More Evidence of Mainstream-Media "Liberal Bias"

Sarah Palin and John McCain are making a cottage industry out of claiming that if only the press would stop showing its liberal bias the American people would rally to their campaign. But the evidence keeps piling up that, if bias does exist, it runs the other way. Case in point: The networks have all accepted scads of ads from Chevron, Exxon, and the coal industry around the Presidential debate -- as is their right. But ABC refuses to run a rebuttal ad from Al Gore's WE campaign highlighting how the oil industry and other fossil-fuel interests have misled the American people and stood in the way of clean energy. Take a look and see if you think this is somehow "over the top":

Gore has collected more than 100,000 protests of this censorship, but ABC still hasn't moved. Back in August, NBC did the same thing to a T. Boone Pickens ad pointing out that other countries were using natural gas to power their vehicles while exporting expensive oil to the U.S.

So maybe it's not really conservative bias that characterizes the networks -- maybe they too, like so many politicians, are "Paid for by Big Oil."

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Comments

[LeBeau59741]

I see nothing questionable about the WE spot.
I would support ABC (or any network) if their position were "We're not accepting ANY politically charged advertising during the debates, just straight product endorsements" (I'm afraid I've not phrased that thought well, please bear with me) but that's not the case, and the network has an obligation to simply be the messenger, not to shape the message.

ABC is wrong.

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So why isn't the media covering the Russian press' liberal bias towards Palin and her Alaska Independence Party? Pravda, in a blatantly biased interview with Palin's pal, Lynette Clark, also calls for Mexico taking back California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.

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http://english.pravda.ru/world/americas/104960-0/

[MinuteMan]

ABC seems to be continuing along the path blazed by Murdoch and his Faux News Network. Like McCain, each day they give up a bit more of their credibility and honor.

[larry278]

I mean we have a melt-down which can turn into the mother of all depressions and you worry about the suits at ABC refusing to run one of Al Gore's ads promoting conservation. When ABC has to beg Al to let them run his ad so they can pay the electric bill for operating 1 studio, that will be news.
Bad times could really change TV. Reality shows, game shows, Dr Phil style self-help shows, knock offs of Ophra, the View & Ellen are cheaper than soap operas & revised vaudville shows hosted by big names. We may get re-runs of Jackie Gleason, Leo Carillio, Hop Along Cassidy, Steve Allen. There are sporting events like WWE, Mexican Wrestling, College Baseball, LaCrosse, Hockey for prime time. TV will be changed.

[trinidadgirl]

One can hope that bad times will make tv programmes a little less mindless and have more substance.­.as I said, one can hope!!!