About the Media's right leaning take on things

[edhopper]

In seeing how the MSM kept repeating right wing talking points during the Stimulus debate, I remind myself that the Media was very, very late in recognizing how much America really hated George Bush. (if they ever truly did?)

[CJCRANE]

1. The MSM is meant to be a profit-making enterprise

so I really don't understand why most of the time they cater to the minority (RW viewers).

[edhopper]

2. I think

The RW has convinced them this is a Center-Right Country. It's not it's a Moderate-Progressive Country.

[stillcool]

3. I see only one thing cable news is good for...

to manage perception and create reality.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Broadcast_Media/HowToWatchTVNews.html

excerpts from the book
How To Watch TV News
by Neil Postman and Steve Powers
Penguin Books, 2008, paperback

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Ben Bagdikian
Though today's media reach more Americans than ever before, they are controlled by the smallest number of owners than ever before... in 1983, there were fifty dominant media corporations, today there are five.
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Senator Ernest Hollings (D-SC)
The top five programmers - Viacom/CBS, Disney/ABC, NBC, Time Warner and News Corp./Fox - now control 75 percent of prime-time programming and are projected to increase their share to 85 percent.