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Permalink Reply by T Shadow on August 10, 2008 at 10:04pm

i totally agree

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Permalink Reply by January.30.2008 on November 13, 2008 at 5:16pm

There are many things about the media I don't like either. I just came across this clip on youtube about Dan Rather talking about how the media only does and says things if they can profit from it.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=o25T0BspJ7c

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Permalink Reply by lowkey on November 13, 2008 at 8:02pm

Chris Matthews statements after Obama's election revealed the true extent of MSNBCs partisanship.

From NewsBusters:

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Yeah, well, you know what? I want to do everything I can to make this thing work, this new presidency work, and I think that -- JOE SCARBOROUGH: Is that your job? You just talked about being a journalist!

MATTHEWS: Yeah, it is my job. My job is to help this country.
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SCARBOROUGH: Your job is the make this presidency work?

MATTHEWS: To make this work successfully. This country needs a successful presidency.

As they say in the article so much for "speaking truth to power", I guess that only applies when you don't like the president.

Well with this start, MSNBC should make Foxnews look great.

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Permalink Reply by keepyourgf on May 25, 2009 at 4:02pm

And you quoted from NewsBusters.org, who's About statement is:
"Welcome to NewsBusters, a project of the Media Research Center (MRC), the leader in documenting, exposing and neutralizing liberal media bias."

or you could quote from MediaMatters.org, who says they are:
"a web-based, not-for-profit, progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media."

So really who fair? No network really. One side tries to appeal for libertarian/conservative leaning people and the other tries for progressive/liberal leaning people.

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Permalink Reply by 47 on May 25, 2009 at 6:47pm

Too bad theres no network that can that could just let us decide for ourselves...

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Permalink Reply by keepyourgf on May 25, 2009 at 9:03pm

Yeah, you have to just wade through all the bull to get to the heart of the issue...

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Permalink Reply by 47 on May 25, 2009 at 10:01pm

Like have u heard this "beef" between Bill O' Reilly and The New York Times? its terrible. Its about The New York Times supposedly not putting something in the paper that they should of and Fox News tried to "investigate" it by seizing records they should have never gotten a hold of.

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Permalink Reply by lowkey on May 26, 2009 at 11:33am

Nice attempt to respond months after the comment but the facts remain the same. Attacking the messenger is nothing more than a lame attempt to make this seem less significant than it is.

If you don't like Newbusters, I'm sure if you look you can find many other sources for this transcript. OR you can even watch the video yourself then make up your own mind. It's even documented on Wikipedia. So pick any source you like and it's still won't leave a good impression of Mr. Matthews.

In the end, Matthews is every bit the partisan hack that everyone claims to dislike in O'Reilly and others. We shouldn't give him a pass simply because he attacked others we found distasteful. We should find his actions every bit as repugnant as they were for others.

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Permalink Reply by keepyourgf on May 26, 2009 at 9:26pm

Sorry lowkey. That's not quite what I meant my comment to mean. I should have started with the bias behind the bias assessment. One can easily see the media bias in Matthews/Olbermann for Democrats or O'Rielly/Hannity for Republicans, but there are all these 'watchdog' groups that tell you what you probably have already surmised. And then theses media centers are quoted on said pundits shows as proof of bias, and then they cry "not fair!" in a between-network squabble.
Or they could just not let you talk at all, there are many examples of this, here is one example I watched 20 mins ago. oy!
the ed show

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Permalink Reply by lowkey on May 26, 2009 at 10:07pm

I probably overreacted too. Sorry about that.

I loved this quote in the interview you posted.

Raul Paul says: "do you want to interview me?"
Ed Shultz says "I've interviewed you, and I've given you all I need to hear."

That little slip shows that the whole presentation was a staged event and not a fair interview. It was an unintentional slip of truth in all the BS. That's what I loved in the Chris Matthews quote. I'm sure it wasn't planned it was just an open admission to the word of how biased the game really is.

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Permalink Reply by 47 on May 23, 2009 at 1:31pm

There are more Muslims than Christians in the world...
but people only look at the 0.000002% that use extremist measures

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Permalink Reply by lowkey on May 27, 2009 at 4:16pm

The problem is the 99.999998% don't object very vocally to the actions of the extremists. Without those objections, it's easiest for many outsiders to assume that all Muslims support those actions.

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