Quote Originally Posted by medicinal
Of course the view of the media is biased from the point of the viewer. A right winger sees left and visa-versa, There are few objective viewers, so this discussion can not be quantified or qualified. My personal view (Left leaning) is that the major news channels have not been doing their jobs of exposing the wrongs in the government when they run Anna Nicole Smith 24-7, or Brittiney or the astronaught lady, They should be running pictures of blown up people in Iraq, body bags coming back with Americans in them and 24-7 investigations into War profiteering by the present people in charge of the war. Using Anna nicole to fill time on news shows really shows how much influence the right wing corporations that own them have over the content. Most of us know what is going on, but there are a few that don't and I think these are the people that vote, because they voted the same crowd in a second time (this goes back to my statement about the lack of intelligence in the south). I cant believe that just because a candidate says he's for Jesus and then does everything exactly opposite of what Jesus professed, he can garner the vote of the Christian right. These people are below average intelligence period. They have definently let fantasy trump reality. And back to Fantasy, that is about all you get from the major news outlets, there are a few exceptions, Lou Dobbs comes to mind, Kieth Olberman, and Chris mathews maybe, but all in all, they just put nonsense on the program, stuff my wife likes to watch, (Anna Niccole etc), I love her, but she is definently not political. I'll stick to my preferances and my favorite, Jon Stewart, that is more like news than any major news channel.
you should look into "democracy now" and inn report as a news source. watch it with your wife and tell her this is what real news looks like. i have dish network, and they play it on free speech tv. i know it's on Link Tv (channel) for directTV service...
the reason i say this is because john stewart has his role too. Stephen Colbert helped me realize this as well. Funny how intricate the propa war is.