The media isn't liberal

To quote Eric Alterman's "What Liberal Media?" "Given the success of Fox news, The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, New York Post, American Spectator, Weekly Standard, New York Sun, National Review, Commentary and so on, no sensible person can dispute the existance of the ‘conservative' media." Another quote I found: Years ago, Republican party chair Rich Bond explained that conservatives' frequent denunciations of "liberal bias" in the media were part of "a strategy" (Washington Post, 8/20/92). As mentioned above, there is a liberal media and there is a conservative media and some in between. But I stick by my quote "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." The legend of the liberal media as become in everyone's mind a fact. The news outlets in order to counter this have sacrificed un-biased views with conservative ones. New York magazine hired Tucker Carlson as its only national correspondent, The New Yorker hired for its two Washington correspondents Michael Kelly and Joe Klein, the Clinton hater and the neo con, respectively. Even so called bastions of liberalism have conservative writers for them. The New Republic's editor was once Michael Kelly, and The Nation allowed Christopher Hitchens and Alexander Cockburn write articles for them. Vanity Fair recently published a scathing article on Bill Clinton. How about the biggest "liberal media" outlet of them all, the New York Times. To remind everyone of your quote "We're not very subtle about it at this paper: If you work here, you must be one of us" from a reporter of the Washington Post which isn't as big an enemy to the conservative media, The New York Times features articles from the Nixonite William Starfire, Bill Keller, Howell Raines one of Bill Clinton's biggest critics, Bill Stein who recently directed a movie (Expelled I think) which was done so poorly that it persuaded no one to its anti-science position and was considered by some as satire because it was so bad. But what about what America thinks, a Gallup poll in September 2002 showed 47% of Americans believed the media was too liberal (a smaller percentage than those who voted for Bush Jr.), 13% believed the media was conservative, and 40% said it was balanced. That means the majority doesn't believe that it is liberal. Second, I hate when they say Fox is "Fair and Balanced." No one can name names of liberal reporters or correspondents on Fox like one could name conservatives at the New York Times as I did above. Fox news even admits they have a bias. Here is what Norvell fessed up to in the May 20 Wall Street Journal Europe: Even we at Fox News manage to get some lefties on the air occasionally, and often let them finish their sentences before we club them to death and feed the scraps to Karl Rove and Bill O'Reilly. And those who hate us can take solace in the fact that they aren't subsidizing Bill's bombast; we payers of the BBC license fee don't enjoy that peace of mind. Fox News is, after all, a private channel and our presenters are quite open about where they stand on particular stories. That's our appeal. People watch us because they know what they are getting. The Beeb's institutionalized leftism would be easier to tolerate if the corporation was a little more honest about it. Source: http://www.slate.com... About Faux's reporting, just follow this link. http://thinkprogress.org... This is a study by the Pew Research Center showing Fox news as having the second worst in terms in knowledgeable viewers. Maybe because they believe Saddam still had WMDs, or that Obama is a Muslim. After all, how did the media get the label "liberal" without a conservative media to label it as such? To finish, my opponent argues my points but doesn't extend any of his. Therefore, I find it debatable as to whether CON has a case. But for now, I rest mine.