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At the Huffington Post, liberal Lee Stranahan wonders why this kind of thing isn't getting more attention from the traditional media who were tut-tutting over much more minor (and even imaginary) offenses to civility so very recently. "Ignoring the story of these threats is deeply, fundamentally wrong. It's bad, biased journalism that will lead to no possible good outcome and progressives should be leading the charge against it.
"Just before writing this article, I did a Google search and it's stunning to find out that the right-wing media really isn't exaggerating -- proven death threats against politicians are being ignored by the supposedly honest media. If you've never agreed with a single thing that Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly et al have said about anything, you can't in any good conscience say that they don't have a point here. Death threats are wrong and if a story like Wisconsin is national news for days, then so are death threats."
He's right, but the big-media folks seem so anxious to peddle the same tired storyline -- right-wingers are violent and ignorant, left-wingers are peaceful and virtuous -- that they almost have to ignore anything that will spoil the narrative.
More and more are understanding the bias of ABC CBS NBC NPR CNN CNBC MSNBC etc.
Sounds like Lee Stranahan is just waking up to the fact that the ALTERNATIVE right-wing media has been right all these past decades. If mainstream media were honest or objective, there would be no need for an alternative. The fact that Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, Dennis Prager, and all the others can make a living (a very good living apparently) is because the mainstream is neither honest nor objective, and has not been since the 1980s.
The major media reports things how it is and how most people get their news. There is just something in the minds of the ultra-right where they need to hear things their way or no way, even when it's wrong or wildly bias. The right wing media constantly spreads propaganda with "union thugs" and they are violent which is completely false, while those on the right, mainly tea party, are the ones prone to violence and spreading hate. It's not media bias, it's truth.
IMO, the majority of American media is liberal, and will not admit it. This includes news, TV, sitcoms, movies, and music. It typically comes from NY'ers and Californians who think they are the center of the universe. MSNBC might as well be a local New York City station.
there is a minority of media that is conservative, but they usually admit being conservative, and are extremely vocal about it. So it is rather easy to paint the right as angry and ignorant, because their "figure heads" on TV are so belligerent and partisan, and they have to contend with the fact that de facto liberals on major networks have more power to "frame the issue" in the minds of american viewers.
so yes, i agree with the op-ed posted by the OP. the mainstream media you see on TV tends to be slightly liberal, and slightly aligned with the interests of Democrats.
The major media reports things how it is and how most people get their news. There is just something in the minds of the ultra-right where they need to hear things their way or no way, even when it's wrong or wildly bias. The right wing media constantly spreads propaganda with "union thugs" and they are violent which is completely false, while those on the right, mainly tea party, are the ones prone to violence and spreading hate. It's not media bias, it's truth.
The major media reports things how it is and how most people get their news. There is just something in the minds of the ultra-right where they need to hear things their way or no way, even when it's wrong or wildly bias. The right wing media constantly spreads propaganda with "union thugs" and they are violent which is completely false, while those on the right, mainly tea party, are the ones prone to violence and spreading hate. It's not media bias, it's truth.
you really think the major main stream media reports things in an honest, none biased way? As for how most people get their news, luckily it isn't only from main stream media. Most intelligent people get their news from several sources, print media, radio, the internet and tV, often reading more than one print publication. As for the right wing and the Tea Party, it might surprise you to know, 1-most right wingers are not involved in the Tea party and 2-the Tea Partys main interest is controlling taxes, spending the what is happening in Washington, it has nothing to do with hate. I certainly can see where you get your news and it isn't based on a cross section, that is for certain.
Prison guards at a Western Maryland correctional facility say a union boss berated and tried to intimidate them after they raised questions at a pre-shift meeting about how their fees are spent and the benefits of belonging to a union.
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The meeting took an unexpected twist, they say, when Mr. Berger opened the floor to questions. When asked about the benefit of belonging to a union, why non-union members must pay a fee to AFSCME and whether the fees go into the same pot that helped the union give millions to Democratic candidates and causes in the 2010 elections, the representative launched into a threatening and profanity-laced tirade.
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Sgt. Kelley and several other guards also said Mr. Berger, a retired guard generally liked by current guards at the facility, grew angrier with each new question, eventually challenging to a fist fight a 6-foot 2-inch tall guard who later posed a query.
I also want to note page two of the article above.
Mr. Shank said the little-known provision will require roughly 12,000 non-union Maryland employees to pay as much as $400 annually, allowing AFSCME to collect millions of dollars.
AFSCME, with 1.6 million members nationwide, is Maryland’s largest public-employee union with an estimated 23,000 members. The group reportedly spent a total of $87 million on the 2010 midterm elections. Gov. Martin O’Malley, a Democrat, was endorsed by the Maryland chapter.
This is called money laundering.
They require non-union members to pay union dues? Whoa. How much are they collecting from union members?
Nice try, here is a tea party thug charging the stage at a pro-workers rights rally punching people and going on a rampage just a few days ago. Arrested and charged with assault.
Sounds like Lee Stranahan is just waking up to the fact that the ALTERNATIVE right-wing media has been right all these past decades. If mainstream media were honest or objective, there would be no need for an alternative. The fact that Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, Dennis Prager, and all the others can make a living (a very good living apparently) is because the mainstream is neither honest nor objective, and has not been since the 1980s.
Alternative?? You cons still trying to pretend that? You do know about Fox's ratings don't you? And Rush Limnaughs millions of listeners? Those people are NOT "alternative" at all. They are the mainstrean.
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