On America's 'Liberal Media'

The people behind Fox News defend its scathing bias because they believe that the rest of the media is liberal. They're simply offering the 'other side.'

"When you first get in they tell you we’re a bit of a counterpart to the screaming left wing lib media. So automatically you have to buy into the idea that the other media is howling left-wing. Don’t even start arguing that or you won’t even last your first day."

America's media is not liberal. It is corporate, and it therefore leans right. We might never have invaded Iraq if we had a liberal media to question George Bush. If we had a liberal media, all the outright lies Republicans spread about the health care bill might actually be called out, instead of being treated like legitimate arguments. A liberal media may have covered the protests in Wisconsin with the same fervor it directed towards the tea party protests. If we had a liberal media, George Bush wouldn't have been elected twice.

Just look at how Obama is being treated in the media right now. If the media was so "liberal" then why is everything a Democratic president does questioned unconditionally? Of course, that's how it should be with every president, but things should still remain fair. I've seen coverage criticizing his recent trip to South America, simply because he shouldn't be outside of Washington when we're bombing another country. Here's what the president looked like for much of the time he was in South America.



"where da wite wemen at?" -brack obabamm

In all this anger and criticism, I never once saw someone ask why the president was there to begin with. Did anyone else? I'm seriously asking this, I want to know. I want to believe that the American media can do a little more than shout angry words and wade around proudly in its own incompetence. The president was there to secure economic deals. The South American economy is emerging as a potential powerhouse, and Obama saw an opportunity to secure exports and create American jobs. He explained it in his weekly address in less than four minutes. This isn't hard.

The coverage of Libya is equally embarrassing. Nobody seems to be looking at this situation on its own. It always has to go back to Iraq. It's like these incompetent fucks feel bad for ignoring the lead up to Iraq, so they have to overcompensate and bitch when there's nothing there. There are considerable reasons to oppose this air campaign, but it has a hundred times more legitimacy than Iraq ever had, and the ignorance embedded in the backlash is shameful. I really do think these people don't have the slightest fucking clue what they're talking about. It's just "LET'S OPPOSE BOMBS BECAUSE WAR BAD." (I support the decision to go in if you can't tell by now, here are my reasons, I won't get into them here.) John Boehner's letter to the president in response to this was hilarious. I can't believe these words were actually put into a sentence by the leader of the Republican Party.

It is my hope that you will provide the American people and Congress a clear and robust assessment of the scope, objective, and purpose of our mission in Libya and how it will be achieved.

Cool, how about you look at the two wars where this criticism is actually valid, you spineless fuck?

The media is not liberal. It's a mixture of pro-conflict and anti-Obama. The evidence against the existence of a 'liberal media' is so damning, that it's a wonder why the phrase even exists at all. If anything, American media is directed by Fox News. Fox is the most watched news channel in the country by an extremely wide margin. This whole concept of a 'liberal establishment' goes back to Richard Nixon. He's the one who first started blaming 'the media' for all of his own shit. Living up to the reputation of the modern Republican party, Nixon was quite the paranoid fuck. He thought everyone was out to get him. After Nixon lost the California election, he went and blamed the media ("You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore.") When Nixon resigned from the presidency in shame, he felt he was chased off by "the establishment" in Washington, and the liberal elements in, you guessed it, the media. It was never his own fault. "They" were always out to get him. That stuck. When a messenger reports all the shit you've been doing, just shoot the messenger.