How is the American media "Liberal"?

[GrinKyle]

I am conservative. I hate watching the news. and I can tolerate local news. The local newspaper is my best bet.

GrinKyle Reviewed by GrinKyle on 02-13-2009. How is the American media "Liberal"? You hear it all the time, about the "liberal media" and their bias. I'm a Canadian, but from what I've seen of the American media, it's outrageously conservative, particularly Fox. I mean, really, media outlets that have a consistent underlying support for the righteous of the informal American Empire, that glorify Israel while villifying the freedom fighters, that pay attention to every brainwashed young man who died in Iraq as though he somehow was killed for something that mattered, that Rating: 5

[Shelbay]

So called news is majority reporters opinions,not news or facts.

[luciddreamer]

Newspapers are all opinions. That's fine really, as long as they allow people to counter their arguments as well. But I agree it should be more based on facts and the reporters shouldn't be allowed to have any of their personal spin on the issue.
You see it all the time on Cannabis stories, the reporter always asks the person defending it "Have you smoked today?" when that person tries to put forward their view on the conspiracy, they say something like "that's a little far out there, man". Later on they'll laugh their ass off in a mocking, superior manner.

That laugh, most of all, irks me. It's distinct and you can hear it almost every time one of those stories is run. It tells you the 'reporter' thinks:
they are way above the 'stoners' in morals and social shit etc.
that all stoners are dumb idiots
"why don't they just drink and fit in?"

And that is transferred to the viewer and distorts their opinion.

I can't explain it much better than that, but I've gone off topic here so I'll stop trying.