Blaming the Media Seems to Be in Full Swing

As predicted, the media is becoming the scapegoat for one of the most, if not the most, inept run campaign in modern history. I think Ann Coulter nailed this one early on. Mitt Willard Romney is the worst candidate ever put up by the Right and then of course she endorsed him.

You simply can't blame the media for reporting your own words and actions. If the media has to any extent gone overboard reporting the most badly run campaign in memory, the Right-wing media has easily balanced it out with their unwavering support for Romney.

 

I believe it's obvious, to anyone willing to be honest, that the media under reports anything that can perceived as a negative for BO.

 

What the media isn't telling you about our economy​

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Judging from the media coverage, you might think that our economy was improving. You’d be wrong.
The truth is that the slowest recovery on record appears destined to set even more records for slow growth. That’s not good news for President Obama. And more bad economic news hit him this past week. Here's a short list of indicators:

-- Slow GDP growth: GDP rose at an annual rate of just 1.25% during April through June, barely keeping up with the growth in population. The economy has been getting slower and slower since the end of last year.

-- Durable goods orders plunged 13.2 percent in August.

-- Median household income has actually fallen. Income has dropped from $53,718 to $50,678 since the “recovery” started in June 2009.

Despite all this, the news media has been uncharacteristically cheerful the last couple of months. Take some of the newspaper headlines from August, when the unemployment rate had gone up again for the second time in three months, rising from 8.2 to 8.3 percent. The Wall Street Journal headline read: “Job Gains Spark Stock Rally.” The New York Times reported: “Hiring Picks Up in July, but Data Gives No Clear Signal.”

These headlines can’t truly be labeled “dishonest,” but they are misleading. Initial job growth was reported to be 163,000 (later revised downward to 141,000), but the working age population had grown by 198,000.
The media decided to emphasize the small grain of positive news that they could find in the report which was the slight uptick in jobs.

But the press isn’t always so consistent. You won't be surprised to learn that when there is a Democratic president in the White House, the media tend to view things in a positive light. When Republicans are at the helm, they are more negative.

Kevin Hassett at the American Enterprise Institute and I recently studied newspaper headlines from 1985 to 2004. We looked at the percentage of newspaper headlines that were positive when new economic numbers were released. For example, after accounting for the unemployment rate and new jobs and whether those numbers were increasing or decreasing, we looked at the percentage of newspaper headlines for those stories that could be classified as positive, negative, neutral or mixed.

Here's what we found: For the top 10 largest newspapers, for the same types of unemployment news, the headlines were 15 to 16 percent more positive when a Democrat was president.

Today, it appears that the mainstream press is particularly eager to support President Obama. They are bending over backward to spin the economic numbers in a positive way.

In September and August, The Wall Street Journal and New York Times gave Obama slightly more positive headlines than Bill Clinton would have received with the same economic news.

President Obama also got more than 20 percent more positive headlines than our data indicated that similarly situated Republicans would have gotten. This more positive coverage has a real impact on people’s perceptions of the economy. More positive headlines raised people’s perceptions that the economy was getting better. The average difference in positive headlines between Democrats and Republicans produced about a four-percentage point increase in respondents viewing the economy as getting better.

In a close election, that difference can mean a lot.

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Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/10/01/what-media-isnt-telling-about-our-economy/#ixzz289PESeJz​

 

ABC Reporter Acknowledges Media Bias Toward the President; Greg Gutfeld: ‘Obama’s Their Justin Bieber’


President Obama has been criticized for not taking enough questions from the correspondents who cover the White House. On Monday, the president made a surprise appearance at a White House press briefing, and immediately provided material for late night comic Jay Leno. Coincidentally, the reporter used in Leno’s joke was ABC correspondent Jake Tapper, who told radio host Laura Ingraham yesterday that the press may have given Obama a pass in 2008.
He told Ingraham, “I have said before that I thought the media helped tip the scales. You know, I didn’t think the coverage in 2008 was especially fair to either Hillary Clinton or John McCain.”
Today on The Five, Juan Williams spoke of his experience covering the Reagan administration. He acknowledged that people talked about media bias but “the issue there was who had access and what you had to do to get access.”
Williams said that it’s always been known that more reporters are liberal than conservative, especially when it comes to newspaper owners, but he doesn’t think there’s anything shocking about that notion.
Andrea Tantaros called Jake Tapper’s comments insightful, and added to Williams’ point that reporters need access in order to keep their jobs. However, she said, “At the end of the day, they really believe this stuff. They really believe what [Obama’s] doing and so that’s why they don’t question it.”
Greg Gutfeld had a different, and in some ways harsher, analysis of the media, “All Obama is to the media is their Justin Bieber without the bangs. But the difference for the media and young girls — young girls grow up, the media stays the same.”

 

From Wikipedia:

