Posted by
Andrews on Saturday, July 04, 2009 11:02:54 AM
I don't normally watch MSNBC, but judging from their ratings no one does, so I suppose that just makes me an average American. However, I happened to end up on the channel by mistake, and I was taken aback by one of their promos. Among the topic discussed "Republicans launch new attacks on the president's health care plans."
I know many think conservatives are overly sensitive, but could you imagine the press in 2006 saying "Democrats launch new attacks on the president's military plans"? No, it was always worded as "congress raises legitimate concerns about..." or "Congress highlights problems in the..." It seems only Republicans "attack" while Democrats "criticize" and "raise questions".
I am sure Media Matters has documented this and has fudged the numbers to show exactly how this is not the case, but I challenge anyone to sit through a half hour of MSNBC and not find a strong bias. CNN is a bit less open, but still biased. Oddly, the supposedly most biased channel, Fox, shows the least bias, mainly because they are so careful to avoid charges of bias. I grant their hosts are, for the most part, conservative and make conservative statements when they admit their personal views, but their handling of the news is still much more centrist than any MSM source.
As I said before, that we see Fox as "far right" just shows how far to the left the rest of the media is. (Kind of like Iran, the fact that a man like Mousavi is seen as a reformer shows just how corrupt their system is.)