Media admits it's Bias toward Obama

[daihashi]

I am not sure if you are responding to my post with this comment, but for the record, I am NOT ok with bias in what is supposed to be unbiased reporting.

It was directed at the public in general, not even limited to cannabis.com. It was a general 'you people'. Not specific.

[JakeMartinez]

Is there anything you people don't spin to justify it and make it ok?

The people who are supposed to be reporting the news.. Information/data so we can make our own assessment on a matter are instead injecting their own opinions and presenting it as news.

This may not bother some of you but it bothers me a hell of a lot. It doesn't just happen during the presidential campaign; but I suppose since no one here cares they conveniently overlooked the fact that this happens in every day news reporting also.

I am not ok with this but to each his own.

I wasn't saying it was okay. I was saying it was inevitable and you should just accept it as truth and work around it.

[daihashi]

I wasn't saying it was okay. I was saying it was inevitable and you should just accept it as truth and work around it.

Complacency shouldn't be an option.

[kshchrn831]

Obama had more money the McCain, spent more money than McCain and even after having a large surplus of money Obama begged his supporters to continue to donate money.

So yes Obama spent a lot of money on campaigning and advertisement.

This post was not so much about the election as it was about the news media themselves. This election just provided an example.

I understand that, and thank you for sharing your information regarding my thought.
But what I was getting to, basically,
Well the media controls the television..
these politcal campaigns spend shit tons of money to the media to play the advertisements.

Maybe, because Obama spent more money on/through the media, he got the spot light because of his "donations" to the media.

What is better than money to these media corporations?....
Once again, just a thought.

[JakeMartinez]

Complacency shouldn't be an option.

Do you have a better idea on how to take on the five families of the media?

Personally, as I stated above, there should be a non-profit news source sanctioned but NOT CONTROLLED AT ALL by the government

[Stoner Shadow Wolf]

calling everyone at cannabis.com:


let's all start our own TV station.


WE will run it, WE will censor it (if at all) and WE will control it.


let's start a cannabis commune on a large property, fitted with TV broadcasting equipment!


they switched to digital, so let's get some old analog TV broadcasting equipment for all the poor folks who cant afford to switch to digital!

[zeitgeist]

Cry Cry Cry, the biased liberal media is out to get the conservatives.

So sick of hearing that crap. They are a business. Their job is to make money so they show what they know viewers want to see. Nobody reported on McCain because he is boring. Period. The news wants info that is new, duh
Besides its the same "liberal media" that almost helped bring down clinton as it has done so many other democrats.

[daihashi]

Cry Cry Cry, the biased liberal media is out to get the conservatives.

So sick of hearing that crap. They are a business. Their job is to make money so they show what they know viewers want to see. Nobody reported on McCain because he is boring. Period. The news wants info that is new, duh
Besides its the same "liberal media" that almost helped bring down clinton as it has done so many other democrats.

Who said anything about the 'liberal' media. If you noticed the post is about the media. If you take some time out to read through this entire thread you'll see that this thread attacks neither left nor right but rather a 3rd entity known as the media who's action hurt an entire nation.

This discussion isn't necessarily about Obama; he just provided an example that a news publication had indirectly confessed to..

But again you would've had to of looked at more than the thread title that happened to have Obama's name in it to understand that.

[delusionsofNORMALity]

i don't recall any propaganda about john mccain having a racist wife and being a secret muslim terrorist who hates america and plans to abandon israel while teaching american five year olds how to have sexual intercourse...compared to the anti-obama propaganda, the anti-mccain propaganda was quite tame

propaganda has little to do with the sensational, it is most influential when it steadily drills into the public the fundaments of an agenda until people begin to believe in that agenda without question. by harping on those few things wrong with the workings of capitalism, the media has convinced a majority of the population that the entire system is at fault and has handed us the socialist ideology of the ivory tower left as our only salvation. with that ideology they also handed us our next president.

the desperate attempts by his opponents that you have pointed out were never enough to stem that tide of propaganda and even those were ladled out in such a fashion as to appear ludicrous. the anti-war machine has painted the democratic party as the great opponent of our foolhardy venture into iraq, even though they too profit from each bloodbath, and the republicans as blood crazed fiends, intent only on the accumulation of power through the force of arms. the media has given us our imminent ecological and social demise, blaming both on the uncaring greed of those evil corporations. while showing us the altruistic motives of a liberal establishment, intent on spreading the nations riches and forcing harsh penalties and restrictions on business; they have also given us the conservative faction as the henchmen of a callous capitalist empire, whose only goal is wealth at the expense of nature and the poor. if you cannot see the intent in all this, then i fear you have already become one of the true believers that these streams of information were made to create.

the intent of this propaganda is not merely the election of some temporary political animal, but the promotion of an entire ideology that runs contrary to the goals of this country as a whole and is designed to limit the freedoms of its people as individuals. it is another attempt to end this experiment in individual liberty and replace it with the outmoded concept of each man as just another member of the complacent herd. seldom is any mention ever made of the inherent corruption of the massive bureaucracy needed to control such a herd, that might give us a glimmer of the truth behind the rhetoric of change.

[psychocat]

In my experience all media outlets have thier "audience", they cater to thier own demographic and have thier own political bias.
All media is influenced by the beliefs of whoever has the final say in what is to be broadcast , if the editing staff is more inclined to one direction or another then you will see (or hear) that in the final product.