Media bias.
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angledgeNoam Chomsky is a professor at MIT and a progressive political commentator. In his book Interventions, he said:
"...the opinion pages of daily newspapers are yet another corner of the corporate media universe where right-wing voices dominate, and the general debate extends from the far-right to the center, occasional exceptions notwithstanding."
David Kuo was the second-in-command at the White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives. In his book Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction, he said:
"The mainstream media takes a lot of flack, some deserved, for being liberally biased. But that's nothing compared to its antireligious bias. Most reporters continue to think that evangelical Christians are from another planet and most couldn't name one as a friend or acquaintance. A few years ago, a New York Times reporter commented on President George W. Bush's use of the phrase 'people should take the log out of their own eye before taking the speck out of their neighbor's eye.' He said it was an odd version of the pot calling the kettle black. It was a reference to Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, arguably the most famous speech in history."
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Where do you get your news?
"...the opinion pages of daily newspapers are yet another corner of the corporate media universe where right-wing voices dominate, and the general debate extends from the far-right to the center, occasional exceptions notwithstanding."
David Kuo was the second-in-command at the White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives. In his book Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction, he said:
"The mainstream media takes a lot of flack, some deserved, for being liberally biased. But that's nothing compared to its antireligious bias. Most reporters continue to think that evangelical Christians are from another planet and most couldn't name one as a friend or acquaintance. A few years ago, a New York Times reporter commented on President George W. Bush's use of the phrase 'people should take the log out of their own eye before taking the speck out of their neighbor's eye.' He said it was an odd version of the pot calling the kettle black. It was a reference to Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, arguably the most famous speech in history."
[Poll #1141600]
Where do you get your news?
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Date: 2008-02-21 12:22 am (UTC)first things first: i remember reading that part of the David Kuo book and totally not getting the reference. so good call on that.
now, i read the NY Times, Washington Post, and BBC news websites every day, along with Slate, The Root (Slate's blog on black issues). this is supplemented with The Nation, In These Times (basically a midwest version of The Nation), and a bunch of feminist- and race-issues blogs (Feministing, Racialicious, etc.), and CNN and MSNBC on election nights.
so, obviously, the media to which i subject myself is for the most part either liberal-leaning (NY Times, Washington Post, Slate) or left-leaning (The Nation, In These Times, the other blogs), and i think it's important to distinguish between the two. the two groups tend to have a certain amount of overlap - when they cover the same issues, they often have similar viewpoints - but i notice the difference mostly in what they choose to cover. see a's comment above for examples of what the liberal media covers that the lefty media doesn't; a counterexample would be the cover stories from In These Times last week , which involved Indian land trust and a counterterrorism training program for the FDNY.
there's a lot of very conservative media out there that i just don't watch/read/listen to, very consciously. fox news and all its associated outlets tend to make me want to throw things at my television, which is not a good plan since i'm rather fond of my television. ditto for conservative talk radio and the New York Post (my local conservative newspaper.)