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Wacky new right-wing conspiracy theory: Social media are biased in favor of Barack Obama
It was only inevitable, I suppose, that the familiar conservative meme regarding the liberal bias of the mainstream media would be expanded to cover the so-called new media.
I noticed a harbinger of this trend about a year ago when some commenter here at Applesauce opined that the Internet was displaying a liberal bias. That notion is preposterous on its face, of course, considering that no one entity owns or controls the Internet. The stuff in cyberspace is comprised entirely of whatever people happen to place there, regardless of their politics.
And now we have the looney theory that …
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Tagged Barack Obama, conspiracy theories, media bias
Why are the mainstream media so much in love with Paul Ryan?
If you’re one of those conservatives to whom the unswerving liberal bias of the mainstream media is an article of faith, don’t read THIS.
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If you frighten the horses, the liberal media will tell everyone about it
Peggy Noonan had a COLUMN in The Wall Street Journal the other day in which she expressed concern that some of the Tea Party folks who got themselves elected to Congress a few weeks ago might be inclined to act a little “nutty.”
The problem, as Noonan sees it, is not the nuttiness in itself but rather the likelihood that the mainstream media, with their liberal bias, will report such nuttiness.
That’s exactly what the media did in 1994, when a new Republican Congress came to power, Noonan recalls. Those darned liberal reporters did all kinds of stories about the …
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Anatomy of a dishonest news headline about “death panels”
Mark Warren EXAMINES the politics behind a newspaper headline that falsely likens a government decision regarding an ineffective drug to the onset of dreaded “death panels.”
The purpose of such dishonesty, of course, is to stir fear among the booboisie (above).
An excerpt:
The basis for the “death panels” piece is last month’s FDA decision — by a vote of 12-1 — to no longer recommend the widely used cancer drug Avastin for use by late-stage breast cancer patients, because after further clinical trials, it has been determined that the drug (which was given provisional approval for the treatment of breast cancer
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Your so-called liberal media in action
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At last count, there were more Republican congressional incumbents than Democrats who have decided not to seek re-election this year, but that fact hasn’t deterred ABC News from reporting this:
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“Democrats are dropping like flies.”
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There’s more on this distortion HERE.
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