Guess who started the 'liberal media' line

[ck4829]

Rupert Murdoch did.
http://groups.google.com/group/net.politics/browse_frm/thread/399fb48ef64ad0c/55cf0c1c2f1dedfb?lnk=st&q=&rnum=10&hl=en#55cf0c1c2f1dedfb

Notably, you may also just get the feeling that the phrase 'liberal media' was a call sign for conspiracy theorists back in the 80's.
http://groups.google.com/groups/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&num=10&q=%22liberal+media%22&safe=off&qt_s=Search&as_drrb=b&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=18&as_maxm=5&as_maxy=1985

[cally]

1. He's has in hands in all this neocon rise

Remember that the Foxnews effect give the Repubs 2 to 4 percent from a recent study. You could say that Murdoch is the reason the Reps are in power.

[originalpckelly]

2. I look at it this way: if the entire media of the USA is liberal...

and gets much more viewers than FOX, that must mean that there are more informed liberals than conservatives. Not only that, but the people in our country must be really liberal as well because 8 million watch just a single newscast. Get it, if they claim the media is liberal, then the are outnumbered.

:rofl:

[Norquist Nemesis]

3. Huh! I always pegged Reagan for that one

Prior to his running for Pres, his "talk" show gave him voice for his views in an almost underground manner. He consistently attacked and blamed "Liberals" for everything he disagreed with. If he had to be specific, he put the "Liberal" adjective to it: Liberal Agenda, Liberal Media, Liberal Education System...

[ovidsen]

4. Murdoch and Madonna: separated at birth

Good old Rupert probably did coin the phrase 'liberal media'... just to sell his newspapers (he didn't have a TV empire then). He is a master marketer and manipulator who is obsessed with the bottom line. Politics are a means to an end.

His Hillary fund-raising plans, and his release of the Downing Street Memos by his Times of London are just two examples of his pandering for profit.

Murdoch is to journalism what Madonna is to singing. Neither is particularly good as his or her chosen crafy, but boy, can they sell themselves!

[RedStateShame]

5. And to think

I thought that was just started by some GOPer in the South trying to curb saying "Jew-run media."

[ContraBass Black]

6. I knew it.

And his stooges still trumpet it today.

[Arkansas Granny]

7. As I've said before, if the media was truly liberal, we would

never have had George W. Bush for President.

[DaveColorado]

8. I thought Nixon

was talking about the "liberal media" back in the late 60s and early 70s.

[hadrons]

10. I think Nixon used the word "elites"

[leftchick]

9. here is rummy dining with murdoch at the WH

U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (front R) and his wife Joyce (2nd L), and media baron Rupert Murdoch (3rd L) and his wife Wendi Deng (L) arrive for a performance by country singer Kenny Chesney at the White House in Washington May 16, 2006. Chesney performed several songs following an official dinner in honor of Australian Prime Minister John Howard's visit to the U.S. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

[kentuck]

11. I thought it was Richard Viguerie ?

who was head of some conservative group in the 1980's...

[JHB]

12. Murdoch was a Rupie-come-lately

(In)Accuracy In Media and others were using the phrase back in the 70's, and it probably dates back to the Goldwater campaign ('60s) or the Birchers (~50s).

[WiseButAngrySara]

14. Indeed, Goldwater was the earliest to use the term in a derogatory

manner that came to my mind. "Bleeding hearts liberals" has been around forever, but I date it to the mid to late 70's.

[kineneb]

13. Nah. Spiro T. Agnew.

Back in the Nixon days: "Nattering nabobs of negitivity."

[madmusic]

15. Bump

Because this sucks, though no surprise.