You should watch a variety of news outlets, if only just to separate the wheat from the chafe. Don't be like the some of the mindless zombies out there that never watch a certain news channel and continually criticize it. Give it a watch, no matter how partisan it is. Then you will be a truly informed citizen with an insight on why people are they way they are.

The funny part is to see liberals try to spin the lie that the media is unbiased.

EVERYONE is not, as is evidenced by the alternate media.  But as liberals try to discount and discontinue that because it is a threat to the former monopoly they had.  It is evident that they would like the alternates to go away, but it is also evident that the alternates are gaining strength at the expense of the traditional MSM.

And it is also evident that you love to spin.  Yes, everyone that does not agree with you must be ignorant boobs that would best be hidden away like the crazy uncle in the closet.

Unfortunately, that is not happening.  And the more the rest of the world discovers the lies the MSM perpetrates on them, they angrier they get. 

But continue your delusion.  I do understand about people getting violent when their delusions are threatened.

And lest we forget at one time EVERYONE thought slavery was okey dokey.  And at one time EVERYONE thought the world was flat.  And at one time EVERYONE thought the earth was the center of the universe.

Only apparently not EVERYONE did since some were wise enough to question the prevailing wisdom and learn the truth.

I am sure you feel safe and secure being part of EVERYONE.

I do pop over to JU every once in a great while if only for comic relief. Inevitably when I do your boring me too threads or blogs (whatever) suddenly spring to some semblance of life if only because finally you have someone that disagrees with you. For as long as I'm present in a thread there's activity that's seldom seen and once I leave the thread dies out in short order.

You folks are the "fanboys chanting in mindless agreement 24/7", you must have really boring lives to hang out here any appreciable length of time.

But to actually address the point made in the OP the MSM does not have a liberal bias, it has a stupid bias. It's biased to the lowest common denominator of the American public which is stupidity.

It used to be that the major news outlets were real journalists. They verified their sources and in general simply reported the facts and let the reader or listener come to their own conclusions. The BBC and even to some limited extent the CBC still pretty much does that today but the American media has long since abandoned that methodology.

Instead the American media’s sense of fairness is now to simply have a representative from each side of any particular story and as long as each side gets relatively equal time to state their case then they’ve been “fair and balanced”.

In many cases that’s probably true, where there are two reasonable sides to a discussion and the chosen representatives are equally cogent then a certain amount of balance is inevitable. However the other aspect of journalism that has been lost is the idea that if you see someone walking down the street with a monkey taking a dump on their head you were allowed to point out the obvious and say “there’s a guy walking down the street with a monkey taking a dump on his head.”

This is exhibited when there really aren’t two reasonable sides to the conversation. When it’s clear to any reasonable person that one side is in fact the lunatic fringe and the other side are the 90% of people that aren’t crazy.

But even in this case the MSM will still get some representative from the lunatic fringe to sit opposite someone normal and give each their equal time to present their case and not once does the “journalist” question the obvious craziness spouted by the lunatic fringe.

This isn’t balanced it’s just stupid. When you give the crazy’s a stage and equal time and don’t bother to question their craziness then you’re conveying a sense of legitimacy that’s a lie.

So the MSM does not have a liberal bias, in fact they’re very careful to always have a republican to balance every democrat. But they’ll still put up birthers, global warming deniers, creationists, teabaggers and the like against anyone normal but fail to ask the obvious question of “you can’t be serious?”

If you want to at least pretend to have an open mind then here’s a couple of articles you should read on the subject.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_balance

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_bias_in_the_United_States

Ah!  The contempt of the noblesse oblige!  That of course they know and the rest of us unwashed masses cant possibly know!  They know it all!  Thank god someone does.

But the statement is telling in another way.  When you are so arrogant that you cannot imagine that you do not know everything,  of course you will never see the bias in a source that agrees with you.

Thank god most of mankind is not cursed with the "know it all" syndrome and some actually can and do learn.  And others just soak up government welfare because they already know it all.

Of course one runs a site for them to post their arrogance - at the expense of the owner.  The other just sneers at the free icecream and the idiot that provides it.

Actually in point of fact I often disagree with ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN and even on occasion MSNBC but I do so because they can often show a conservative bias.

The thing is that you guys are so rabidly right wing that anyone to the left of Rush Limbaugh must be a liberal. This is demonstrated by the fact that most of the folks on JU that you consider liberal are nowhere near liberal, at best most are moderate conservatives, there's not a true liberal among them. But you wouldn't know the difference. This is why everything appears to you to have a liberal bias because you're so far right that there's nothing to the right of you.

I can tell I'm far closer to the center than you are simply because I can look at various news sources and see that there are not only reports that I consider to have a conservative bias but that there are also reports that are too liberal for even my taste. In your case you're so far off the edge there is simply *nothing* too far to the right of your position.

BTW don't get so excited, you might pop a blood vessel. A little back and forth banter like this is all in good fun but in all honesty I don't want to be responsible for giving someone an aneurism. 

From http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mf

1.  mf  

(i) Mother Fucker
(ii) My Friend

definition (i) is more commonly seen in chatrooms; whereas definition (ii) seen in multiplayer games.

if someone uses mf towards you, it's best to pretend you dont understand, so they will explain - either (i) or (ii). Since you don't want to just start insulting them.

Try MUMBLE FRATZ.  But then that would be too simplistic to your giant brain.  Only one who knows everything would not see the most obvious.

I think we have already read your condescending condemnation of all non believers in the school of MF (oops!  That explective deleted again!). Sorry, an Opinion starts "I think".  Not "You folks are".  The latter indicates a statement of fact.

I would say there is hope for you given your young age.  But your writings clearly indicate that since you know it all, you wont learn any more.

"In Fact" you did not come in here and state your opinion, you came in here and attempted to denigrate, belittle and insult all non believers in the school of MF (ommmm!!!!! There it goes again).  And in the process, just showed all who was the small and close minded bigot here,

I do pity you, but then that is lost on the omniscient mind that inhabits the skull, right?

YOu remind me of the old adage "best to be silent and thought the fool, than open your mouth and remove all doubt".

I guess I just dont have any tolerance for fools who know everything.  So call me intolerant of fools.

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They say far more about you then they do about me.

If that's what it takes to make you feel like a man then insult away.

As I said your insults mean nothing to me and if anything I find your attempts amusing, although the continued repetition of the same insults *is* getting a bit boring. You could try to be a little more inventive.

I could easily respond in kind and in spades but what really is the point? Do you really still subscribe to the idea that anyone "wins" on the internet? If so then perhaps I'll let you win sooner or later because I got over that a long time ago. However if I do let you win it will be because I either got bored or was feeling magnanimous, or some combination thereof.

I have seen a few of AJ's posts and replies but he's not really even a liberal. At best he's a blue dog democrat but more likely he's a moderate conservative. However compared to the typical JU denizen it's easy to see why you would believe him to be liberal. The sad part is that he actually seems to try to be reasonable but he may as well be tilting at windmills.

As you know I hardly ever specifically visit JU. However, there is the inevitable cross talk when forums get shared across multiple sites and so after close to 4 years as a SD user I am familiar with the writings of a number of folks, you included.