Conservative bias at the Newseum?
Jonathan Schwarz at MoJo Blog looks at a new educational video at the Newseum in Washington, DC. The video — part of an exhibit funded by $10 million from Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. — alleges liberal bias in the media by interviewing Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid, NBC News anchor Brian Williams, journalist Clarence Page, Fox anchor Brit Hume, and Fox contributor Juan Williams. Schwarz writes:
At seven minutes long, the video is like cable news in general: unbelievably superficial. It shows snippets from Bill Clinton’s angry response to questions on 9/11 from Fox’s Chris Wallace in 2006, and George H.W. Bush’s angry response to questions on the Iran-Contra scandal from CBS’ Dan Rather in 1988. Then it describes a 2006 Gallup poll in which 44% of Americans called the media “too liberal,” while 19% found it “too conservative.” Hume tells us that those who think journalists are liberals are “by and large correct,” while Brian Williams explains that until recently “conservative America” had nowhere to go for its news.
So the message, while shallow, is clear: the media is liberal, and any critique that it may have a corporate or conservative bias is so ridiculous it doesn’t even need to be voiced.
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“conservative America” had nowhere to go for its news.
Damn liberal reality infringing on the stupid people’s need to have their “news” spoon-fed by corporate influenced propagandists.
April 15th, 2008 at 12:56 pmWell, there’s something to be said for reporters being liberal, much as it can be said that most college professors are liberal. However, since it is management that actually dictates the course of the media and educational institutions, and they are by far more conservative than the reporters and professors, the content that is approved for publication/teaching is conservative.
April 15th, 2008 at 1:03 pmWhatever did conservatives do back in the days of Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, John Chancellor, Edward R. Murrow, and all the rest of those “liberals”?
Since facts have a liberal bias, I guess they had to create a news source that was basically fact-free.
April 15th, 2008 at 1:05 pmraynman Says
April 15th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Well, there’s something to be said for reporters being liberal, much as it can be said that most college professors are liberal.
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You may be onto something there. Maybe it’s just the dissemination of actual information that’s “liberal”. The closed-minded person merely wants to hear whatever he already believes to be true.
April 15th, 2008 at 1:08 pmWho cares about the 29%-ers? They serve no purpose in society.
April 15th, 2008 at 1:08 pmGlad to see Hume finally admits to being a biased far, FAR reich-winger.
April 15th, 2008 at 1:10 pmraynman Says
April 15th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Well, there’s something to be said for reporters being liberal, much as it can be said that most college professors are liberal.
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You may be onto something there. Maybe it’s just the dissemination of actual information that’s “liberal”. The closed-minded person merely wants to hear whatever he already believes to be true.
As that great philospher Colbert has noted, “Facts have a noted liberal bias”.
April 15th, 2008 at 1:10 pmConservative bias at the newseum?
Duh? Ya think?!
April 15th, 2008 at 1:11 pmDr Hussein Matt
Are you getting snarky? you know what TROS had to say about getting snarky today. TP is a respectible site, no snarking allowed.
yea, right.
April 15th, 2008 at 1:13 pmRight wingers are frightened of facts and their well known liberal bias.
April 15th, 2008 at 1:16 pmI recall when you actually learned something from nightly news.
Clearly
Not
News
&
Fox Noise
have put themselves in a position to BE THE NEWS.
That’s a big difference in today’s ‘reporting’. When someone broadcasting on PUBLIC airwaves decides to filter, alter or change information, they’re making news, not reporting it.
This is why Hate Radio is so scared of The Fairness Doctrine.
Telling the truth isn’t going to make your market share rise, so why not ‘make’ the news.
CNN & Fox should both have their licenses pulled for 90 days.
April 15th, 2008 at 1:27 pmThen, if they still can’t report facts, give those frequencies to nonprofit organizations that can use the ’space’ to help those less fortunate.
Whatever did conservatives do back in the days of Walter Cronkite, etc.?
They went to their John Birch Society and KKK meetings and traded stories they made up, since few of them could actually read. They were a marginalized fringe group until the GOP managed to “mainstream” what we now call “conservatism.”
