Media Bias? What Media Bias?
13th February 2012
“In ‘08 it became pretty apparent MSNBC was going left,” says one source. “They were using our research to write their stories. They were eager to use our stuff.” Media Matters staff had the direct line of MSNBC president Phil Griffin, and used it. Griffin took their calls.
Stories about Fox News were especially well received by MSNBC anchors and executives: “If we published something about Fox in the morning, they’d have it on the air that night verbatim.”
But MSNBC executives weren’t the only ones talking regularly to Media Matters.
“The entire progressive blogosphere picked up our stuff,” says a Media Matters source, “from Daily Kos to Salon. Greg Sargent [of the Washington Post] will write anything you give him. He was the go-to guy to leak stuff.”
“If you can’t get it anywhere else, Greg Sargent’s always game,” agreed another source with firsthand knowledge.
February 13th, 2012 at 12:08
I don’t mind them being biased; I mind them pretending to not be biased.
February 13th, 2012 at 22:02
All media is biased. Always has been. Always will be.
As for ‘pretending not to be biased’, Fox is the worst. “Fair and Balanced”? Right. Far right.
Since Murdoch owns have the news outlets in the world, it’s time all you Poor Downtrodden Conservatives stop whining. This should have been posted in Whose Turn Is It To Be The Victim?
February 14th, 2012 at 11:21
“All media is biased. Always has been. Always will be.”
Wow Dennis. You made my day. You are the first liberal I’ve ever heard say this about any channel except Fox. Conservatives have always known and admitted it. Why until Fox came along bias was a like Harvey the rabbit. Only conservatives saw it.
February 14th, 2012 at 14:14
Sorry, Whitehawk, but I call ‘bullshit’.
Newspapers going back to the beginning of the printing press have always had a political bias as expressed in their editorial pages–and in the case of Hearst and Murdoch, in what and how they report as ‘news’. This is nothing new under the sun; it’s just updated for the electronic age.
Any thinking person knows this. There should be no need to belabor the obvious.