Liberalism in the Modern Media

Is the media liberal? Quite a few people seem to think so. I, however, am not one of them. Now, of course, this blog is part of the massive catch-all word 'media', and this blog is certainly liberal, but thats beyond the point. The point is that the 'mainstream media' (i.e. newspapers, TV news channels, radio) does not have a secret liberal bias that they won't admit to.

As a first example I will examine TV. CNN, Fox, MSNBC, CNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, etc, etc. Many charge these channels with being liberal. I will readily admit that a great percentage of the reporters probably are liberal. However, the owners of these companies, being CEOs, are much more likely to be conservative, and it is ultimately their desicion what kind of content is shone.

As far as radio, the largest radio station is probably NPR, which is public radio. Public radio relies on "listener support" to keep broadcasting, and unless liberals are the only people who listen to radio (which isn't beyond the relm of possibility, but which would be really sad if it were the case), the owners of NPR aren't going to create a liberally biased broadcast.

I'm using the same sort of argument with newpapers as I did with TV, that corporations own a lot of these newspapers.

Also, with the death of investigative reporting, i don't think the media is doing enough to look into whether what the administration is saying is true or not. I think the media is trying too hard to not appear liberal.

(this post was composed and posted at 5:46, June 11, but i played around with the time stamp)