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In Australia the Main Stream Media is left leaning progressive, by about 6 to 1. If not more.

Americans are tired of liberals skewing the mainstream news

The influence of the Democratic Party on mainstream media bias against conservatives is not going over well with American voters. According to a recent Rasmussen Reports poll, a majority of respondents disagree with the decision of the Democratic National Committee to exclude Fox News from hosting any of its primary debates for the 2020 presidential election.

The survey found that 56 percent of likely voters want the Democrats to allow Fox News, the most watched cable news network in the country, to host at least one of the 12 primary debates that the Democratic National Committee has scheduled ahead of the 2020 election. Conversely, only 28 percent of respondents agree with the decision to blacklist Fox News from hosting a debate, while 15 percent of respondents are undecided.

This reaction from voters reflects the widespread disgust with the much too close for comfort relationship between the Democratic Party and the liberal media. For more than two years, the mainstream media has amplified the talking points of the left and attacked President Trump at every opportunity. At the same time, the press has grudgingly covered positive business and economic developments and the many global accomplishments that President Trump has enjoyed on the world stage.

While this disregard for journalistic ethics is nothing new, the degree of media bias has gotten worse over time.

In 2014, an Indiana University survey found that only 7 percent of journalists identified as Republicans while 28 percent identified as Democrats. In 2002, the same study found that 18 percent of journalists identified as Republicans and 36 percent said that they were Democrats. In just more than a decade, a two to one Democratic Party advantage had grown into a four to one discrepancy.

A study conducted by the Center for Public Integrity during the 2016 election revealed that more than 96 percent of political donations from journalists went to the Hillary Clinton campaign.

Moreover, just a few weeks ago, prominent television journalist Lara Logan warned that the mainstream media harbors serious political bias, arguing that the right leaning news outlets often get drowned out by the liberal publications.

“Visually, anyone who has ever been to Israel and been to the Wailing Wall has seen that the women have this tiny little spot in front of the wall to pray, and the rest of the wall is for the men,” Logan explained. “That is a great representation of the American media” where in a tiny corner “you have Breitbart and Fox News and a few others, and from there on, you have CBS, ABC, NBC, Huffington Post, Politico, whatever” she declared.

The American people have taken notice of the increasingly shrill left wing echo chamber in the press, and they are starting to get fed up with “news” headlines that simply parrot Democratic Party talking points. According to a Monmouth University survey last year, 77 percent of voters think that “fake news reporting happens at least occasionally” in the mainstream media, an increase from 63 percent of voters who thought so in 2017.

By excluding a major cable news network with journalists who are willing to ask candidates tough questions, the Democratic National Committee is only doubling down on its heavy influence on the mainstream media and denying voters the right to know all the facts about the people vying to become our next president. American voters are certainly not pleased.

Is the msm media biased to the Left in America?

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"The American people have taken notice of the increasingly shrill left wing echo chamber in the press, and they are starting to get fed up with “news” headlines that simply parrot Democratic Party talking points."

There is most definitely a left wing bias in MSM. Journalistic integrity has been replaced with a false sense of "moral fortitude" by highly opinionated news anchors railing on the right with personal attacks. More specifically Trump, and his staunch MAGA hat wearing supporters.

The entertainment packaging of news in general has really placed the priority of "catchy" over "facts". Headlines are riddled with unecessary words and phrases to cover a story. Trumps tweets are placed as having momentous meaning rather than the actual actions he's taking. It's a circus.

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Serious praise should go to the famously brave CBS reporter, Lara Logan, for telling the truth in a recent interview, in saying that the media both nationally and internationally is hideously biased leftward.

“The media everywhere is mostly liberal,” Logan told podcaster Mike Ritland, citing her 30 years in professional journalism. “In this country, 85 percent of journalists are registered Democrats …. I always joke that another 14 percent were too lazy to register, and that there’s maybe one percent that is on the Right.”

She continued: “Visually, anyone who’s ever been to Israel and been to the Wailing Wall has seen that the women have this tiny little spot in front of the wall to pray, and the rest of the wall is for the men. To me, that’s a great representation of the American media, is that in this tiny little corner where the women pray you’ve got Breitbart and Fox News and a few others, and from there on, you have CBS, ABC, NBC, Huffington Post, Politico, whatever, right? All of them. And that’s a problem for me.”

The bias is nothing new, Logan said, but the standards of professionalism have dropped precipitously:

“Although the media has always been historically always been left-leaning, we’ve abandoned our pretense, or at least the effort, to be objective today ... That means we’ve become political activists in a sense and, some could argue, propagandists — and there’s some merit to that.”

Logan elaborated on these points at considerable length, and with considerable thoughtfulness and insight, even while acknowledging that being so forthright might be “professional suicide for me.”

This is important. Journalists on the Right surely can all tell of conversations with supposedly mainstream or “establishment” media figures who admit a liberal bias in the profession, but who say it is benign. The establishmentarian will say something along the lines of, “well, journalism just attracts people who care about fairness and social justice and who are compassionate, whereas conservatives care more about making money. But because we [the liberals] are committed to the truth, that means we’re fair to everybody.”

Note the assumptions that liberals are morally superior and conservatives are greedy. Well, when that is your bias going in, how can you possibly be fair to conservatives, whom you think are your moral inferiors? The bias itself blinds those establishmentarians to the harmful effects their bias produces.

Case in point: The Feb. 17 New York Times “news” article headlined — I’m not kidding — “Republicans hope to sway voters with labels that demonize Democrats.” Seriously.

Question: In the past 60 years, has the Times ever run a piece whose theme is that Democrats are trying to “demonize” the poor, victimized Republicans?

By this telling, Republicans are “unusually aggressive … meant to strangle … mischaracterize legislation backed by Democrats… caricaturing [Speaker Nancy Pelosi].” Meanwhile, the poor abused Democrats, apparently correctly (according to the tone of the piece), “see an insidious effort to use women and minorities, especially women of color, as the new symbols of the radical ‘other.’”

And so on, and on, and on, and on. Democrats are saints. When they push socialism, anti-Semitism, and abortion up to the moment of birth, they are merely misunderstood. Republicans, however, are evil, attempting to demonize and "other-ize" them.

If you missed that subtext, context, and conclusion in this “news” article, then you can’t read.

Lara Logan is correct, and the media outlets who pretend she’s wrong are either dishonest or hypocritical or both. And if this little column is “demonizing” the establishment media...well, so be it. Some demons are real.

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