Politiks

agentkgb · Sun May 06, 2007 1:00 am Media Bias

I don't think the media is biased left or right, just for profit. When the war's going badly, for instance, they'll focus on celebrities, since most people don't want to hear bad war news and would rather hear about celebrities, so it's profitable.

Maximus Vigilus · Sun May 06, 2007 2:45 am

The media shows what sells plain and simple.

Redneck · Sun May 06, 2007 3:15 am

to have a free media, it needs to be more liberal than conservitive or it will stagnate and it would eventually no longer be a free media.

Citizen187 · Sun May 06, 2007 11:52 am

A lot of it might be what sells, but everyone has interests, and rich people who own major media corporations have interests that lean conservative.

Maximus Vigilus · Sun May 06, 2007 4:41 pm

Citizen187 wrote: A lot of it might be what sells, but everyone has interests, and rich people who own major media corporations have interests that lean conservative.

True, but either way the media makes money.

Houndstooth · Sun May 06, 2007 6:13 pm

Media shows what sells, and what sells to the general population is gossip and entertaining topics. Thus, we rarely hear about the war - rather, we hear about how badly the war is going. It's the stigma that goes along with something as bland (to put it lightly) as "Five soldiers were lost in combat today" that makes that entertaining.

Media bias is actually fun; it provided entertainment in my English class. Our teacher was a hippy, liberal, feminist, and one of the guys on my side of the room was conservative (and I don't know what else). He would always get defensive when she gave him the eyebrow after he mentioned watching Fox news. "I know, Mrs. ___ - I watch one hour of Fox every day and one hour of CNN." (exasperated tone of voice).

Dark Blaze · Sun May 06, 2007 10:39 pm

I don't care who Angelina Jolie is going out with. If it's not me, I could care less.

Give me real news.

Houndstooth · Mon May 07, 2007 1:07 am

Dark Blaze wrote: Give me real news. Roger Clemons is coming back to the Yankees.

Roy's Our Boy · Mon May 07, 2007 3:28 am

Houndstooth wrote: Roger Clemons is coming back to the Yankees.

Hah, Yankees are not doing so great I hear.

Dark Blaze wrote: I don't care who Angelina Jolie is going out with. If it's not me, I could care less.

Give me real news.

I concur.

Bob Frankenberry · Mon May 07, 2007 3:29 am

Fox News has a conservative bias.

Everywhere else, by comparison, has a liberal bias.

Of course, they're all still out for a profit. And ratings.

If people don't watch CNN, CNN can't exist.