In His arms.

When it comes to those of you who do not believe that the media is bised maybe you should do some more research. All they focus on is the death toll and the bombings. I think the death toll now is up to around 2300. Not sure but somewhere around there right. Did you know that in the state of IL there were roughly 16000 murders last year alone. Lets see in an entire war torn country over several years of war around 2300 dead service men and women. In peaceful state inside the us where we have laws and police that are highly trained around 16000 dead civilians. HHMMMM the media doesn't talk about that do they? Or what about the stories invovling the number of schools we have built or hospitals, or doctors we have trained, powerplants we have built, water treatment plants. The media never tells anything about the good things we are doing but focuses only on the negative. Last year I came across a story of an Engeneer battalion that was rebuilding a powerplant outside of a small village in Iraq. The school in the village had a collapsed roof. The engineers decieded to tack on a meager 40000 dollars to build a new school. The first building with Airconditioning in the village and the first computers they villagers had ever seen. During the time it took to build the school the villagers talked to our troops and got to know them. Soon the village elders had formed an armed volunteer militia out of the villagers that patroled the perimiter of the powerplant and village protecting our troop because of the deep respect and love they had developed for each other. Why do we not see such stories on the news. Because the Media is liberally biased and does not care how many deaths they cause with thier misinformation. And for the record I was an Infantryman with the US Army and I take this kind of thing very personally.

Research done.

Claims of widespread liberal media bias are bogus; nothing more than "playing to the refs", an intentional effort to repeat a trope over and over again until people believe it.

This stuff is so played. It exhausts me.

Examples of instances of media bias, slanted toward one ideology or another, are easy to find.

For instance, the other day a reporter on NPR referred to the Bush Admin's proposal to cut the Medicare budget like this:

"The Bush admnistration has proposed changes to Medicare that will result in a savings of $36 billion over the next five years."

What sort of liberal bias motivated them to choose that phrasing?

Might they have said, "The Bush Administration has proposed to cut the budget of Medicare by $35 billion over the next five years."

Of course they could have! Do you see the different impressions the two statements might leave? Where on earth was their liberal bias?

How does one explain the climate that surrounded the 2000 election? A steady stream of false claims about Al Gore's character ran through the media echo chambers from the very start of the presidential campaign. It's widely known that reporters loved to repeat RNC talking points about Al Gore. They have admitted that it was "fun" to trash Gore during the campaign. "He doesn't know who he is." "He said he 'invented the Internet.'" "He's a phony."

And even now, watch what happens whenever Al Gore appears somewhere and makes a speech. They pile on, racing to see who can trash him first. People like David Broder and Mara Liasson and George Stephanopolis PILE ON and talk about how he's "lost it".

Where on earth is the liberal media?

Nowhere, because this claim is pure nonsense.

Most in the mainstream media are biased, no doubt. They're biased toward their own self-interest, towards maintaining their status in the D.C. social scene. Tim Russert goes to a Christmas party at Donald Rumsfeld's house every year. Andrea Mitchell is married to Alan Greenspan.

Know how to get rid of stories about how bad it is in Iraq? How about turn the power on for more that what, 35% of the time! That might be a start, almost three years after the invasion.

GC

>They're biased toward their own self-interest

YES!

A news station here broadcasts an ongoing "Watchdog" segment regarding child preditors, then THE VERY NEXT SEGMENT shows pictures of local children who are having a birthday telling names, SCHOOLS, and intrests. When this unsafe parading of CHILDREN is pointed out to them, they respond by doing nothing b/c it serves their best interest to do nothing.

Status quo stinks.