Small Proof of media bias?

[MobBoss]

Interesting story here: http://www.examiner.com/a-128975~President_Bush_s_victories_receiving_little_attention.html

I for one certainly think his victories get less press attention than his losses.

 

[Masquerouge]

Interesting story here: http://www.examiner.com/a-128975~President_Bush_s_victories_receiving_little_attention.html

I for one certainly think his victories get less press attention than his losses.

Don't tell me you just discovered that media are biased?

 

[Truronian]

The media is always biased like this, irrespective of who's the subject. Criticism sells better.

 

[Che Guava]

Exactly. No matter who's in power, the media likes to at least pretend that its operating at arm's length, and there's no better way to do that than criticize...

 

[warpus]

It's their job to be critical, especially of the establishment.

 

[jameson]

Seeing as the Examiner newspapers are owned by a guy called Philip Anschutz, a Texas oilman who has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to the GOP and hundreds of thousands more to various socially conservative causes, we have to wonder whether the newspaper's complaints against bias in the media aren't in fact, biased themselves.

 

[Sidhe]

Sublime logic Jameson.

Of course the media is biased, it'll be just as biased against incompetent democratic governments too, when George the III was in power they ridiculed his son(the prince regent) Because he was a decadent fop and widely percieved as an idiot, that's liberal news papers for you, the Wigs(pro monarchy conservatives) were outraged by this then, but we should be used to it by now.

 

[Rik Meleet]

Interesting story here: http://www.examiner.com/a-128975~President_Bush_s_victories_receiving_little_attention.html

I for one certainly think his victories get less press attention than his losses.

You are right. This is a small proof of media bias.

The reason -as I see it- is because in such a large country the demand for attention is similarly large. I've heard that in the USA the news is generally focussed to the negative side of things; focussed on the fears of people. The thought behind it is that fear keeps people attention longer and the longer the people watch your channel, the more money you get. Good news just hasn't the same attention span as bad news. It's not "we don't like Bush, so we only bring bad news on him" - it's a hard to avoid symptom of having commercial networks that compete with eachother where truth and unbiasedness is second to getting as many viewers for as long as possible.

 

[VoodooAce]

Proof?

Bush has quietly been racking up small victories like these that seem at odds with the media’s conventional wisdom of a presidency on the skids.

I'd say that this is closer to proving the bias of the writer/publication. I mean, 'the media’s conventional wisdom of a presidency on the skids'???? Uh, dubya's approval rating is less than a third of the people. His presidency is 'on the skids', and its not the media that says so, its the American people...at least 2/3 of them.

 

[jameson]

Sublime logic Jameson.

Thanks ! Except I can't tell whether you're being ironic or serious here !

Just for clarification, I was assuming MobBoss tried to make a point re media bias in a particular direction, and that's what I was responding to.

 

[blackheart]

Interesting story here: http://www.examiner.com/a-128975~President_Bush_s_victories_receiving_little_attention.html

I for one certainly think his victories get less press attention than his losses.

Yes, the liberal media must be trying to hide the fact that the government does run with the president pushing through some of his efforts. It must be so shocking that even Fox News doesn't give much attention to it! It musn't be the fact that such news would belong on C-SPAN and bore 90% of Americans to death.