April 15th, 2008 at 1:32 pmBig $$$$$ can buy the Reich Wing any spin they want.Big $$$$ bought Faux News and it`s hate mongering journalist who are scaring america into voting for old man Johnny McWars because they are scared of a black american man and a white women running this country with BIG GOV`T and getting us out of this WAR.
April 15th, 2008 at 1:34 pmmisshusseinmolly Says:
You may be onto something there. Maybe it’s just the dissemination of actual information that’s “liberal”. The closed-minded person merely wants to hear whatever he already believes to be true.
April 15th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
I agree, plus how their parents feel about issues and how a person is raised and the environment they lived in has alot to do with it also.
April 15th, 2008 at 1:37 pm.
Reality is too Liberal for ABCNNBCBS&FOXPRAVDA Propagandists.
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April 15th, 2008 at 1:42 pmThe Truth has a liberal bias or why “Conservative News” is an oxymoron.
Orwell would be proud of Murdoch’s use of corporate “think-speak“.
April 15th, 2008 at 1:44 pmNext to these pathological, goose-stepping poltroons, pretty much anything has a “liberal bias”.
April 15th, 2008 at 1:47 pmAccuracy in Media???? They even see a “liberal bias” within the Republican Party!!!
http://www.rawstory.com/ news/ 2006/ Conservative_group_alleges_gay_GOP_are_1013.html
April 15th, 2008 at 1:49 pmZimzone Says:
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I recall when you actually learned something from nightly news.
That is so true. I stopped watching the news along time ago. Fox, I do not consider a news source at all. It’s a tragedy that we have to put up with the likes of Brit Hume, Glenn Beck, Tim Russert and the rest of the gang.
The only ones I will watch is Keith Olbermann and Jon Stewart. Jon Stewart because of his sense of humor.
What would we do without the internet. It is such a great source of facts and knowledge. We don’t have to rely on the nightly news anymore.
April 15th, 2008 at 1:50 pmOnly the most idiotic of idiots believe that news should be divided into liberal and conservative views…we only need the truth and many questions as to the source. Please, just the facts and cynicism.
April 15th, 2008 at 1:55 pmAnd what’s with the “Newseum” word? Does it have a “Crapateria” where they sell overcooked hotdogs and frozen pizza? Seriously, how much credibility do they think making up a name gives them? Are going to claim it’s the bestest newseum in the world? Do they have a wax figure hall? Will we be able to tell the difference between the wax figure of brit hume and the real one?
April 15th, 2008 at 1:59 pmBobwurst Says:
Will we be able to tell the difference between the wax figure of brit hume and the real one?
April 15th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Yeah
The wax one will be capable of facial expressions ……….
April 15th, 2008 at 2:04 pmIf the media had a liberal bias, it wouldn’t creep me out so much.
April 15th, 2008 at 2:18 pmLoonie Says:
Next to these pathological, goose-stepping poltroons, pretty much anything has a “liberal bias”.
April 15th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
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“pathological, goose-stepping poltroons…”
Ye gods, yer a poet, man. Beautiful phrase.
I suggest ya trademark it before some unscrupulous individual, like me fer instance, steals it.
April 15th, 2008 at 2:20 pmIt’s a Liberal Country fellas - always has been. Liberal Constitution, Liberal Laws, Liberal people. Don’t like it? Go somewhere else.
April 15th, 2008 at 2:26 pmSo? You expected, maybe, chopped liver?
April 15th, 2008 at 2:48 pmIt’s just another example of playing to (with) themselves. They can’t believe their own bias, so they fall back on the canard of the ‘liberal media.’ It hasn’t been liberal since Reagan.
April 15th, 2008 at 2:59 pmApril 15th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Dana Milbank has an interesting take on a recent meeting between the media elites, John McCain, and Barack Obama. You tell me where the bias clearly lies…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-dyn/ content/ article/ 2008/ 04/ 14/ AR2008041402633_pf.html
Milbank: John McCain and Barack Obama both appeared before the nation’s newspaper editors yesterday. The putative Republican presidential nominee was given a box of doughnuts and a standing ovation. The likely Democratic nominee was likened to a terrorist.
April 15th, 2008 at 4:06 pm