Fox News ratings went down by 17% in October, while most cable news networks saw tremendous increases in ratings. I guess people are finally growing tired of their ridiculous bias and gossip. Basically, there is no liberal media, there only is only intelligent media and ridiculous media. Oh, and hey, Rupert, how did the OJ interview help your ratings?
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"... there is no liberal media, there only is only intelligent media and ridiculous media..."
I'm going to call BS on the first half of that statement. There may in fact be no liberal media with the organized efficiency of Fox's pandering to its nationalist/republican viewers, but to say that TV News organizations that tend towards supporting a democratic viewpoint aren't equally sheep seems inaccurate.
Not much substance to be seen these days on TV network news.
Book & interview both cancelled! Film at 11.
I think some media definitely have liberal leanings but they at least try to represent both sides. The conservative media has no qualms about inaccurcy and one-sidedness.
There are few, if any, liberal media. Certainly none in mainstream circulation. Consider that every daily newspaper in the nation has a business and finance section, but none has a labor section. Consider that of the paid "consultants" who appear on nightly news, especially for economics, there is no Keynesian, let alone a Marxist, while most of the world takes both views quite seriously and plans their national futures based on such-informed views.
Nutcase right-wing commentators -- Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, and others -- get wide circulation. The best left-wing commentators are rare, and the nutcases don't even get published.
Show me the collective-owned newspaper that has a circulation over a half-million, or the major-market collectively-owned network affiliate, and we can point to a toe-hold for liberal media. But until that time, understand that there are NO liberal media outlets of any note in America.
Now, what passes for "liberal" among the radical right-wing is anyone or anything that smacks of real information, education, or erudition. Consequently, any newspaper that regularly reviews books is regarded as "liberal" by the right wing.
It is ignorance they prefer (a stupid peasantry doesn't know when to take up arms, making dictatorship easier), and learning they eschew. Anything learned, even learned conservative, they brand as "liberal" and distasteful. William F. Buckley is a traitor to much of the right wing -- he not only can read, he DOES read . . .