I have been bothered by a recent study the claims to document the ‘Liberal’ bias of the press. And it struck me that the problem here is that word, Liberal. The has been another propaganda word. Spun to mean something bad.
Liberal
broad: showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; “a broad political stance”; “generous and broad sympathies”; “tolerant of his opponent’s opinions”
This is clearly a definition of real America Values like Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion In America, to be a good citizen you need to be ‘Liberal’, period! To respect the fact that someone might hold an opinion other than your own. If not for the ‘Liberal’ Press who would represent any opposing view point. The press, were it not Liberal, would be required to represent only one viewpoint. And that wouldn’t be Freedom of the Press
But for most, this is a hard job. But no one said U.S. citizenship was supposed to be easy. To allow someone to shout at the top of their lungs, that which you would oppose at the top of your lungs, takes real effort, real citizenship.
This citizenship seems to be sadly lacking in the Right-Wing blogsphere, and the Republican propaganda machine.
Okay, by this logic, then it is fair to say that progressive is just another way of saying socialist and/or communist.
Just ask Nancy Pelosi, leader of the Progressive Caucas and prominent member of the DSA (democratic socialists of America).
And yes, there is a very left-lean bias in the mainstream press.
One name says it all: Dan Rather.
My favorite Reporter.
Big surprise there. Kinda proves my point: you are the typical Bush-basher.
Where is Dan Rather now?
My favorite Reporter
Don’t you mean former favorite Reporter?
Didn’t he resign after humiliating himself after trying to sway the election by presenting fraudulent documents about George W. Bush’s Guard duty? Didn’t those ‘documents’ turn out to be typed with MS Word, using MS Times New Roman, a font which obviously did not exist on a 1970’s typewriter?
I can understand why he is your favorite reporter. This also tells me what kind of person you are. You are willing to overlook lies in order to oust Bush. You will except anything to get him out of office, even if the allegation is completely fabricated, as was the case with the forged documents that Dan Rather presented before the American people on 60 Minutes and the CBS Evening News, right before the 2004 elections.
Rather is damn lucky he is still free, since he commited fraud, trying to sway the election. Too bad for him, the American people aren’t quite the idiot rednecks that liberals describe us to be.
However you ARE allowed to ACCEPT lie’s to keep Bush in office.
How convenient.
Dan Rather did not create the ‘fake’ documents, they were given to him and CBS.
By Whom? What was the motive for that? Who would have profited?
If they did not create them, then they were only presenting the information that was presented to them.
Where are the WMD’s, the information that was presented as ‘FACT’ by government sources, Bush sources, and did not result in any one’s dismissal. No one was honorable enough to resign from the press for reporting the fraud?
Dan did NOT commit fraud, if he did not know the papers were a fraud. His fault was that he was too enthusiastic, too involved in the subject matter to overcome any skepticism to investigate fully.
The same can be said for today’s ‘investigative reporter’ , no investigation into the facts.
His fault was that he was too enthusiastic, too involved in the subject matter to overcome any skepticism to investigate fully.
Thanks for making my point so precise. He was too wrapped up in outsing Bush, that he did not use enough sense to realize that the documents were fake. However, he still to this day, maintains that the documents are not fake but authentic, even though it has been proven that they are fraudulent.
Dan Rather lost his career because of it. His new career is authoring conspicy theory books. I wonder if Oprah Winfrey will recommend his writings, since she seems to love fraudulent non-fiction; (otherwise known as fiction?).