Most average people outside the "media" which would be a very broad collection of the TV, print media, radio, internet, Hollywood, political and social organizations, etc. in today's communications world don't even know the difference between right and left in the political or social sense. This same 'media' has, perhaps purposely and perhaps without any particular intent or design or motive or agenda, has so skewed and distorted the messages they spew forth that it is difficult for the relatively uninformed or inattentive to really know what's actually going on.
In some cases, the leftist leaning media will hide their agendas and in other cases they are blatantly obvious and do so deliberately.
The 'truth' is no longer important - only the effect created or caused by the message's content. To most left leaning media, the impact of the message on the minds of the targeted audience is all that matters. The effort is to sway public opinion on any given topic to a leftist perspective without regard to any attempt to honestly inform them. The slant is often in the omitted information as much as in the 'facts' included in the story.
The left learned years ago that 'what the public does not know won't hurt the cause to be supported. When the facts honestly are told, a relatively large majority of the public can think sufficiently rationally so as to make reasonably good judgments as what is and is not best for the Nation and the people who live here. Distortion, lies and misrepresentation is the modus operandi of the left. This approach was promoted by the communists and socialists of eastern Europe and Russia for many decades.
For decades, the hard core left (perhaps a couple % or so of the population generally) denied and hid their socialist/communist inclinations for obvious reasons. Being a radical leftist was simply unacceptable to the general public, particularly in electoral politics. For good reasons of course but they knew to hide in the closet so to speak. Bernie Sanders is really the first major political candidate to publicly campaign successfully in a national election in American history. He was a legitimate threat to win the nomination but for the obvious conspiracy within the establishment of the national democrat party to prevent his campaign from actually winning. He came perilously close.
Well said. There will always be media bias, but most of the mainstream outlets Americans get their news from tend to be biased toward Democrats, while talk radio is biased toward Conservatives. We are seeing tonight a prime example with the MSM blowing up about one off-hand Trump comment to have 2nd Amendment supporters help ensure Hillary is not elected. Nearly all of his speech was focused on the real issues, yet this one comment is what dominates the news cycle. As a Republican nominee, Trump needs to be smart enough to realize this is what the MSM does...find any story that will create a negative impact on viewers toward the GOP nominee and/or minimize any negative stories about the Democratic nominee. Unfortunately Trump is not smart or disciplined enough to stop making any statements that will be blown up or taken out of context.
That is completely his fault and nobody else's. It's not the media fault. It's his.
If Clinton gave a good speech and then at the end said black gang bangers should go knock off corporate CEOs, she would be crucified in the press. The same press that is doing it with Trump.
Fact is, he's just too damn dumb to not make those comments.
I'm sick and tired of the republicans crying that the media doesn't treat them fair.
If you don't want them to report on you doing something stupid, don't do something stupid.
The entire myth is promoted by conservative outlets that make you think THEY are the only place to get the real news.
It's total BS and they are laughing all the way to the bank.
