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Originally posted by CamB
Guys - I don't dispute that journalists are predominantly liberal. Some but not all mainstream news outlets are arguably liberal biased, just as some are conservative biased (we do have a more even split here).
It is hard for your media - on an international basis they aren't "liberal". They are in the centre. Should they be right of that to avoid bias in the US? Maybe so - you guys might be right.
But the main point I want to make is that a lot of the time the sins that you guys (and others) blame on the media being "liberal" should more correctly be blamed on the media being sluts to ratings and making money. In this instance I believe they are whoring themselves to whatever works in the public eye.
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The proof that the the mainstream media in the US and elsewhere is not "just after ratings" can be found in the popularity of FOX news, which kicks CNN and MSNBC's asses here in the US. FOX is successful because they offer conservative viewpoints that the rest of the MSM don't. If CNN et al. were interested in "ratings" rather than their liberal agenda, they'd follow FOX's lead and put on some conservatives for balance, but they don't.