“Rather than ripping news outlets for “slanting” the news—as Groseclose and the other bias-hunters do—I prefer to blame news consumers for journalism’s deficiencies: Readers and viewers aren’t as critical about their favorite news outlets as they should be, except to complain that the New York Times isn’t as liberal as it should be or that Fox has failed to terminate the career of Barney Frank. My cure for this kind of credulousness is simple: Have readers and viewers expand the range of news sources they consume, embracing the whole SQ spectrum from liberal to centrist to conservative to “off the wing.”
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…Delaware cops descended on the home of a 17-year-old high school junior to ask her about online communications she had with Weiner.
“They were made aware of an alleged contact between Congressman Anthony Weiner and an area teen,” said New Castle County police spokeswoman Officer Tracey Duffy.
“The teen has been interviewed and disclosed no information regarding any criminal activity…”
The girl’s mother, whose name is being withheld, told The Post Wednesday that Weiner sent nothing obscene — and sent only two brief messages to her daughter about seeing him during an April school trip to the Capitol…
“None of us will be getting our 15 minutes of fame because of this nonsense,” the mom said. “Representative Weiner never tweeted her anything inappropriate … That is the answer, honestly.”
”Weiner’s exchanges between teacher, teen revealed
I’m sure the New York Post was crushed to have to report this; the Murdoch rag has featured front-page hit pieces on Weiner for six days in a row. — Ryking
(via ryking)
if only…
Why MSNBC is not the ‘liberal FOX News’ (…And sure enough, its (MSNBC) shows this week have been populated with guests lighting into the White House. The above video are liberal bloggers Jane Hamsher and Glenn Greenwald doing just that on MSNBC’s Dylan Rattigan’s show) AMERICAblog - continue reading Boehlert’s entire piece at MediaMattersEric Boehlert:
You know the knee-jerk claim from conservatives when Fox News comes under attack: Partisan, Dem-cheering MSNBC is just like Fox News, except from the left, so leave Rupert’s team alooooone.
Except that, of course, it’s not.
Meaning, MSNBC for most of the broadcast day actually produces a straight news product, which Fox News does not. And MSNBC for the most of the day welcomes conservatives on the air to discuss the day’s issues (paging Pat Buchanan!), which is a courtesy Fox News simply does not extend to liberals.
But more importantly, MSNBC tees off on Democrats, even during the channel’s supposedly liberal, opinionated shows, in the way Fox News absolutely refused to do when Republicans under Bush ran Washington, D.C. (And still refuses to do today.)In the last four weeks, MSNBC has probably aired more substantive criticism of the current administration than Fox News aired of the Bush administration during that president’s entire second term.
Period.
That’s why MSNBC is not the liberal counter to Fox News. Because MSNBC does not operate as an appendage to the DNC and MSNBC does not consider itself to be a purely partisan political entity, the way Fox News now so clearly is.
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…An angry (D) Rep. Rangel asked MSNBC’s Luke Russert to identify his outlet and the congressman seemed perplexed by the answer. Presumably Rangel thought he was talking to a son of Sean Hannity. Rangel protested that Russert “doesn’t really sound like NBC.” He added that “It just shows what happened to a channel that did have some respect.”
Rangel didn’t know the half of it. Not only a real question for a Democrat in trouble, but, moments ago, after playing video of the dust-up, MSNBC ran a line reminding viewers of Nancy Pelosi’s “most ethical Congress in history” pledge
”NRO - video of the Luke Russert Charlie Rangel dust-up here
“How can anyone claim MSNBC is The Fox News for The Left but then keep noting things like this?” - ggreenwald
