[quote=yojimbo]”Fox News is one big Republican ad”
Fox and who else?
For the Democrat ads we have:
CNN
MSNBC
NBC
ABC
CBS
Perhaps Fox is just centrist but looks right wing relative to the other stations?[/quote]
It would be more accurate to say that the media is a distorted magnifier of the public sentiment.
Most of the presidential successes have been treated reasonably well by those same outlets.
That includes W.
I recall several panels on CNN (I am addicted) that commented in mid-2000 that Bush seems more calm, collected and comfortable than Gore.
They may distort public sentiment but I have not seen them truly misrepresent it. (EG: Lewinsky scandal).
To be fair, they (the media) are liberal (or progressive or whatever). They live in big cities and deal with diverse opinions and lifestyles. They have obvious homosexuals (eg: Anderson Cooper or Rachael Maddow) as well as racial and ethnic minorities.
The argument that the media just favors certain people unfairly, does not have a lot of value. Its a little like when so many Hillary supporters (Bill included) claimed that the media was treating Hill unfairly. Its not that this argument is totally inaccurate but to quote my favorite show “the game is the game”. In other words, get over it.
