths in their quest for profits. So willing, in fact, that it used the power of the federal government in an unprecedented assault on state legislatures, as well as on state attorneys general and anyone else on the side of consumers.

The writer is governor of New York.

 

Why do they call it Faux News, because there are countless times that news outlets has been caught airing deceptive news stories with misleading narratives by comedians even, to the point they have made careers out Fox News' stories.

 

because fox news lies

 

...and corporations and the career politicians they own are neither liberal or conservative, but the people their propaganda prey on are.