So, if Bush poll numbers are tanking, why is the media soft on him?

[chelsea0011]

When Kerry's reportedly small bounce evaporated, the media looked for all the negatives they could find about how his campaign is in a state of confusion. But Bush's reported large bounce is all but gone and thew poll numbers are down and the media goes very lightly on his campaign. There you have it. Liberal bias.

[SHRED]

1. Mainstream media...

is a corporate media.
Guess who the corporates like better?

[calico1]

2. This is what RFK Jr. has said.

We no longer have a real media, its a corporate media and they are beholden to the corporations. So the "news" they give is based on instructions they get from the corporation they are owned by and whatever spin they want to give it. Allowing big corporations to buy networks has been a disaster. News organizations can no longer report the truth or not as in depth as they'd like, even the few still existing reporters who want to. And a lot of the people that are now hired to be in the media would have never made the cut years ago. There no longer is a fairness doctrine which requires that both sides of an issue or story be equally reported and without bias. This is why we either hear so much spin in favor of Bush, or worse, on a day when an American was beheaded in Iraq, the top news stories were "Rathergage" and Brittany Spears wedding. This is how low American "news" has sunk. It should really be telling when the most accurate news you get these days is from sources like Jon Stewart and Dave Letterman.

[blondeatlast]

3. Exactly.

My news comes from the London Guardian, TDS, and LBN.

I would LOVE to have one OBJECTIVE source, but it ain't there.

[Davis_X_Machina]

4. The average talking head...

...makes enough to have profited greatly from his tax cuts.
The average talking head socializes solely with people who make enough to have profited greatly from his tax cuts.
The average talking head works for a coroporation that profited greatly from his tax cuts.
The average talking head works for a coroporation that stands to profit even more from the consolidation of the media.

And every journalist who isn't one of those talking heads looks in the mirror of a morning and sees someone looking back at them who's just one story, one guest panellist gig, one op-ed piece away from being one of those talking heads -- one story, one guest panellist gig, one op-ed piece away from the Ivy League for the kid, from the turbo SAAB, from the house on the Vinyard for August.

They aren't automatically part of some vast conspiracy. Never make the mistake of confusing greed with guile.

[cthrumatrix]

5. it's called corporatism.... which screws the people...it's power helping

power....less for you..more for them.

It's control and spin on negative issues that bring down power who get favors from the admin.

[redstateblues]

6. GE is making Big $$$ from the War-NBC is their media outlet