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again, the all or nothing at all liberal attitude.
as with any info search, you get input from different sources and compare, even from extreme biased sources.
of course when info is suporessed, as a good propaganda machine is wont to do, that is informative and goes into consideration
Actually you are wrong about my political leaning. I am actually a moderate. It is funny when someone has to ask conservatives something about their political leaning, I am considered a "liberal." Right there is conservative thinking. I used to be a conservative and watched fox news until I realized how inconsistent they are thanks to the internet. It's just I've noticed throughout the political forum, it is always the same question and yet, those don't get locked or taken down. It is the common theme that "why do liberals think this" or "why are liberals ruining our country?" Shouldn't the question be "why is there the establishment" or "why are the establishment ruining our country?" You have to remember that you can get the establishment on BOTH sides. It isnt just a one or either or. Like on the conservative side, you get the Koch Brothers and on the liberal side, you get Tom Steyer. On the forums, there is so much bashing on the liberal side without acknowledgement or facts backed up that it is only a liberal problem.
I am just curious for conservatives out there. Where do you get your media from? Are you skeptic of the sources you get your news from? Will you still follow news from that source, even if they had ties to big money in politics? If you find out something about your news source that showed corruption, will you still follow it?
I notice that no one really likes to cite a source for their claims.
I don't know how long this post is going to last. Last time I posted something on the Politics forum, it got taken down, just because "it was asked already," even though it wasn't EVER asked. Of course, I wouldn't be surprised because city-data clearly shows its bias.
NOTE:
Before it gets locked or taken down, YES, I did my search and the titles in the search may seem to be related, but compared to other threads that talk about the media bias of the presidential primaries or the claim that the media has a democratic bias in general, NONE of them talk about republicans and their media in general. If any of them existed, they are going to be out of date.
You dare question that man behind the curtain?
Before this thread does get locked down, I will say again the best source of unbiased reporting and/or news that anyone can get in one hour -- commercial free -- is the PBS NewsHour. Some conservatives have trouble with this notion, because it's public television, but I have always been impressed with who they have on the show, generally experts from both sides of the issue, who are given an opportunity to "present their case" in a professional and straight-forward manner.
Coincidentally, the title of this thread is what caught my attention and reminded me of this story presented during the PBS NewsHour show last night.
Actually you are wrong about my political leaning. I am actually a moderate. It is funny when someone has to ask conservatives something about their political leaning, I am considered a "liberal." Right there is conservative thinking. I used to be a conservative and watched fox news until I realized how inconsistent they are thanks to the internet. It's just I've noticed throughout the political forum, it is always the same question and yet, those don't get locked or taken down. It is the common theme that "why do liberals think this" or "why are liberals ruining our country?" Shouldn't the question be "why is there the establishment" or "why are the establishment ruining our country?" You have to remember that you can get the establishment on BOTH sides. It isnt just a one or either or. Like on the conservative side, you get the Koch Brothers and on the liberal side, you get Tom Steyer. On the forums, there is so much bashing on the liberal side without acknowledgement or facts backed up that it is only a liberal problem.
And your comment here immediately reminded me of this thread I just coincidentally started as well...
I actually still read newspapers. Mostly the Washington Post. The news seems unbiased enough. And the op-ed page ranges from conservatives George Will and Charles Krauthammer to liberals E. J. Dionne and Eugene Robinson. I don't feel like I'm being brainwashed.
"Mostly the Washington Post. The news seems unbiased enough." Wrong!
The ya have and will probaly aleays be left biased.
Just because the print op-eds from conservatives does NOT mean they lean right.
Read the editorials and regular articles and you will see the left slant.
"Mostly the Washington Post. The news seems unbiased enough." Wrong!
The ya have and will probaly aleays be left biased.
Just because the print op-eds from conservatives does NOT mean they lean right.
Read the editorials and regular articles and you will see the left slant.
Some Post editorials (and I'm talking about the editorial page, not the op-ed page) take a liberal point of view: same sex marriage, gun control, etc. Some editorials take a more conservative, or at least free market, point of view, such as supporting the TPP deal. But yes, overall the post is a liberal newspaper. As for the hard news, possibly there is a liberal slant to it, but I always feel that I get the basic facts of a story. I don't have any problem with the basic news reporting. And since I've been to the right of center politically for several decades now it's unlikely that reading the Washington Post is going to turn me into a lefty.
"I will say again the best source of unbiased reporting and/or news that anyone can get in one hour -- commercial free -- is the PBS NewsHour."
For the most part, I don't read editorials, opinion pieces, or listen to "talking heads," no matter from the left or right. I do what I can to keep up with the news from multiple sources; local, national and foreign, and I try to pay attention to what the political leaders and/or experts in their fields have to say. All a part of a process I call "triangulating for the truth." Then I judge right from wrong as best I can, how to vote, what to comment in these all-important C-D threads...
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