Sarah Palin

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damkira said:

bimmylee said:

damkira said:

oldschoolfool said:

Why won't she go away. I'm tired of the Sarah palin coverage. She was the vice president canidate for John Mcain for the people that don't know who she is. She left the door open for a 2012 run for president. What a sad day it would be if she ran. I'm also tired of the tea party coverage. Yeah we get it no goverment,taxes blah,blah,blah-end rant.

The majority of media in the U.S. has a conservative slant to it and, to conservatives, whatever Sarah Palin does is considered news. Of course, all this media coverage is backfiring on her. This is a person who has to write down answers to press questions on her hand...

I'd definitely disagree on the conservative slant... I'd say it's the other way around. When you have people like Lou Dobbs on CNN (though he recently resigned), Keith Olbermann on MSNBC, and Katie Couric on CBS, it's quite liberal.

But as far as Palin goes, only a fool would argue with you; what a crap candidate.

Hmm.. you guys have:

Fox News

CNN

The Washington Times

National Review

New York Post

Wall Street Journal

etc.

etc.

We used to have Air America but it recently went off the air because.. well nobody listened to it and even I would agree it was very boring.

The Los Angeles Times has a liberal slant but I can't think of any other major news outlets that do. Yes, MSNBC has Keith Olbermann and Rachael Maddow but they also have Joe Scarbourough and Pat Buchanan.

I have no idea what you used to discern that CNN was right leaning.....baffling....

Left Leaning Outlets

• CNN
• MSNBC
• ABC
• New York Times
• Washington Post (The editorial board does lean right, but the actual news reportage is left leaning)
• LA Times
• SF Chronicle
• Boston Globe
• Denver Post
• New York Daily News
• St. Petersburg Times
• Atlanta Constitution
• Miami Herald
• Kansas City Star
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• Oregonian
• And the vast majority of other regional and local newspaper outlets.....
• Newsweek
• Time
• And thats about as far as I can go off the top of my head right now (I don't follow magazines as much as I do papers)....

Of course if that doesn't do it for you, here is the press release of a 2005 study done by UCLA (itself a liberal institution) and performed by polisci college students (again notoriously liberal).  Here is the major takeaway from that study:

Of the 20 major media outlets studied, 18 scored left of center, with CBS' "Evening News," The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times ranking second, third and fourth most liberal behind the news pages of The Wall Street Journal.

Or if you prefer we can use polls - this one from Gallup last October (4 months ago):

Public opinion may not be good for settling disputes of subjective close calls, but when people say the media is "too liberal" VS "too conservative" by a 3:1 margin I think it becomes fairly obvious that it's not even a close call.