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Another look at media bias
Off topic but this is what I really don't get:
In the last two days - total of about an hour and a half of flipping channels,
90210 rerun: whole things about a woman's right to choose
some crappy Whoopie Goldberg sitcom: whole thing is overtly bush bashing and anti-conservative
Simpsons: that whole deal (granted it is a retarted reason to sue)
And liberals think they have any sort of argument when it comes to there not being a bias in the media. So what if conservatives have a few am talk radio shows and a few overt conservatives on foxnews (only place on tv you'll find them).
What annoys me is that theres an outcry over these when they appear; however, there's no ambiguity about what they are. They are political talk shows from people who make no bones about what their political stance is. Sitcoms, drama tv shows, regular frickin tv all over the place pushes liberal agenda's and consistently pokes fun at conservatives. Only people who are already involved in politics are gonna watch/listen to a political show, and probably already have a well formed opinion anyway. There are a shitload of people who don't care about politics and are politically ignorant that i'm sure base whatever political beliefs they have on what they've learned from watching sitcoms (unaware of course where they learned their info)
Same thing with newspapers - baltimore sun, washington post, new york times. I don't think anyone would try to argue that they aren't far left leaning; however - they don't portray themselves as such. And again - when something like the Washington Times is published (which is very straighforward about who and what they are) - liberals won't frickin shut up about it.
What gives?
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