This page explores the liberal and conservative
dichotomy represented within media construction of reality. Our purpose
is to examine the conflicting ends of the political spectrum to spotlight
various manifestations within our media which represent a related bias.
The
Tyranny of the Left-Wing Liberal Media
Today's news media shows blatant liberal bias. This bias stems from news
reporters and journalists themselves, 89% of whom voted for Bill Clinton
in 1992. Many prominent conservatives, including Newt Gingrich, have attempted
to call attention to the bias of the press. "In the age of television,
the bias of information shapes the debate, most of the time, against conservatives."
Prior to his bid for re-election,
the news media overlooked many important issues regarding Bill Clinton's
presidency, including the increase in teenage drug use between 1992 and
1996.
Even in the magazine where
the above quotes were printed, Vice President Al Gore was allowed to have
the last word: his quote denying Speaker Gingrich's accusations closed
the piece.
News reporters have long been willing to slant
their news coverage to support their radical-leftist ideologies. In one
case, NBC news rigged the gas tank of a truck with explosives for and investigative
piece on safety, produced to support Ralph Nader's radical countercultural
opposition to American automobile companies.
Until the liberal media mafia
releases its stronghold on our nation's news coverage, we have little hope
for the future of our country and escape for tyrannical Leftism.
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Liberal bias and
abortion.
The
Conservative Media and their Fascist Agenda
In recent years the number
of corporations owning all forms of media are shrinking in numbers.
This new media big business, above all else, values the bottom line and
profits! profits! profits! Structural changes within
the political sphere have taken a turn towards deregulation since Reagan's
80s. This means less restrictions on ownership and ignoring laws
set to protect the public's interests (Federal Communications Act specifies
that the airwaves belong to the public, but somehow these same airwaves
are up for sale for the sake of open-market [narrow] competition) so as
to turn a larger profit for already enormous media conglomerates.
Lately, these same conglomerates
have been under scrutiny because 89% of journalists polled (only 139 in
total) voted for President Clinton's liberal platform. The media
has been charged with being too "liberal." Research however, has
also shown that during Clinton's first 18 months in office 62% of televised
media broadcasts were negative compared to a more balanced coverage of
Bush's "conservative" years. Leading us back to the possibility of
a different conclusion than the media as liberal in their bias'.
As the number of corporations
which own various media resources get smaller and smaller, media critics
have begun to wonder if diversity of content is suffering. The real
question seems to be, "Is diversity of content, or content period beside
the point?" In a big business, media-centered America, diversity,
or lack of it, is honored only if it attracts large audiences, wealthy
advertisers, and higher profits.
A typical conservative bias
exists within the media as whole regardless of the content of the finished
product. Due to the marketing imperatives involved in content decision
making, sex and violence are a staple of many a media package. Every
broadcast, write-up, or book must be entertaining and titillating to attract
large audiences and wealthy advertisers. Actual content of the media
package may not offer traditional ideologies, but the marketing imperative
behind the mediated world view fills a greater role in deciding just what
the content will be. The so-called liberal media hides behind its
own facade a truly conservative ethic of profit - content to big business
is otherwise irrelevant.
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Ben
Bagdikian on the Media Monopoly
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