Tomorrow is Media Bias Sunday! Or as I like to call it, Librul Media My Ass Sunday. Previously I kept a running tally of all things unfair, unbalanced for years via the infamous TPC Media Bias Sunday Talk scoreboard. Now the series is a regular feature at Radio Or Not.
No matter who’s in the White House or runs Congress, the corporate media nearly always has more GOP guests appearing on Sunday talk shows than Democratic guests, many of them to the right of right. Tea party right. Carly Fiorina “Planned Parenthood ate your babies” right.
This week there were Democratic and Republican primaries. Doesn’t matter, because who still dominates the guest lists on Sunday? Republicans.
Time to take a sneak preview of what’s coming up on the Big Media Bias Sunday Talker Line-Up per the Los Angeles Times… okay? Okay.
This is not a complete list of political guests and is subject to change at the whim of the Corporate Media. I try not to include panels, because they usually include mostly Republicans, and if there are “Democrats,” they’re about as “liberal” as, well, Harold Ford.
And as you may have noticed, Fox is not included, because, well come on, what’s the point?
ABC’s “This Week” — Gov. John Kasich (R); Sen. Mitch McConnell (R); White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough (D); Reince Priebus (R).
CBS’ “Face the Nation” — Sen. Bernie Sanders (D); Gov. John Kasich (R); Sen. Lindsey Graham (R); Frank Luntz (R).
CNN’s “State of the Union” —Gov. John Kasich (R); Sen. Mitch McConnell (R); Reince Priebus (R).
NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Gov. John Kasich (R); Sen. Mitch McConnell (R); Sen. Harry Reid (D); Steve Schmidt (R); Stuart Stevens (R).
It’s time to do the math:
Red Rs + Red Rs, carry the pi, divided by D, times Bias, minus even-handedness… calculating…
Total: 13 Rs, 3 Ds. Please feel free to check the addition and political affiliations.
There it is: Your librul media at work.
And yet again nary a single Hillary Rep.
Laddie, on MSNBC Hillary is overrepresented. Every paid Dem analyst is a Hillary surrogate, as are some of the hosts. Number of paid, regular contributors that are Bernie surrogates? Zero.
The number of ways she’s represented far outnumbers Bernie’s representation. This has been documented by others. Had she wanted someone on the Sunday shows, they would have been on. They often are.
And if you link over to see who the panelists are (vs. guests), a few are Hillary supporters, no Bernie supporters.
This is why there is a #BernieBlackout hashtag.
As I have said before, I listen to every one of the Sunday shows in my car during the week. Hillary or someone speaking for Hillary had not been on any of these shows (oops, I don’t listen to MSNBC) in at least 6-8 weeks.
And you’re right, the reason that she’s not on is that she doesn’t want to be on. No reason for her to say something that she might regret later.
Your premise is absolutely spot on. She may say something she might regret so perhaps that’s why she stays away. Bernie’s on nearly weekly, sometimes on two shows on any given Sunday. I guess he’s not worried.
However, the point of my Media Bias Sunday posts isn’t about Hillary vs Bernie surrogates. It’s about GOP guests vs. Dem guests. GOP wins nearly every week.
As for panelists, I explain in the post that I don’t count those, only the political guests who are interviewed.
Only through two shows so far but from the political circus the D’s outnumber the R’s on CNN and CBS. Do you count when they have someone in like the chair of the Senate Homeland Security committee to discuss stuff like Brussels? Not really representing the party but in a position of knowledge to bring to the story, no?
As I’ve said to you before, a simple count misses the point. Sanders was the “lead” candidate on CNN this past week, he got a huge amount of air time compared to others. Then they had the R- homeland guy on and all they talked bout was brussels. A 1-1 scorecard there would really misrepresent what was really said, no?
Just click on my links to my posts over the years. They favor GOP guests by far, as one chart I included a few weeks ago shows. I’m not the only one documenting this. Many others have come to the same conclusion, so I’m not sure where you see that “D’s outnumber the R’s” as a whole. I break it all down very clearly.
A “simple count” MAKES the point. If 80% of the time (not an accurate number, but close enough) you have more Republicans on than Dems, then they get more air time overall. For every time a Dem like Sanders takes the spotlight, you have two GOP candidates doing the same, or one every week with no Dem, or something similar. I’m not exactly making this up. Here’s just one article that makes the point: http://mediamatters.org/research/2014/01/31/report-ideology-and-partisanship-on-the-2013-br/197861
As for DHS etc, depends on whether I can find a party affiliation. I try to include them, but often no affiliation is listed anywhere.
When SCOTUS made corps (media inclded) people,we,or at least I,knew that they’d be THE propaganda outlets for the candidates best suited to what their agenda is. We can’t think with a clear head to make monumental decisions political any more. I just had to turn it off & think for myself.
So let me ask you a serious question
This weekend on This Nation, there are three guests. Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and John Kasich. According to your count, the R’s get 2, the D’s get one
The lead is Sanders, the host George Todd asks Sanders “why are the Republicans such assholes”, to which he says “it’s in the blood”. The next guest is John Kasich, and the host says “why are your candidates such assholes” and Mr. Kasich says “hey, we’re not assholes, you just don’t understand us”. the final guest is Mr. Trump, and he is asked the same question. his answer is “we’re not the assholes, you are the assholes and we’re kicking your ass”
But the media is biased because they had 2 R’s and 1 D?
That response was so laughable and showed such little regard for facts, documentation, and accuracy that I finally realized! You’re either a parody account or a troll, neither of which is worthy of any further “serious” discussion.
So we’ll agree to disagree, but for you to use a simple count and entirely dismiss the content and the opinions put forth in these shows is not taking the issue of media bias seriously.
thanks for the sparring, see you in another thread some day
Actually, no you won’t. I really don’t like “sparring,” nor is that what we’re here for.
By the way, looking at your comment below, when you said “political circus,” was that intended to be The Political Carnival where my post links to… my former home site?
Anyway, don’t bother trying to pick another fight without merit. That just proves my point about trolling. You failed to make your points convincingly and you might want to go spar with someone who is willing, at another site. Done here.
no, I meant the circus that is now the election cycle, especially the idiots on the republican side.
Got it, thanks.