USA (no{at}thanks.com) writes:
> On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:11:35 -0600, "HombreVIII"

> wrote:
>
>> wrote in message
>>news:l1cb419i6fr0eh7b8oufeu55btepsu0q9t{at}4ax.com...
>>> All media is left leaning
>>
>>Which explains why the terms "monopoly" and
"anti-competitive" haven't been
>>uttered in a sentence together on television in decades.
>>
>>Hint: The media telling us how extremely left wing it is and that as
>>reasonable people we should always hold a view more right wing than whatever
>>it says does not make it true.
>>
>>http://www.bartcop.com/libmedia.htm
>>
> What a lame site.
>
> Other favorite liberal arguments go something like:
>
> "GE is a huge evil corporation and it owns NBC so obviously
> conservatives (the big corporation) are in control of the media."
>
> If that were true there would be no fag shows or fag anything on Bravo
> (a cable channel owned and run by NBC). But there are plenty of such
> trashy crap shows in evidence.  For example, ever hear of "Queer Eye
> for the Straight Guy"?  Or how about the NBC show "Will and
Grace"?
> These days a homo is inserted into every TV show almost as if every
> family has one of their own which is far from accurate.

Theres a basic MS-take in this " argument ". ( BTW, it works both ways )

Its the ASSumption that personal politics mean much of anything, when
the almighty profit picture is in sight.

So, networks cater, and pander, to *whatever* views they believe
will sell their soap, when it comes to their *fictional* shows.

Once you leave the areas of specific and acknowledged fiction, then
things change... to some degree. With so much news going around every
minute of every day, of course, even 24/7/365 news channels *have to*
choose what they will put on, and what they will focus on. ( And,
no news channel actually offers news 24/7/365. All have... shows,
too. )

So, we get hours about the unfortunate lady in Florida, and a few
seconds of F4J protesters. So, we do know that theres a similar
" what do we believe our audience wnats to see/hear " bias in play.

It may, or may not, line up with the political views of the owners.

> If conservatives were doing the hands on running of either the
> entertainment or news departments of the alphabet networks and their
> cable clones, you wouldn't hear the words gay, lesbian, or homosexual
> and you certainly wouldn't see any.

Sure you would. As theres still millions of people ( See recent
Democratic vote counts, and demographic placings of those votes )
who want to see that, and will BUY what the networks that give that
to them advertise.

> Why does GE let liberals run NBC news and entertainment divisions?

Do they ? I speak not of reporters, but of editors, et al.

> Because they are still making big money.  When that ceases to be true
> we might see a change.

Indeed.

> In light of what happened with idiot Dan
> Rather, it seems Viacom is starting to pay attention to how costly CBS
> News is to run because it has virtually no ratings.  Even so they
> won't become a conservative run news division but rather CBS News will
> probably pretty much cease to exist.  Hopefully NBC and ABC will
> follow shortly there after.

Well, they might adapt, too. We'll see....

Andre

--
" I'm a man... But, I can change... If I have to... I guess. "
                                    The Man Prayer, Red Green.


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