Liberal bias

Liberal bias in the media occurs when liberal ideas have undue influence on the coverage or selection of news stories.
Conservative critics of the media say some bias exists within a wide variety of media channels including network news shows of CBS, ABC, and NBC, cable channels CNN, MSNBC and Current TV, as well as major newspapers, news-wires, and radio outlets, especially CBS News, Newsweek, and the New York Times.[21]These arguments intensified when it was revealed that the Democratic Party received a total donation of $1,020,816, given by 1,160 employees of the three major broadcast television networks (NBC, CBS, ABC), while the Republican Party received only $142,863 via 193 donations.[22] Both of these figures represent donations made in 2008.
A study cited frequently by critics of a "liberal media bias" in American journalism is The Media Elite, a 1986 book co-authored by political scientists Robert Lichter, Stanley Rothman, and Linda Lichter.[23] They surveyed journalists at national media outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the broadcast networks. The survey found that most of these journalists were Democratic voters whose attitudes were well to the left of the general public on a variety of topics, including such hot-button social issues as abortion, affirmative action, and gay rights. Then they compared journalists' attitudes to their coverage of controversial issues such as the safety of nuclear power, school busing to promote racial integration, and the energy crisis of the 1970s. The authors concluded that journalists' coverage of controversial issues reflected their own attitudes, and the predominance of political liberals in newsrooms therefore pushed news coverage in a liberal direction. They presented this tilt as a mostly unconscious process of like-minded individuals projecting their shared assumptions onto their interpretations of reality.
In a survey conducted by the American Society of Newspaper Editors in 1997, 61% of reporters stated that they were members of or shared the beliefs of the Democratic Party. Only 15% say their beliefs were best represented by the Republican Party.[24] This leaves 24% undecided or Independent.
A 2002 study by Jim A. Kuypers of Dartmouth College, Press Bias and Politics, investigated the issue of media bias. In this study of 116 mainstream US papers, including The New York Times, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle, Kuypers stated that the mainstream press in America tends to favor liberal viewpoints. They argued that reporters who they thought were expressing moderate or conservative points of view were often labeled as holding a minority point of view. Kuypers said he found liberal bias in reporting a variety of issues including race, welfare reform, environmental protection, and gun control.[25]
A joint study by the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University and the Project for Excellence in Journalism found that viewers believe that liberal media bias can be found in television news by networks such as CNN.[26] These findings concerning a perception of liberal bias in television news – particularly at CNN – are also reported by other sources.[27]

 

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A study by political scientists Tim Groseclose of UCLA and Jeff Milyo of the University of Missouri at Columbia attempted to quantify bias among news outlets using statistical models.[28][29] The research highlighted surprising conclusions; the news pages of The Wall Street Journal are more liberal than The New York Times, despite the conservative reputation of The Drudge Report its news reporting leans left, and the news reporting of PBS is to the right of most mainstream media. The report also states that the news media show a fair degree of centrism, since all but one of the outlets studied are, from an ideological point of view, between the average Democrat and average Republican in Congress. This may be because organizations perceived to be extremist may have difficulty getting access to news material such as interviews.[30]
The study met with criticism from media outlets and academics, including the Wall Street Journal,[31] and Media Matters.[32] Criticisms included:

• Different lengths of time studied per media (CBS News was studied for 12 years while the Wall Street Journal was studied for four months).
• Lack of context in quoting sources (sources quoted were automatically assumed to be supporting the article)
• Lack of balance in sources (Liberal sources such as the NAACP didn't have conservative or counter sources that could add balance)
• Flawed political positions of sources (Sources such as the NRA and RAND corporation were considered "liberal" while sources such as the American Civil Liberties Union were "conservative".)

Mark Liberman, a professor of Computer Science and the Director of Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania, critiqued the statistical model used in this study.[33][34] The model used by Groseclose and Milyo assumes that conservative politicians do not care about the ideological position of think tanks they cite, while liberal ones do. Professor Liberman characterizes this unsupported assumption as preposterous, and argues that it leads to implausible conclusions.[33]

 

Like I said, you can't fault the media for reporting the truth and all of the wining in the world won't change the fact that your candidate is a dog. Not the kind of dog you carry on the roof of your car or anything but a dog just the same.

Do you guys honestly believe that Romney will win this thing? Seriously? Well, you too can blame the media. Don't let the fact that several of Romney's direct advisers work for Fox News dissuade you from your beliefs. I'm sure that they are fair and balanced.

 

All one simply needs to do, in order to see the scale at which information is kept from the people (& manipulated), is spend a few minutes with a dim. Fast & Furious, Keystone Pipeline, the recent terrorist attacks in Libya...just to name a few...are examples of how the reporting protects BO.

 

Actually their biggest fault is NOT reporting the detrimental news. I do not remember anyone really complaining about lies (with a couple NBC exceptions), but rather not reporting the news that should be reported.

 

Well, let's hope that they can live up to your personal biases and then all will be fair.

 

So far, most are doing a superb job of living in your prejudiced world.

 

File this under "news the media won't report":

http://www.theledger.com/article/20121002/NEWS/121009912

BO is advocating the skirting of federal law to prevent a bad economic story being reported before the election...he's not trying to prevent the actual job loss, just the coverage of the job loss from being reported.

 

That is one I was going to post also. I wonder how Teddy feels knowing BO has offered his money to big businesses to support their violating the law.

 

I'd be surprised if he even responded...maybe he'll put one of his lap dogs on it.

 

So often you RW'ers get your panties in a bunch over trumped up Right-wing spun conspiracy theory-type nonsense and whine that the real news outlets refuse to participate. Perhaps it is because the stories are pretty much factually challenged, source weak, Right-wing propaganda BS in the first place. Ya think?

 

You lose! He actually responded. But the best he could muster was a string of insults - typical leftist answer.

 

Oh, I know. I just posted that to goat him into responding to the thread...I wanted to hear how he would defend these actions and, as always, he didn't disappoint.

 

Blaming the Media Seems to Be in Full Swing


When did it stop is my first question.
Exactly how one defines "media" these days is my second.

OK, I'll start.

The internet is a HUGE source of media. You can find just about any "fact" you want there. That's media IMHO.

 

Funny that you two respond in tandem more frequently than any other posters here and then accuse others of being "lapdogs". It's a typical Right-wing tactic. Like when Republicans are accusing everyone else of stealing votes while they themselves are the biggest offenders by far.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/politi...he-first-sign-of-trouble-for-gop-firm/1254517