In a recent thread, it was claimed in an aside that the US mainstream news media, including PBS, was "leftist".
I quite enjoy alot of PBS specials and always have, but they are transparently to the left. But you know what, they are a Public Broadcasting network and they reserve the right to believe as they want. Who does NOT have the right to be biased in any way, shape or form are the major media outlets. Their job is to report news, not create their own version of events or distort the facts or suppress information that might run counter to their penchant for going to the left. If the media leaned any further towards pro-liberal views your tv would fall on its left side.
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There was a vain attempt made, by several posters, to point out to the claimant that the news outlets mentioned were generally centrist, not leftist, and that their own far-right position made them think that everything left of their own view was "leftist".
I want a centrist media. I don't need to hear conservative or liberal flavors, I just need the facts!
I myself asked the claimant the obvious question, "CBS, ABC, NBC, and PBS are all Communist news media?"
Some are worse than others. I'll put them in order of blatant bias.
Slanted to the Left:
1. CBS
2. ABC
3. PBS
4. NBC
Slanted to the Right:
1. FOX
Centroid:
1. MSNBC
As far as newspapers go, I only read one.
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because, to me, "leftist" means "Communist".
That's one version of the leftist. Those are the ultra-leftwing wingnuts. Socialists are a tamer version.
[qs]I am hoping that someone (hopefully the claimant) can show how the US mainstream mnews media is truly leftist and not centrist.[qs]
Watch what they choose to cover and what they don't. The Chinese government is harvesting peoples organs, but no, they feel compelled to lower morale by informing us when US soldiers die or when an Iraqi civilian got caught in the crossfire. I think harvesting organs is pretty big news, don't you? And yet, not a word of it.
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