usedtobefast said:
Fox is a mouthpiece for the Republican party. nothing like it on the left at all.
The media was pretty behind Obama in 2008. Especially MSNBC. Sure they arent as anywhere near as stupid, nor is their coverage as cringeworthy , but they are, or at least were very biased to the guy they wanted to win in 08.
Take MSNBC, during the election 2 of their reporters got SUSPENDED for making crass jokes about Hilaries daughter.
Then at the Gop convention, the networks ****ing election TEAM, got demoted for sarcastically apologising to the viewers for having to watch one of the Republican videos. That election team was Chris Matthews - who tried to run as a senator for the Democrats, Olbermannm a left wing O reilly , who has even been put down by sympathiser John Stewart for absurd attacks on Chris Christie (those in the US can see the put down here) and Rachel Maddow, another Obama lover with a loud voice. Those 3 individuals, were the hosts of Hardball, Countdown and the Rachell Maddow show, the 3 big daily shows on the channel.
And it makes sence that the media is generally in favour of democrats. There have been studies into news networks here in the UK and they find that 80% of people working at the bbc for example is left wing.
Why? Because the people they employ fit your Democrat (in the US) demographic well. From the inner city (Democrats get most of their support from the inner cities, winning Washington DC for example 90-10 and carrying New york city usually 80-20) young people under 35 ( everyone knows they vote Democrat in their droves) and well educated (again a democrat base).
And all these people were especially enchanted by a young black candidate who promised to save the world.
There were many many little things for example that Saturday night live thing where they took the **** out of Hillary for many weeks and MCcain and didnt dare to touch Obama, until after lots of Hillary and Republican supporters complained, they made a little sketch about Obama.
In fact some of the people not in love with Obama began to make surveys about how many times late night comedians make jokes about Bush, Mccain, Hillary and Obama, and Obama wasnt getting a 10th of the jokes as the others because late night comedians didnt want to touch him.
There were also polls by Rasmussen- though I dont find these things reliable and i certainatly dont like them, where people were asked who the media has favoured and 55% said Obama, while 14% said Mccain
The news anchors themselves. I mean does anyone seriously believe Tom Browkaw would vote for Mccain Palin.
Also I remember Republicans getting pretty outraged that some networks, tried to ignore the Reverend Wright story for about 2 days after it "broke". MSNBC especially, who obviously didnt like a srtory that showed bad on their guy.
And Obama from the newspapers recieved way way way more endorsements than Mccain. I mean these guys are the ones writing the news and at the same time they are urging you to vote for a particular candidate.
I have no idea how it is now, I havent payed attention to US politics since 09 other than the 2010 mid terms which made me puke, but I know that in 2008, the vast majority of the media was behind Obama.
ANd perhaps most importantly, the left in the US has Hollywood. I think about half the stars from the movie business made the effort to organise press conferences to "endorse" Obama. Many of them in tears. They even did that little "yes we can" video where a bunch of them say those 3 words sheepishly into the camera.
And many of the hollywood films do come out left leaning.
More so in recent years. There have of course been many Conservative films, probably most of them before 2000, like Forrest Gump or the ones where US saves the world, or stupid ones like Enigma code where they say US cracked the code (it was Polish codebreakers ill have you know).
But in recent years, TV and movies have been all over the democrat messages.
The Simposns has episodes where the republican party meets in a Dracula castle, has an episode where Homer risks his life to stop some megafraud GOP ekection scam, has an episode where Simposns are sent to a the "ronald reagan detention facility" for accidentally mooning the US flag, plastered many episodes with "jokes" about how the 2004 election was allegedly rigged with some out of this world machine scam, (eg Homer tries to vote for Obama, but the machine instread votes for Mccain ,and when Homer complains the machine kills him). This conspiracy theory, was btw spread most strongly by Hollywood actors, including I remember during the 2004 election, on the post election Bill Maher show, that one from Thelma and Louise coming on and saying how she was going to fight the injustice of this stolen election.
Bill Maher btw is an example of a voice on the left. There are many shows like his too.
These mediums, Hollywoo, tv are watched by millions of people so yes the left in america does have a strong voice too.