Will the Liberal Media Take One Step Forward?
Not so fast there, Sunday Morning Talk Shows.
What? I thought that the media was biased in favor of the liberals? Well, not the Sunday morning political talk shows (Meet the Press, Face the Nation, etc.), at least not according to a group called Media Matters.
Now, wait a minute, Mr Mac. I remember that you told us about Media Matters -- I think it was in the "mediawatch" section of "Choosing Your AMS", and you said that they didn't like Rush Limbaugh or Bill O'Reilly. Doesn't that make them liberals?
Well, it makes them people with good sense, but you may be right. Overall, Media Matters seems to be more in tune with liberals that with conservatives.
Then what good is this study?
I don't know. I haven't read it myself yet, I only read the reports about the report. But they say that since 1997 there have been signifcantly more conservative voices than progressive voices on the air on Sunday Morning. But read the stidy, and decide for yourself how good their methodology is. They've tried to back their impressions up with statistics.
NBC was not happy with the conclusions of the report. Why only go back as far as 1997, they wonder. If you go back to the first Clinton term, they say, things will even out. There are more Republicans on the air now, NBC says, because Republicans are running things in Washington. Media Matters printed NBC's response, and then their own response to the response.
Over at CBS News' blog "Public Eye" (that'd be a good one to bookmark and check back in on from time to time), Vaughn Ververs notes that sometimes it's hard to tell exactly where people stand. One example he uses is David Brooks (we had him in class the other day -- the OP-ED piece about the popularity of hard-driving Coach movies). You call Brooks a conservative, Ververs says, yet he was in favor of gay marriage -- not a conservative viewpoint. So what is he? (He's a conservative. Sometimes I'll espouse a viewpoint that sounds strangely conservative, but overall there's no doubt where I stand). But Ververs is right. You do the best you can, but sometimes it's hard to boil down people and opinions to numbers.
What? I thought that the media was biased in favor of the liberals? Well, not the Sunday morning political talk shows (Meet the Press, Face the Nation, etc.), at least not according to a group called Media Matters.
Now, wait a minute, Mr Mac. I remember that you told us about Media Matters -- I think it was in the "mediawatch" section of "Choosing Your AMS", and you said that they didn't like Rush Limbaugh or Bill O'Reilly. Doesn't that make them liberals?
Well, it makes them people with good sense, but you may be right. Overall, Media Matters seems to be more in tune with liberals that with conservatives.
Then what good is this study?
I don't know. I haven't read it myself yet, I only read the reports about the report. But they say that since 1997 there have been signifcantly more conservative voices than progressive voices on the air on Sunday Morning. But read the stidy, and decide for yourself how good their methodology is. They've tried to back their impressions up with statistics.
NBC was not happy with the conclusions of the report. Why only go back as far as 1997, they wonder. If you go back to the first Clinton term, they say, things will even out. There are more Republicans on the air now, NBC says, because Republicans are running things in Washington. Media Matters printed NBC's response, and then their own response to the response.
Over at CBS News' blog "Public Eye" (that'd be a good one to bookmark and check back in on from time to time), Vaughn Ververs notes that sometimes it's hard to tell exactly where people stand. One example he uses is David Brooks (we had him in class the other day -- the OP-ED piece about the popularity of hard-driving Coach movies). You call Brooks a conservative, Ververs says, yet he was in favor of gay marriage -- not a conservative viewpoint. So what is he? (He's a conservative. Sometimes I'll espouse a viewpoint that sounds strangely conservative, but overall there's no doubt where I stand). But Ververs is right. You do the best you can, but sometimes it's hard to boil down people and opinions to numbers.
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