It would make one think that gosh, this whole thing about the media being liberal is bullshit

[kpete]

Where are our heartland diner stories? Our profiles of surging voters who "upset the status quo" with "maverick politicians"? How come voters in blue states that got bluer and purple states that went blue and red districts that flipped aren't getting the Trump voter treatment?

Weird how more than a week after a Democratic wave electing tons of women and further diversifying our government, the mainstream media isn't giving us lavish profiles of Democratic voters who rejected the GOP and Trump.


It would make one think that gosh, this whole thing about the media being liberal is bullshit, and that the mainstream media caters to Republican whims while minimizing the rest of us no matter the political power we display.

Link to tweet

[rurallib]

1. Sunday talking heads will have to have tons of Trumpublicans on to analyze

their great victory.

Oh and a couple of Democrats to diss on Pelosi

[Fullduplexxx]

2. This should be sent to cnn msnbc etc ...

[dlk]

3. Former VP, Spito Agnew, Started the "Liberal Media" Fiction When His Crimes Were Being Reported

Corporations by their very nature are conservative. That includes the corporate and conservative media. It is an excellent example of cognitive processing and the way our brains take in new information—if a lie is repeated often enough we begin to believe it and it becomes “ common knowledge.”

[90-percent]

4. My lifelong hero

On "the liberal media"

I got good taste in lifelong heros, doncha think? "A Candy Coated DICTATORSHIP"

-90% Jimmy

[shadowmayor]

10. Speaking Truth to Power

At St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast - where I stole the margarine!

[malthaussen]

5. Funny how that works.

Also funny how anyone could ever think that major corporate entities would be "liberal" to begin with.

-- Mal

[The Genealogist]

6. Odd, isn't it?

Seems pretty clear where corporate media priorities lie. Oh, they'll throw in a few liberal voices here and there, to look all balanced. But the main narrative is quite clear.

[EndGOPPropaganda]

7. Rightwing propaganda controls our media

https://www.vox.com/2018/10/23/18004478/hack-gap-explained

Propaganda gap

How and why conservative nonsense dominates American politics

The hack gap explains why Clinton’s email server received more television news coverage than all policy issues combined in the 2016 election. It explains why Republicans can hope to get away with dishonest spin about preexisting conditions. It’s why Democrats are terrified that Elizabeth Warren’s past statements about Native American heritage could be general election poison in 2020, and it’s why an internecine debate about civility has been roiling progressive circles for nearly two years even while the president of the United States openly praises assaulting journalists.

The hack gap has two core pillars. One is the constellation of conservative media outlets — led by Fox News and other Rupert Murdoch properties like the Wall Street Journal editorial page, but also including Sinclair Broadcasting in local television, much of AM talk radio, and new media offerings such as Breitbart and the Daily Caller — that simply abjure anything resembling journalism in favor of propaganda.

The other is that the self-consciousness journalists at legacy outlets have about accusations of liberal bias leads them to bend over backward to allow the leading conservative gripes of the day to dominate the news agenda. Television producers who would never dream of assigning segments where talking heads debate whether it’s bad that the richest country on earth also has millions of children growing up in dire poverty think nothing of chasing random conservative shiny objects, from “Fast & Furious” (remember that one?) to Benghazi to the migrant caravan.

And more than Citizens United or even gerrymandering, it’s a huge constant thumb on the scale in favor of the political right in America.

[Baltimike]

8. The "liberal media" has been the CONSERVATIVE PRESS all along. nt

[meadowlander]

18. It's always been the corporate press, not necessarily liberal or conservative.

The media is funded by advertising dollars, separation of church and state notwithstanding, and are increasingly owned by multi-national conglomerates.

Their reporting is skewed to reflect corporate interests, to maintain the status quo as long as that keeps money rolling in. It isn't inherently "conservative" in the sense of always supporting Republicans but it is biased against any disruption of the system that threatens corporate bottom lines.

Trump is a threat because of his unpredictability, tariffs, threats to cheap labour supply, lack of understanding of basic economic principles and blustering attacks against actually competent business-people who criticise him.

That's why the mainstream media has found their spine - not because of any inherent sympathy with progressive causes.

[Baltimike]

20. No idea why you think that hair needs to be split, but I'm not capitulating. CONSERVATIVE PRESS

Trump is dangerous because the conservative press reports his lies without repute OR refute.

Trump is dangerous because the conservative press is bent toward CONSERVATIVES, which is why so many of them have their own show.

"Their reporting is skewed to reflect corporate interests" <<<<<------- you could have stopped there. Really.

[Mr. Ected]

9. The liberal media is yet another straw man in the right wing arsenal

Unfortunately, with the lines between news and opinion blurred these days, it's easier and easier for them to misdirect and confuse the issue to the masses who aren't paying attention.

[Oneironaut]

11. The media is pro-money.

They’ll tell you anything to keep watching. Sometimes their greed helps Democrats, and sometimes it helps Republicans. They’re totally profit-driven now, which is why tools like Rudy Giuliani and Anthony Scaramucci are allowed on TV.

[JI7]

12. same reason white mass shooters are about mental illness

and black/ brown people are thugs, criminals, terrorists, illegal etc.


just look at a brown child being torn away from their parents. but an adult white person like melania gets to bring her family here and become citizens.

[hibbing]

13. Iraq war

Don't ever forget how that whole build up played out in the corporate media. Let alone the media's collective orgasm when the fake pilot did his macho landing on the aircraft carrier for Mission Accomplished.

Peace

[orleans]

14. as an aside

thom hartmann said he used to refer to "meet the press" as "meet the republicans"

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

15. I listen to wingnut radio 10 minutes a day to inoculate myself for when I visit my sister-in-law

on Thanksgiving. She listens to Alex Jones daily because, "He tells you the truth."

Last night the rant was about how liberal the courts are. This despite the fact that the Republican senate held open 90+ seats during the Clinton years so Bush could fill them with Federalist Society members, and they did the same thing with 100+ seats they didn't let Obama fill in anticipation of a Republican being the next president. (They didn't expect it would be Comrade Crazy, I'll bet.)

And we all know the legend of Merrick Garland and McConnell's "greatest achievement of my life."

They really do live in a fact-free bubble, don't they?

[gilligan]

16. Key Word.

" CORPORATE"

[UpInArms]

17. Here's the media ownership chart as of June 2018

[Scurrilous]

19. K&R