Mika Brzezinski: The Media Does Have A Liberal Bias

[JamesA1102]

http://www.mediaite.com/online/mika-brzezinski-the-media-does-have-a-liberal-bias-thats-why-we-have-fox/">Mika Brzezinski: The Media Does Have A Liberal Bias — “That’s Why We Have Fox”

by Rachel Sklar

MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski was a guest on Julie Menin’s Give & Take and she had a lot to say about the opinion media — that is to say, the media who pretend they’re not the opinion media. Said Brzezinski of the media establishment: “I will say what people aren’t saying: It’s got a liberal worldview.”

Brzezinski said that though “there are great people working at the networks,” who work hard to remain objective, they are mostly Democrats — and it shows. “The balance is not there within the objective mainstream media. It’s not. It is not.” Brzezinski drew a distinction between those well-intentioned, if biased, colleagues and the “cartoonish” figures on the right and the left of the cable news divide, saying that she and her colleagues at Morning Joe make an effort to avoid those one-dimensional characterizations: “We try to be transparent about who we are and where we come from, and what our worldview is and what our knowledge base is on every issue. And we are not trying to be anything more than what we are. And that is extremely honest.”

When asked by host Julie Menin if liberal bias was “seeping into the coverage” Brzezinski said emphatically that yes, it was, and suggested that journalists should declare their political affiliation — and who they voted for in the last election. “Come on, are you telling me that a reporter for a great news organization does not have opinions?” said Brzezinski. “Every reporter, every anchor, every human being that is a personality on television has opinions, and has a worldview and has a slant.” Brzezinski said that audiences would appreciation the media rejecting the pretense of objectivity and declaring bias, saying “We have know that the viewer’s smart about that, and if you are fair and you are looking for the truth, you can be trusted. And you’ve got to be honest.

“The reason why we’ve got these extremes is a reaction to the “objective” mainstream media, that is so not objective when you have most of them being Democrats, or liberals, running it. That’s why we have Fox. Because it wasn’t honest. And because there was a reaction out there to this.”

The hypocrisy of this woman is off the scale. He co-hosts a show that is a shameful FAUX & Friends wannabe and then calls out the rest of the media as biased.

[YOY]

1. Stephen Colbert "The facts have a liberal bias."

In the greatest display of balls the country has recently seen.

[KamaAina]

43. "Reality has a well-known liberal bias."

Love ya Colbert! :yourock:

[WeDidIt]

2. GOOD GRAVY!!!

Mika Mouse is more cartoonish than the spokesmodel Bimbos on Faux Noise, for gods' sakes.

Jesus Christ on a Trailer Hitch!

[timeforpeace]

3. So what if they're mostly Democrats?

[Lasher]

4. Well when you're Mika, everybody to the left of Dick Cheney seems like a liberal.

So I could see how she would believe that.

[GreenMetalFlake]

5. pure bullshit, and conservatives, even bill kristol, admit it cons invented the myth

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ei=nhxWS_DsFYbYM8iYiYwJ&sa=X&oi=spellfullpage&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=2&ved=0CAcQvwUoAQ&&q=liberal+media+myth&spell=1

[sui generis]

6. okay. let's play with this turdling.

Define "liberal".

Seriously. Define it. What does liberal mean to YOU.

Because if I define conservative, what I get to is Fox news, ad hominem, petty, concerned with authority, control, and villifying anyone who opposes their brand of "morality".

Conservative, to me, means selfish, self centered, self-interested, abundant sentimentality without a shred of compassion, pushing buttons, inflaming the mob, and outright intentional, knowledgeable, with malice-aforethought, lying.

So if liberal means upholding standards of journalistic integrity, then so be it.

[GreenMetalFlake]

8. the media is only as "lib" as the corps who own it, and corps are private tyrannies

hardly democratic, let alone liberal

[ShamelessHussy]

7. CORPORATE bias is more like it, and exactly why we have FAUX NEWS

[marmar]

25. +100

nt

[TexasObserver]

9. If you could remove all the bullshit from Mika, all that would be left is ...

... some blonde hair, a pair of diamond earrings, and a pair of Gucci shoes.

She's the village idiot from the extended Brzezinski family. Anyone who looks up to Sarah Palin is standing in a hole.

[Walk away]

10. Wingnuts watch FAUX in the AM. It is up to us to turn Joe and Meeka off.

Just don't watch or listen to these people. They will go away if they have no audience.

[wryter2000]

11. Heard on Stephanie Miller

Charlie Pierce called Morning Joe "Squint and the Meat Puppet." I almost drove off the road when he said that.

[arthritisR_US]

12. which one is the meat puppet? n/t

[wryter2000]

22. Scarborough squints

That would make Mika the meat puppet.

