Bias in the media

[Celticguy]

Bernie Goldberg has taken his former fellows in media to task for their bias and has chronicled it in a number of books. Its nothing new, of course, though it has become more blatant of late.

Food for thought
https://www.americanexperiment.org/a...no-surprise-2/

If you have not read his stuff you should consider it. It far more than just the words they say. Thats actually not ghe worst of it.

Folks here like to moan about bias, might as well get real about it.

[midcan5]

"Goldberg maintains that most journalists share an ideological worldview. Generally, they support abortion rights, affirmative action, gun control, gay rights and environmental regulation, and oppose school prayer and the death penalty. Moreover, they tend to surround themselves with friends and colleagues who think the same way."

Generally lots of people support several of those items, does that make them biased. Only in Goldberg's view which I would call ideology as he lacks nuance. And some oppose school prayer because religion is a personal thing that has no place in a public school. As for opposing the death penalty that too is part of many religions. But Goldberg isn't interested in complex topics, he is a spokesperson for a well paid corporate ideology. Does he know that as he seems to see into the values of others, seeing yourself is often harder.

Today Americans should consider the source of information especially given our last presidential election. "The Center of the American Experiment (CAE) is a right-wing pressure group ..." You can read about them in the link below as given the weather today, you may be inside avoiding the rain. Hint hint.

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.ph...can_Experiment

Thomas Frank says it well. "The trick never ages; the illusion never wears off. Vote to stop abortion; receive a rollback in capital gains taxes. Vote to make our country strong again; receive deindustrialization. Vote to screw those politically correct college professors; receive electricity deregulation. Vote to get government off our backs; receive conglomeration and monopoly everywhere from media to meatpacking. Vote to stand tall against terrorists; receive Social Security privatization. Vote to strike a blow against elitism; receive a social order in which wealth is more concentrated than ever before in our lifetimes, in which workers have been stripped of power and CEOs are rewarded in a manner beyond imagining." From: 'What's the Matter With Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America'

And for those who want to understand the corporate right wing talking machine see Geoffrey Nunberg's book below and video too.

http://fora.tv/2008/11/16/Geoffrey_N..._Talking_Right

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/....Talking_Right

"If money is speech, as the Supreme Court says, then more money must be more persuasive speech, and those ideas with the most money behind them will tend to prevail. This is un-American." Barbara Boxer https://www.utne.com/politics/who-br...y-ze0z1801zhee


If you seriously want to understand how corporate money has corrupted American values check out the two books below.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...nvisible-hands

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833494-dark-money


Essays here too: https://sarahkendzior.com/


I am amazed at how many excellent women writers and journalists there are today. They seem unafraid of the corporate machine which pays for your brain.