WTF? O'reily talks about the "Left Wing Media" on every show??

[kuozzman]

WTF? I like to watch this dumbass and others occasionally just to know what they're saying about current issues and this is the 3rd time I've watched Bill O'Reily this week and every time he's had a BIG rant about how liberal the media is. Tonight it's more about Hollywood, but he also specifically mentioned the WSJ and NYT as being left-wing! What planet does he live on??

NYT: Jobs Picture Shows Some Signs Of Life
Article says: Employment climbed at a steady if not spectacular
pace in December, suggesting the economy is on a solid footing
but that employers in many industries are still cautious about
hiring.
NYT: C.I.A. Report Finds Its Officials Failed in Pre-9/11 Efforts
Nice headline!! Article saya officials at the highest levels of
the agency should be held accountable for their failures.
Among those most sharply criticized in the
report, George J. Tenet-Freedom Medal??????
NYT: Benefits Plan Costs President Key Democrat
Nice headline!! It "cost the "Prez" a Democrat b/c the
"benefits" GET CUT!
NYT: Gonzales Speaks Against Torture During Hearing
Nice headline!! He also authorized it before we started
invading countries!

[Khephra]

1. I can see why some people would think that the NYT is left-wing

But the WSJ? I'm not sure that Joseph McCarthy was as RW as the WSJ.

[bloom]

5. I think the NYTimes represents people on both sides

so what happens is both sides can point to the right or left type of position and complain if they so choose.

I would like to see what the WSJ offers that is so liberal.



I discuss this a little in this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1475839

Democracy Now is the only consistently liberal news show I know of on TV.

[Celeborn Skywalker]

6. Yeah, no kidding

NYT, rightly or wrongly, is considered by most of the public to be left-leaning. WSJ, on the other hand, is a known right wing rag. Dill DO'Reilly needs to STFU!!

[kuozzman]

9. That's ridiculous, just look at the headlines I listed, I could easily get

more......

[Celeborn Skywalker]

15. I'm not saying I agree that it's left leaning,

but that is the public's perception.

[kuozzman]

23. Oh, gotcha, sorry.....

[kuozzman]

8. Not the entire NYT, the editorial page I can see though.

[Goldeneye]

2. Since the republicans have control over all branches of gov't

They should have no trouble getting the fairness doctrine passed...and extinguishing the "liberal media bias"

[slor]

3. What about the "loofah-wing" media?

Does he mention them anymore?

[SharonAnn]

7. ROTFL! O'Reilly is from the "loofah wing" of journalism or is it

the "felafel wing"?

[leesa]

4. Why are you watching Faux??

[Downtown Hound]

10. He doesn't really believe it

People like him just need a scapegoat, an enemy to rally the brain dead masses out there that don't think for themselves. As someone who has worked in the media, I can say there are very few media professionals that really think the media is liberal. Assholes like O'Reilly just need something to get the sheep worked up.

[Maccagirl]

11. Well, Christmas is over and he has to spew more

lies about the "left" until next December when he can ride in on his hobby-horse and save "Christians" from the evilDUers.

:evilgrin:

[pauliedangerously]

12. "What planet does he live on??"

He lives on Earth, and he understands that if you keep repeating the same bullshit over and over again, while making faces that one would make while sniffing a fresh turd, the weak-minded, the bewildered, and the bedraggled will fall in step behind you and repeat what you say.

[ladjf]

13. One of their oldest fairy tales.

[AlCzervik]

14. "Smear merchants" in other words anyone that calls him out

for being the hack that he is. You need to step away from the faux, you lose iq points everytime you watch.

[jaime_176]

19. maybe EQ points, too!!?? n/t

[Taxloss]

16. Liberal journalists, yes. Liberal journalism, no.

I wrote a blog post about this:

http://taxloss.blogspot.com/2005/01/liberal-journalists-yes.html

[Kurovski]

17. One of the benefits pukes find in promoting the concept

of a liberal media, is that you're hearing everything there is to hear about what the Right Wing is up to, and almost nothing about what the Democrats are "cooking up".

You can only trust turd-polishers like O'reilly. Only HE is looking out for you!

It's so very fucking sick.

[MergeLeft]

18. Has he provided us call letters or a station number?

I've been searching for it for years.

[Bluebear]

20. How much is the WH paying Hannity to "comment" on the media?

[Catherine Vincent]

21. I'm telling you it's all a propaganda plan by the right wingers

to scream and yell "liberal media" to make the people believe the majority of the media is liberal which we all know it is not.

It worked.

[David Zephyr]

22. "The Liberal Media" is Fox's Marketing Mantra to Keep Their Viewers Put

If Fox was the lasts news outlet in Amerika --- which is not so unimaginable --- they would still be hammering the liberal media. It's how they keep their audience, ratings and hence, advertising income.

Rush Limbaugh does the same thing inculcating his listening audience agains the "elites" and "liberal press" and by suggesting to them that he has the sole "truth" for them.