One basic republican dogma is the theory stating that the
American media is ideologically liberal and antithesis to a conservative
message. Currently, this republican “truth” is driving a change in the RNC
debate rules. In order to become a moderator at a republican debate you must
prove you will only vote for a republican in any election.
According to Joe Scarborough, the host for the popular talk
show “Morning Joe”, the liberal MSM is tyrannically ruled by George
Stephanopoulos from ABC. George uses some secret method to command all of the
liberal American journalist, Joe Scarborough revealed this nefarious conspiracy
on November 2, 2015 in a political debate during his show “Morning Joe”. He
provided supporting arguments from Ted Cruz.
I have avoided this debate with conservatives because they
accept the MSM storyline hook, line and sinker. Questioning the dogma is like
trying to tell a fundamental American Christian that the Muslim Allah is the
same as the Christian God, that both religions share the same Abrahamic roots.
Question either dogma and you will be at least vilified or possibly gunned
down.
In my search for unbiased proof for this liberal bias I came
up empty handed. I did find studies by right-wing think tanks that “proved” the
left-wing bias in all media except for a fair and balanced Fox News. Any study
that finds Fox, One America News and Newsmax as unbiased has a measurement
problem. There are studies by PhD’s from Harvard, MIT, University of Texas and
Stanford that found no bias. You can reach your own conclusion about what that
means.
I will propose a different theory about the MSM liberal
bias. It is capitalism at work.
Broadcast and printed media is ruled by ad revenue, all decisions
trace back to the corporate balance sheet. Executives review their income
statement, study the demographics of their potential audience and then issue
their marching orders. Rupert Murdock realized there was money in monopolizing
the 20% of the market that is right-wing, while NBC/CBS/ABC focused on the 70%
that prefers the middle, leaving about 10% for Rachel Maddow. All very honest
capitalist decisions, politics is, at best, incidental.
The right-wing dogma of liberal bias is ultimately self-destructive,
refusing to debate on the Spanish Telemundo cable just alienates the Spanish electorate,
insisting on hard right-wing moderators throwing soft balls just makes the
debate boring. Protecting the candidates from “gotcha” questions will litter
the republican political landscape with weak nominees unprepared for Vladimir
Putin or Angela Merkel, will this candidate complain of liberal bias when the
Turkish president Erdogan calls out American imperialism?
Commitment to the purity of any false dogma shuts off the
pragmatism required for effective governance.
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