LEONARD’S DIGEST

The mainstream media and the ‘liberal bias” myth exposed again!

I have written for years about the “Liberal Media Bias” myth. As you see below there is fresh evidence that there is no such thing as a bias from the left in mainstream media. Since all the mainstream media outlets are corporate owned entities, they skew the news to the right. Always have and always will.

The idea of a “Liberal Media Bias” is so deep in the American psyche that even progressives and lefty’s buy the lie (i.e. Joseph Goebbels). The Right’s propaganda machine has churned out this lie for so long it seems to be accepted as just a fact of life.  Anyway, I’ll keep spouted the truth and maybe someone will listen. If you want to read more about the liberal media myth I would recommend Eric Alterman’s What Liberal Media? - Robert

REPORT: GOP Lawmakers Outnumber Dem Lawmakers By Almost 2 To 1 In Cable News Stimulus Debate Again»

Last week, ThinkProgress released a report showing that, in the debate over the House economic recovery bill on the five cable news networks, Republican members of Congress outnumbered their Democratic counterparts by a ratio of 2 to 1. The analysis tallied interview segments about the stimulus on CNBC, Fox Business, Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC during a three-day period, finding that the networks had hosted Republican lawmakers 51 times and Democratic lawmakers only 26 times. (READ MORE CLICK HERE)