Democrat friendly link available

What exactly does that mean?

heh... love the comment on the democratic friendly link... love it.

>What exactly does that mean?

Actually, it should probably read "Link for people who want to read news from outlets who at least try to look objective instead of blatantly and obviously brainwashing you", but that wasn't the point of the post, anyway.

Yeah, a more accurate (but probably less funny) description would have been, "Link to a legitimate news outlet available here".

Ah, Fox News, the news source that admitted they would prefer to be seen as a foot soldier for Bush, as opposed to a spokesman for Al Queda.

How about trying to be seen as, I dunno, an objective news outlet? I suppose that's just too much to hope for.

Oh Good Lord people.

You have the liberal dominated news outlets of CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, NY Times, Washington Post, and almost the rest.

Fox comes along and shows a little success and you act as if the sky is falling.

too funny.

"liberal dominated news outlets"? I wish... There are no major liberal news outlets in the US of A.

"Liberal dominated news outlets"... yeah, right. The only news outlet on that list which is even slightly liberal is the NY Times; the rest are quite firmly on the right. I'm still looking for this alleged "liberal media" in the US, and haven't found it yet.

The crucial difference between the Washington Post or CNN and Fox News isn't political leaning; it's that The Post and CNN are legitimate news outlets, and Fox News is an entertainment company pretending to be journalists. They have about as much credibility as the National Enquirer.

Actually, it's pretty easy to see which ones are 'liberal' here in Germany -- at least among the English language feeds, because we only have two. On adjacent channels, no less.

CNN looks like a liberal freakfest when put next to BBC World. And obviously Ted Turner considers CNNi an 'entertainment feed' because he has the Daily Show airing at night over here. Not to mention that of the feeds here, CNN looks the crappiest due to too much motion jpeg compression.

Furthermore, NBC-Europe over here is a joke. Either home shopping or GIGA.de, aka 'The Poor Man's CNET'.. where they show 'All Half Life all the time' (basically a bunch of guys playing PC and Console games).

Of course, this is TV... ;)

Latest Gallup Poll shows AGAIN that Americans think the news media are too liberal.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr031008.asp

Even 20% of self-appointed liberals says the news is too liberal.

David --

Wow. You're a pro at spinning numbers, David! I must say, I'm impressed!

If you look, the MAJORITY of Americans actually say that the media is just right or too conservative. Fully 53% feel this way, versus the other 45% feeling it's too liberal. Obviously you can spin the numbers however you want, but that's not going to change the reality that there's a fairly balanced set of opinions out there on whether the news is liberal, just right, or conservative.

Also, who cares if 20% of liberals believe the news is too liberal? 30% say it's too conservative! So again, you're just spinning the numbers, here.

But again -- I must commend you on your awesome number-spinning. You should run for President!

-- simX

simx, first paragraph of article

Forty-five percent of Americans believe the news media in this country are too liberal, while only 14% say the news media are too conservative. These perceptions of liberal inclination have not changed over the last three years. A majority of Americans who describe their political views as conservative perceive liberal leanings in the media, while only about a third of self-described liberals perceive conservative leanings.

David:

Look at the graph. 45% say too liberal. 39% say just right. 14% say too conservative. 39+14 = 53, which is greater than 45. So yes, the majority of Americans (liberal OR conservative) believe that the media is just right or too conservative.

Actually it isn't 'Fox News' -- it's 'Faux News'.

wow, so 84% think it is just right or too liberal?

"Obviously you can spin the numbers however you want, but that's not going to change the reality that there's a fairly balanced set of opinions out there on whether the news is liberal, just right, or conservative."

Get it now?

well, 30-40-30 would be balanced, 20-60-20 would be too... you could even say 26-44-30 (either way) was ballanced, but 45-39-14 isn't so much

"I must commend you on your awesome number-spinning. You should run for President!"

"Get it now?"

From the study, the paragraph under the first graph:

"Americans have been considerably more likely to perceive the news media as too liberal than as too conservative the last four times this question has been posed. One's interpretation of these findings is, to a degree, dependent on one's perspective. It's true that substantially more Americans say that the news media are too liberal than say they are too conservative. At the same time, a majority says that the news media are either too conservative, or just about right."

... which is basically what I said.