Eric...... your comments surprise me. I'm not angry. I'm here to help. Trust me the only people who think the media is biased against the GOP is the GOP. It doesn't help with Independents and D's. We think you guys are full of it.

Quote:With both the Republican and Democratic conventions now concluded, it’s time to judge the news media on how fairly they covered the two parties. Media Research Center analysts looked at various aspects of coverage, all of which demonstrate that journalists obviously favored the Democratic gathering.

By a 12-to-1 margin, journalists spent far more time deriding the Republican convention for its negativity, even as their reactions to Democratic speakers were consistently positive and often enthusiastic. Cable news had its own unique biases: MSNBC carved out time on each night of the GOP convention for interviews with top Democratic officials, but — despite promises to the contrary — aired no such interviews with Republicans during the Democratic convention. Meanwhile, CNN devoted more than an hour of airtime during the Democratic convention to airing 18 party-produced videos, but only included three such videos during the GOP convention.

Here are details of our research evaluating the convention coverage, with special thanks to MRC analysts Matthew Balan, Mike Ciandella, Nicholas Fondacaro, Curtis Houck and Scott Whitlock.

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich...iased-2016

NEWSBUSTERS!!!!!

That's a part of the problem. Get off of that. Quit being a special snowflake cupcake. The world is not fair. As soon as you learn that valuable lesson you might be able to start competing again.

a special snowflake cupcake?



thats ******* hilarious right there!!!



I know you are wearing your blue colored glasses on, and its hard to see the media bias, but you are still embarrassing yourself.



its really quite amuzing.



keep basking in your made up glory.

What if....

I see the media bias......

but realize that independents don't care and the D's are gald you have the problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Quit bitching about it. No one likes a complainer. NOBODY CARES! EXCEPT FOR FELLOW R's. SO DO YOU CONTINUE HAVING YOUR PITY PARTIES AS LOSERS or.......................................... do you learn to.....

adapt, improvise, and overcome- Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway

You guys have become such complainers. You wouldn't tolerate it in any other form of your lives. It's weakness and it's a contagious disease. Go cry somewhere else cupcake.

NEVER COMPLAIN ABOUT YOUR PROBLEMS.

80% of the people don't care and the other 20% are glad you have the problems- Lou Holtz

OHHHH THE MEAN OLD MEDIA ISN'T BEING NICE TO MY CANDIDATES.........

Boo freakin Hoo snowflake...............

We shall start here.

Listen UTSA....

Do you agree that the only people who give two shyts about media bias are R's?

Yes or No

please tell me who is bitching, so just because we made an observation, thats now considered bitching?



I mean, I guess I would be pissed off too if I was a liberal...

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Y or N

Mach posts troll threads that keep getting moved to the WWE. Should he be banned for 2.74546 months as a result?

(10-11-2016 01:54 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  We shall start here.

Listen UTSA....

Do you agree that the only people who give two shyts about media bias are R's?

Yes or No

No, I do not agree that it is only the "R's".

(10-11-2016 01:12 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  Eric...... your comments surprise me. I'm not angry. I'm here to help. Trust me the only people who think the media is biased against the GOP is the GOP. It doesn't help with Independents and D's. We think you guys are full of it.

You need to be more careful flopping your giant brush around on everyone. I'm not a member of the GOP and I am not voting for Trump. You even reflexively put me in a party and box just to justify your obsessive rantings. Of course there is a media bias in favor of the Dems, there has been my entire life.

You are totally unhinged over the opinions of a few people on some random board.

Its not healthy on any level.

(10-11-2016 02:26 PM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote:  

(10-11-2016 01:12 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  Eric...... your comments surprise me. I'm not angry. I'm here to help. Trust me the only people who think the media is biased against the GOP is the GOP. It doesn't help with Independents and D's. We think you guys are full of it.

I'm not a member of the GOP and I am not voting for Trump.

You even reflexively put me in a party and box just to justify your obsessive rantings. Of course there is a media bias in favor of the left, there has been my entire life.

You are totally unhinged over the opinions of a few people on some random board.

Its not heathy on any level.

Here is the issue...Mach sees everything as Democrat vs. Republican. You can be nothing else, one or the other. Then to make matters worse, the Democratic party is his god and is infallible.

The Deplorables have destroyed Mach.

Wow.... boys....... I'm here to help. Why the hostility?

The only people who complain about the media are the alt-right. I never here it anywhere else. NEVER. I'll find some polls to back me up.

Here you guys go.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2...016-228168

In 2004 people trusted media. What happened? And look at those poor deplorables. Only 14% of the GOP trusts mass media. Pathetic

(10-11-2016 01:21 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  By a 12-to-1 margin, journalists spent far more time deriding the Republican convention for its negativity, even as their reactions to Democratic speakers were consistently positive and often enthusiastic. Cable news had its own unique biases: MSNBC carved out time on each night of the GOP convention for interviews with top Democratic officials, but — despite promises to the contrary — aired no such interviews with Republicans during the Democratic convention. Meanwhile, CNN devoted more than an hour of airtime during the Democratic convention to airing 18 party-produced videos, but only included three such videos during the GOP convention.

You can't tell what "bias" is going on here unless you establish some baseline facts:

• Did Republican convention speakers give objectively more "negative" speeches than Democratic ones?
• How many "top Republican officials" were available and willing to speak with MSNBC (a favorite "liberal bias" target)?
• How many "party produced videos" from each side were available to CNN?
  

These observations might all be true, but they can't show "bias" without the objective facts behind them to allow a legitimate comparison. EDIT: And, now that I think about it, any conclusion about "bias" also has to establish the relevant criteria. Why is it important for the news to feature the same number of officials from each party? Should we care about things like the relative experience and public stature of each official? Do we need to keep track of the exact number of minutes the show devotes to each official? What if a Republican official makes 5 salient points in 2 minutes, but the Democratic official makes 2 salient points in 5 minutes - does it really matter whether the Democratic official got more air time if she didn't use it to say anything of substance? What if, instead of showing more Republican party-produced videos, the news contributors instead spent that time interviewing experts who support Trump's tax plan? There's no sense in picking a random metric to compare when there can be so much diversity in the types of coverage.

Forget all the minutiae. Let's talk about the eyeball test.

Does anyone on here really, truly believe that the media plays it straight down the middle? That there isn't a significant leftward bias? Seriously?

I think there is a great deal of perception bias on this issue. If you lean left, you tend to see media which lean left as centrist and unbiased, and form you frame of reference from there. IMO anybody who does not think that Fox leans hard right is nuts. Likewise, anybody who does not think that the rest of the MSM lean at least fairly hard left is also nuts.

I have issues where I lean right (taxation, balanced budget, military) and issues where I lean left (gay rights, marijuana, death penalty, abortion). I see the vast majority of the MSM biased against me on the issues where I lean right and toward me on issues where I lean left.