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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Ideally the press shouldn't be right, left, or center. What you are really saying is 'I agree with the left leaning press, I think I'm the center, therefore they are the center.'
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No. I'm not saying anything like that at all.
I am most certainly a liberal. I make no false claims about being centric. My impression of the media is that it is too conservative - but only because they are far more conservative than I. I don't consider it a bias on their part in any way. The only derision I have for the media is in their incompetence.
In my view, it is this incompetence which you claim is their bias. We could start a list, each of us, of all the bias we see in the media. It would be a never ending list and half of it would be liberal bias and half would be conservative bias. To generalize such a vast industry as the media as being more biased in any direction is absurd.
You claim this fact that 80% of journalists who supported Gore actually has some impact on the sum-total information that is dispensed is very easily and effectively defeated by one simple fact: the firestorm of media reports concerning Clinton's blowjob. No liberal media would have spent more than a day on that story. But a media driven by controversy and suseptible to massive levels of incompetence would make it a story for months, as it happened.
You can, and I'm certain you will, continue to whine and moan about a liberal media. Because that's exactly what conservatives must do if they intend to shift the center as they themselves become more and more conservative in their positions. You can't risk extremism - so you need to drag everyone with you to extremism. But it won't work.