In what ways do you think the media is biased towards issues and events that are discussed?

Like Matt said, the mainstream news media reported on the Beck rally has having 10 of thousands. There were over half a million. And for some reason they go out of their way to say the crowd was mostly white. Al Sharpton had a rally the same day, but the media didn't say that crowd was mostly black.

I saw a report by ABC news the night before the rally. There was a black reporter interviewing Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King. Alveda King gave a Speech at the Glenn Beck rally. This reporter seemed mad at her and was frowning asking question like "don't you think this will make a lot of people mad if you speak here"?

Well, I'd suppose they would have been under certain political and (or) industrial lobbies influence if they were to be considered biased. Good example are the North Korean media.

Lack of mention of tidal power station possibility for electric power on U.S. Coastline and no mention of possibility of priest types selected by election to represent Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from each religion.

Case in point, the Glen Beck rally. Many of the news outlets didn't hint that there were thousands at a rally in Washington. And even fewer called it what it was titled, "Restoring Honor." Instead they called it the Glen Beck Rally.

The left wing journalist (typically mainstream) didn't even address what the rally was about or what they discussed. Instead they argued about the number of people present. Clearly it had at least 100,000 but CBS claimed as low as 78,000. They wanted to make this like they did with the Million Man March, obviously a racist attack back then that they wouldn't dare make today.

However, there was not a lot of news coverage on an event that no one person could amass such a large crowd in Washington on the Democrats side. It was the reason of the event, and not that Beck and Palin had the strength to bring out such large numbers to Washington.

More amazing is that much of the news media "attacked" Beck and not his message. Any college freshman student in journalism 101 knows not to do that and will have that as the first question on the first test. Clearly the MSNBC's, NBC's, ABC's and CBS's of this world are no better than tabloid journalism. They are very frightened that their way of life, iow, their influence is falling on death ears. No longer are people following them like lemmings as though they have the key to what America needs. The truth is, we see them as we always have... they report the news and not make it. When they start making the news, then they are no longer news outlets or journalists but simply puppets of one political group or the other.

For now they are the talking heads of the Democratic Party. They revere the likes of a 70 year old Pelosi and Reid following the agenda of an inexperienced forty year old leader, as though he has some magical experience he gained by knowledge, not experience.

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Another instance... AP... our "trusted" media of truth?

They charged that Beck was borrowing Obama's lines from one of Obama's campaign speeches. Clearly the AP was trying to make it look like Beck couldn't speak for himself, which is nonsense since that is what he does for a living, and very successful doing so.

AP TITLE: Beck Borrows Lines From Obama 2008 Stump Speech During DC Rally

Here is what AP said was the same:

AP quotes Beck -> "One man can change the world," Beck told the crowd. "That man or woman is you. You make the difference."

AP claims Obama-> Obama used to say that one voice could change a room, one room could change a city, and one city could change a state. Obama liked to say that state could change a country and urged supporters to go out and change the world.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/28/beck-obam...

Ironically AP did not "quote" what Obama said, but here is Obama's exact quote:

Obama, December 9, 2007, South Carolina... "One voice can change a room. And if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city. And if it can change a city it can change a state. And if it can change a state, it can change a nation. And if it can change a nation, it can change the world... Your voice can changed the world."

And did Obama steal that quote from anyone? Of course he didn't as he found it from an unknown author written over 100 years before. Most of us may have heard this before and it goes like this:

"When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn't change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn't change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family. Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world." ~Author Unknown

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It's no secret that the media has a liberal agenda. For instance:

It was revealed that the Democratic Party received a total donation of $1,020,816,given by 1,160 employees of the three major broadcast television networks (NBC, CBS, ABC), while the Republican Party received only $142,863 via 193 donations.

That's 10 to 1 for a betting man. For a con artist, used car salesman, it's funny numbers not reflecting the truth.

In the 1986 book, The Media Elite, the authors surveyed journalists at national media outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the broadcast networks. The survey found that most of these journalists were Democratic voters whose attitudes were well to the left of the general public on a variety of topics, including such hot-button social issues as abortion, affirmative action, and gay rights. Then they compared journalists' attitudes to their coverage of controversial issues such as the safety of nuclear power, school busing to promote racial integration, and the energy crisis of the 1970s. The authors concluded that journalists' coverage of controversial issues reflected their own attitudes, and the predominance of political liberals in newsrooms therefore pushed news coverage in a liberal direction.

The most important point of the above wasn't that the journalist were liberal, but whose attitudes were far to the left of the general public to whom they report news.

A shocking admission: ABC News political director Mark Halperin stated that, as individuals, most journalists and news producers hold liberal political views and these views affect their reporting.

In a survey conducted by the American Society of Newspaper Editors in 1997, 61% of reporters stated that they were members of or shared the beliefs of the Democratic Party. Only 15% say their beliefs were best represented by the Republican Party.

A 2002 study by Jim A. Kuypers of Dartmouth College, Press Bias and Politics, investigated the issue of media bias. In this study of 116 mainstream US papers, including The New York Times, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle, Kuypers found that the mainstream press in America tends to favor liberal viewpoints.

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And how about this NY Times Headline

>>"Bomb In Syria Kills Militant Sought As Terrorist"<<

Anyone know what a militant is?

The NY Times headline is talking about Imad Mugniyeh that died in a car bomb.

The NY Times had 25 years how to describe him. For instance he was responsible for, truck bombing of the US Marine barracks in Beirut, hijacking TWA flight 847, blowing up the AMIA building and Israeli embassy, kidnapping Terry Anderson (longest hostage taking in the history of the middle east), murdering William Buckley (C.I.A. station chief in Lebanon), and the Khobar Towers bombing, murdering William Higgins (Lieut. Col. Marine, leading the United Nations observer team in Lebanon).

He was also known as the Founder of Hezbollah.

And ranked second only to Osama bin Laden.... with a $25,000,000.00 price on his head.

AND the Time's headline calls him, "...Militant Sought As Terrorist."