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Joe Buck (jbuck@synopsys.com) wrote:
: I doubt your last sentence -- have you seen how low the ratings for
: network newscasts are these days and compared them to newspaper
: subscription rates?

Newspaper subscription rates also apply to the Washington Post,
New York Times, San Jose Mercury News and other papers that are
liberal as well as to the conservative newspapers. So how many
people watch the 3 liberal network news broadcasts as opposed to
ONLY the conservative newspapers? 

: If ratings count, then surely the fact that more people see Rush Limbaugh
: than network news broadcasts must figure into your equations? Or the fact
: that most of ABC's and CNN's paid political commentators are conservatives
: or moderates?  People that are given license by the broadcast media to
: express their opinions rather than to just report the news are almost all
: conservatives or moderates (radio talk show hosts, TV political
: commentators like George Will, etc).  

Rush Limbaugh is the natural reaction of people to being fed nothing
but liberal views. Notice that Limbaugh show is carried INDEPENDENT
of the networks. His show is syndicated. That is the only way a
conservative can get a prime time show on the air. A few minutes
commentary is nothing compared to what can be done with an entire
TV show. Liberals have 60 Minutes which pretends to be objective
when it actually only presents liberal viewpoints on the show.
That was illustrated in its story of forced school bussing. Mike
Wallace openly rationalized the hypocrisy of the bill's sponsors
who sent their children to private schools to avoid having their
children bussed.

: Baldly asserting that the broadcast media are "very liberal" just because
: Nixon and Reagan have been asserting it all your life is even more
: misleading.  I won't accuse you of lying since I'm sure you believe what
: you're saying.

People who study the media have published papers on the political
bias of the news reporters. This is NOT just Nixon and Reagan
saying the news media is liberal. It is the news media themselves
saying they are more liberal. In survey after survey conducted by
the media themselves and by people studying the media, the reporters
who write the stories all admit that they are very liberal as a group.
The only people who say the news media is not liberal are non-news
media liberals. The news reporters are at least honest enough to
admit their bias. A simple search in the library magazine references
will find plenty of articles in publications such as the Wilson Quarterly
on the liberal bias of the media. The news media often run stories
on these studies of their own bias. 

			   Danny Low
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