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Mainstream media's bias is nowhere close to Rush's bias. If you are honestly suggesting that Rush's bias is comparable to the bias at NBC, ABC etc, you have lost all credibility on this one.
If you are a fair minded and you understand politics you can't tell me what is happening to Palin is not over the top? ABC edited her transcripts to try to make her look bad, they allowed left-wing bloggers to question Palin's son's paternity. Isn't it obvious who's kid it was? MSNBC had to fire staff who were overly biased. The New York Times did so too. What about Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas? What about 90% of the artist community using their celebrity status on TV?
Rush Limbaugh is supplying a demand for news and opinions of a conservative nature. He's not trying to make an ABC. It's the "Rush Limbaugh show for Advanced Conservative studies." He's a pundit. If the major networks were so fair people would feel their opinions were given equal say and Rush would be out of a job. He's popular and wealthy because there is a HUGE demand for what he does. He's not indoctrinating conservatives. Conservatives are rising him up because they get what they need from him. Conservatives don't agree with him on everything, but they at least have a platform to respond to attacks in the other venues.
Certainly immigration and the war were sticking points for his show and he had to ride that one out. The overspending the Republicans were doing was a huge irritant for conservatives and they are trying to go back to the basics with Palin. McCain has also pushed for vetoing bad spending.
This push for Conservative media has been going on for sometime and it's now in the past 10 years showing up more openly. Especially on Fox news.
I know socialists. I've been to university and seen teachers give conservatives low marks simply for their opinions, including myself. They should be marking for knowledge of the subject, not political views. Some left wing professors weren't so bad but that was under threats from parents and students.
Socialists don't like equal opportunity for ideas because they don't believe it. They know that having only one point of view enmasse will convince most people just from saturation. It makes sense they would want to dominate media. Not all people are influenced by it, but the more people are uneducated of the issues the more they will rely on mainstream media as a fast food way of getting their knowledge. People can be misled easily this way. The left knows that and is ruthless with it.
It would be nice to have an unbiased media but the left and the right have different views on the world and it shows in their priorities. These priorities conflict and lead to confrontation and defensiveness. This leads to left wing media vs. right wing media. I don't see this changing at all. With jobs we can't always keep up to date so reporters end up with that task. It's up to us to weigh both sides and then make a decision. By all means look at other points of view. I did. In fact it will help you make your decisions easier. Especially if you read classic books on economics, politics, history, and philosophy. If your education is better than media people you can see bias even easier and sometimes guess what people will say next.