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Originally posted by Bingo@Nov 24 2004, 07:43 PM
You're an angry guy aren't you?
BS?
Yawn?
Stop the whining?
Yikes ... want to meet at the bike racks and settle this thing? 
It is a broadening in my mind, though I guess you can feel free to tell me what I was thinking if you disagree.
Lanny doesn't agree that there's a left lean to the media, and this was a link to a guy within one of those refuted sources admitting it. Period. I didn't make a blanket statement that I've proven the bias exists in all media elite or that I solved the meaning of life.
If that was expected then I think said expectations are a little much.
Beyond that, I've made it clear on this topic numerous times that I don't think the issue is non mainstream media. There are plenty of voices on both sides off the beaten track that really don't have a huge say in what Joe Average is digesting on a daily basis.
That was always my scope ... elite media. Bringing up hate radio just doesn't fit into the mix. If he wants to argue looney extreme media he's picked the wrong guy because I'm not a fan of either side.
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You're so full of crap it isn't even funny. You don't make blanket statements? Bull. You make blanket statements but hide them in a way so that they don't hit you over the head. Just the same way your buddy Cowperson does with his insults. You're an opinionated SOB just like the rest of us and you relish in an opportunity to rub your opinion in the face of those who disagree with you, especially when it is someone of fame supporting your argument, a la Andy Rooney (like he's a credible source of anything). The difference is you like to try and BS people by waving your arms in the air and claiming that others are biased, that others make blanket statements, and you don't. You are fair and balanced. Its a hilarious to watch. You're just like the rest of us except that you carry around a smug holier than thou attitude and love to blow smoke up the readers skirt to appear balanced. And when someone calls you out on it, you come up with a lame "you're an angry guy" type of line to further cloud the issue and attempt to discredit your accuser.
And you don't have a clue about the media down here, you really don't. You claim that the "old media" (CBS, NBC, ABC) are the media elite and that they lean left. That's bull. They are the established media and are considered the benchmark. But when a series of newcomers pop up and are right wing, they make the established media look left leaning. You also display zero understanding of where the average Joe is getting their information. Calling Clear Channel a "fringe" establishment? Wow! They get more listers to many of their programs than the major networks do for their hit shows in prime time. The whole Hate Radio industry, which you like to dismiss as fringe and unimportant, is a massive chunk of Clear Channel's revenue and is a huge seller to the conservative market down here. There is an unbelievable number of people that are begging to be told what to do and how to think, and Clear Channel capitalizes off of that with their talk radio shows. The "old media" can't compete with the new establishment. They are so slow and bogged down in bureacracy that it is impossible to respond to the new establishment. Rathergate was proof of that.
And I laugh my ass off every time you have the gaul to say that FoxNews "leans" right. Jesus, if they were leaning any further right they would be on the left. FoxNews has so many direct connections to the extreme RW establishment it isn't even funny and you say they "lean" right. I guy you could say they lean right if you consider laying flat on your right side a lean.