How do Republicans compete with media bias

[Person Man]

The only systematic bias that exists in most American mass media is towards whatever will sell more newspapers/magazines/get more web traffic/higher ratings. Although journalists as a profession tend to be Democrats, no one who looks at the press honestly can say they are not trying hard to be fair in most cases. The owners of these institutions, however, want to engage in sensationalism to increase profits, so they expect to journalists to do what will get that audience. Because there are so many more trained journalists than there are job openings for them (I think the statistic is that there are more people who graduate with journalism degrees each year than there are total full-time professional journalism jobs), journalists have no choice but to comply, even if the sensationalism goes against the public interest and their own journalistic instincts. Also, because journalism is such a competitive job market, and because most major news organizations sell themselves to their audiences based on being fair/accurate/unbiased/reliable, it would be career suicide for any journalist to intentionally slant the news.

In reality, this.

If there is a liberal conspiracy to use the media to trick people into voting for them, you would think that a group with a multibillion dollar budget and thousands of man-years of experience in journalism would have more success. I find a liberal media conspiracy conspiracy (where there's a conspiracy to perpetuate the myth of a conspiracy in order to get the same effect as having your own conspiracy without it actually being your conspiracy)(see South Park's take on the 9/11 conspiracy)  as likely as a liberal media conspiracy.

[H. Ross Peron]

If anything the media with their moderate heroism (at least on most networks except for FOX and MSNBC) ends up being far more beneficial to the GOP's vastly unpopular beliefs than to the Democrats.

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LOL, the reason why Youtube seems so liberal is because they ARE NOT the media, which has a right-wing bias.

[Brittain33]

Naso hasn't come back to this thread, has he?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Naso hasn't come back to this thread, has he?

As Mr. Kemp pointed out earlier

Is this another one of those Naso generated threads, where Naso says something provocative, and then splits, never to post again?  Naso seems to not even have a scintilla of marsupial instincts when it comes to hosting and nurturing his own threads. He just leaves his mark like a male dog peeing out the perimeter of his territory, and then repairs to his den.

[pbrower2a]

The only systematic bias that exists in most American mass media is towards whatever will sell more newspapers/magazines/get more web traffic/higher ratings. Although journalists as a profession tend to be Democrats, no one who looks at the press honestly can say they are not trying hard to be fair in most cases. The owners of these institutions, however, want to engage in sensationalism to increase profits, so they expect to journalists to do what will get that audience. Because there are so many more trained journalists than there are job openings for them (I think the statistic is that there are more people who graduate with journalism degrees each year than there are total full-time professional journalism jobs), journalists have no choice but to comply, even if the sensationalism goes against the public interest and their own journalistic instincts. Also, because journalism is such a competitive job market, and because most major news organizations sell themselves to their audiences based on being fair/accurate/unbiased/reliable, it would be career suicide for any journalist to intentionally slant the news.

Much so. The bias shifts as the wind changes direction. The literal reporting of a story rarely has bias. AP wires are arguably the best news source that can exist from the standpoint of lack of bias because the reporter getting the data cannot add or subtract. If a fire breaks out, the journalist can't report that it is likely arson; he simply lacks the time in which to report that conclusion.

News agencies are as much trimmers as any if they don't have any core beliefs.  Example: CNN was often reviled as "the Clinton Network" in the 1990s before it 'out-Foxed' FoX for right-wing bias when Dubya was apparently flying high politically. As credibility of the 43rd President vanished, it turned on him and showed a marked liberal bias that it held until the TEA Party won big.  But that is cable news.

Newspapers are struggling to stay solvent; don't be surprised if one or more big cities end up without an 'old and distinguished' daily as these go under. Circulation and ad revenue are  the only relevant measures of financial success, and finances now trump all else. Maybe some will survive by selling out such credibility as they have, becoming tabloids with content similar to that of the National Enquirer or going under the control of political parties, special interests, and religious cults. Wait till you see a newspaper owned by the American Petroleum Institute, the Teamsters Union, or the Koch Foundation.   

[Hatman 🍁]

Naso hasn't come back to this thread, has he?

As Mr. Kemp pointed out earlier

Is this another one of those Naso generated threads, where Naso says something provocative, and then splits, never to post again?  Naso seems to not even have a scintilla of marsupial instincts when it comes to hosting and nurturing his own threads. He just leaves his mark like a male dog peeing out the perimeter of his territory, and then repairs to his den.

^^^

Naso is a troll and should be banned.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Naso hasn't come back to this thread, has he?

As Mr. Kemp pointed out earlier

Is this another one of those Naso generated threads, where Naso says something provocative, and then splits, never to post again?  Naso seems to not even have a scintilla of marsupial instincts when it comes to hosting and nurturing his own threads. He just leaves his mark like a male dog peeing out the perimeter of his territory, and then repairs to his den.

^^^

Naso is a troll and should be banned.

[All Along The Watchtower]

The media occasionally supports Democratic political views as often as it supports Republican ones-when the Democrats are corporate-friendly and "moderate", which fits most Democrats these days.

[badgate]

Have you guys heard of Rare.us? It's a conservative news source that purports to be "the right's HuffPo". http://rare.us/

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

The problem is the tea party. The tea party not conservatives are viewed negatively. They were the culprit of the sequester cuts. People want parties working together. IRS who held back rebate checks and sequester cuts have people negative about politics. Tea party get blamed most of time.