Thank you, and I would say the same of you buddy! :bananen_smilies046:
I am amazed how the network media can influence the opinion of the American populous so much in favor for or against one candidate or the other regardless of that particular candidates record over the course their political term/s in office. In essence they are creating the way it is rather than simply reporting the way it is. It is unfathomable to me how so many are unable to think for themselves but rather need their thoughts, feelings and opinions outlined for them by the network media.
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Mainstream media is threatening our country's future
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I think we’re at the most dangerous time in our political history in terms of the balance of power in the role that the media plays in whether or not we maintain a free democracy or not. You know, when I first started in politics – and for a long time before that – everyone on both sides, Democrats and Republicans, despised the press commonly, because they were SOBs to everybody. Which is exactly what they should be. They were unrelenting. Whatever the biases were, they were essentially equal-opportunity people.
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Freedom of the press is heavily under attack.... By those who claim.to be so ravenous over our rights.
If you see a bias in the media then it is one of two things....
1. Your idea of unbiased is biased.
2. The media says the way the audience dictates, so the media does not dictate any "lean", but has it dictated to them by the populous.
If a slant garner a bigger audience, then the slant will be replicated.
I find it amusing, during all this politicizing, how one candidate with the aid of the national media networks can demonize their opponent with video snippets featuring comments which are then taken out of context, but when comments are aired about recent failed domestic or foreign policy that cast themselves in an unfavorable light they have audacity to cry "foul".
I think I follow what you're saying and believe your comment to have some merit. I see media bias in all the news outlets that lends favor to one candidate or the other while ostracizing their opponent . I get dizzy from the spinning political strategists on both sides of the isle. However, it does appear to me that the main national media establishment venomously goes after those apposing one political ideology while giving said ideology a pass as it were. I simply want news reported without opinion.
Another thing about that is that Romney has said some REALLY embarrassing things, and then continually doubles-down on them.
Insulting half the nation and then doubling-down is REALLY really bad for a campaign.
Meanwhile, the economic trend has been upward for about three years now. And there is no logic in using the initial crash numbers against President Obama. He didn't cause it, he stopped it.
Not to mention that the economy is mentioned in about every national news report. Forming a biased opinion that The President is not doing well enough would be just that, a biased report.
I still think that if you are seeing bias in the mainstream media, (all except for the known right-wing Fox) then I have to believe that it is because your impression of the middle is more to the right than the entire free press is to the left.
We will need to agree to disagree on the state of the economy in the last three years. I'm not sure how 8% unemployment translates into an upward trend, unless the old bad is, somehow, the new good. The good news for the President is that the stock market is now showing improvement and it has come at the right time for him. The spin from the President would leave one to believe that they were, somehow, not in complete control of all three branches of the Government his first two years in office. The spin from the Romney camp would have you believe that the Bush administration bares little to no responsibility at all for the downed economy.