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Originally Posted by Fishphanatic
So you are telling me that NBC and CNN are not bias? I get a kick out of you saying that all the media is conservative.............
I take it you are voting for Obama?
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I don't know as I will vote this time out, but if I don't it will be the first presidential election that I have sat out in years. Really, I don't care for any of the candidates and the general election is a joke anyway. (Witness the insanity surrounding the 2000 election as a reference.) That isn't the point anyway. To answer your main question yes, I do believe the media has a bias and it is NOT liberal. You have to follow the money and Liberals don't have any real money, or at least they didn't until the rise of the practice of gathering campaign contributions online. Big money is almost always conservative.
There is a lot of money to be made in wars, especially by the media. Ratings on the 24/7 cable news channels skyrockets when a war breaks out. Perhaps you missed the story that broke this weekend about the former officers turned military analysts who went on the cable news channels and chatted up the administration's talking points for months in the beginning of the war. Turns out they were not just former officers, they were also private contractors hired by the Pentagon to make sure the right "spin" was placed on the news coverage.
People's opinions have been manipulated by The Media for years, but most of them are not even aware it is happening and I don't expect that to change. Nobody wants to believe it when you point it out anyway. That is true genius at work.