[mmonk]

14. It IS a good description.

[wryter2000]

23. Nice picture of mama

:hi:

[mmonk]

29. Thanks, it's from 2007.

It was at a fundraiser held in Chapel Hill for an animal shelter by WCHL. My dog, ironically, died about 4:00 a.m. that morning at home and I had been up nearly all night with him. I was tired but the event was still fun. He is the dog in my avatar.

:hi:

[arthritisR_US]

31. I adore her! :-) n/t

[BeHereNow]

13. Memo to Mika: Shut the fuck up, you bubble headed twit.

BHN

[arthritisR_US]

32. she reminds of a line from Molly Ivins "if her IQ drops any lower we'll have

to water her".

[BeHereNow]

33. Great line!!!

How many duh'murikkans do you think would tolerate
her on their televisions if they knew the damage
her father had done to this country?
BHN

[spiritual_gunfighter]

15. Just when I thought she couldn't get anymore worthless n/t

[Cleita]

16. That show should be renamed Dumb and Dumber. n/t

[Skidmore]

17. This is the woman, per her promo ad, who learned that after years

of being in journalism it wasn't her job to tell the story, but her perspective, and let the chips fall where they may? Mika ruined her own career by becoming Joey's foil and a an insult to women everywhere. I get sick of that giggly, jiggly, sexkitten stuff and the middle-aged drunken, drug-addled mommy BS she pulls. I don't care if it is schtick. It's is an insult to all working women. No woman should take her advise on anything, after watching her work.

[jgraz]

18. Mika has a stupid bias.

[immoderate]

19. Revelation: Progressives are objective. Conservatives are biased.

Progressive objectives are to do the most good for the most people and society as a whole. That's objective. Conservatives follow their own personal interest. That's biased.

QED

--imm

[JHB]

20. "Avoid those one-dimensional characterizations"?

With Joey Scar in the lead spot?

[Dr.Phool]

21. You'd think old Zbigniew could have afforded a better school for her.

She thinks Abraham Lincoln was a founding father.

[truebrit71]

24. Proof beyond doubt that this woman is as dumb as a bag of hammers...

...Fucking stupid...:grr:

[depakid]

26. What an idiot

Does this person have a complete inability to view what she sees and reads world objectively? To read academic studies? Surely she's spent some time abroad an seen how media behaves outside her culture of lie?

Then again, maybe not.

[City Lights]

27. Mika, you're either full of shit or three sheets to the wind.

Or maybe both. Either way you're an embarrassment to women.

[Writer]

28. They "does," Mika? n/t

[Cha]

30. Puppet Propagandists like mika push that to confuse the easily

brainwashed.

[Terra Alta]

34. MSNBC should ask Faux for a trade.

MSNBC gives Faux Joe and this bimbo; Faux gives MSNBC Shep Smith(the closet thing to decency Faux has). Sounds like a pretty good deal to me.

[mmonk]

35. At the very least, an even swap.

[librechik]

36. Mika, it doesn't matter who the peons are. Republicans OWN the media now, without question

and they make their workers serve them and their corporate bottom line. And your glibness about liberal bias is intentionally misleading--YOUR bias is obvious and it sure ain't liberal.

Sure, 30 years ago things were a little different, and there was some ground for believing the lie you just told. But that was long long ago. Maybe you're just out of touch, and not a liar.

[proud2BlibKansan]

37. I so can't stand this woman

She is incredibly wrong here. It's not about who the reporters are - it's about who owns the media. And that group is dominated by republicans.

[Rockholm]

38. LOL. Yep, that librul bias is in rare form today.

[Hekate]

39. Did she stamp her little feet when she said that? Colbert is correct: Facts have a well-known...

... liberal bias.

Hekate

[Robyn66]

40. WHERE IS THE BIAS!!

I LOVE how these ASSHOLES say this all the time and I have YET to see an example!!!
:grr: :nuke:

[anonymous171]

41. The media has been found to have a liberal bias on Social issues

And an extremely RW bias when it comes to economic issues. Though anyone who has seen the MSM "coverage" on NAFTA back in the 90s would know that already.

[butterfly77]

42. What in the hell is she talking about..

I watched as much as I could stand this morning while Peggy noonan,Mike,Scarb,and the rest of the crew began attacking Donny Duetch because he wouldn't agree with them so they all began attacking like usual trying to make sure his voice wasn't heard or his point didn't get across as they stalled for the commericial breaks..

[Festivito]

44. I'm lib, my boss is NOT, I want a raise, guess what your news gonna sound like!

My boss' boss' boss' boss sits on the boards of several large companies that supply wartime equipment. He makes enough money supplying equipment to buy several newspapers, as if he want to, and so guess which side of the story I'd better tell if I want him to be happily making more money.

He already got rid of all the ones who didn't think this through.

Do you need more hints?

You're an idiot, and I'm buying a new Lexus.

/satire

[Quantess]

45. There is no reason for her to be on a "news" channel.

She is thoroughly, utterly unqualified for her job, and she embarrasses me a little bit on behalf of all women.