Is it truly possible to have a non-biased media?

@SmartKat Reagan's deregulation policies are often the root cause of what actually ails America.

@room101 Very true. And they [b]have[/b] directly and indirectly affected several areas of life in the U.S.

@SmartKat @room101

Reagan “stole the fairness doctrine”? Surely you jest.

At that time kind of like now the left controlled the majority of the media and presented the majority of the opinion (its own not Reagan’s).

The left still controls the majority of ownership and presented opinion today. Does the ridiculous fox news frighten you?

Why don’t you take another try at staying on topic?

@jackjjackson We are on topic. The deregulation on monopolies led to a nation as vast as America only having six media companies.

@room101

Fair enough

Please name them and identify the bias of each.

@jackjjackson Reagan was in office between 1981 and 1989. In 1983, you had 50 media companies. Now you have [b]SIX.[/b]

These are: GE, News-Corp, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner and, CBS.

The issue is not where the bias is (unless, of course, it's something that you don't agree with), it's that [b]there is an institutionalised bias.[/b]

@room101

You’re deliberately obfuscating. With one exception they have a left bias. You omitted Comcast and a few others. Disney is part of the Comcast empire.

@jackjjackson Nope. No obfuscating going on here. Simply sticking to the topic being discussed ie bias in the media. You, on the other hand, wants to make this into a left vs. right thing.

I see an abusive meme brewing.

Oh and by the way, Comcast is owned by GE. Disney is owned by Disney.

@room101

You use the term institutional bias. What do you mean by that?

@room101

Wrong GE and Comcast joint venture in NBC and a few others.

@room101

Oh if a meme appears it is simply an easy shorthand description of the merit or lack thereof of whatever you choose to write.

@jackjjackson the term I used is "institutionalised bias". It's what you accuse the media of participating in every time they criticize the right.

As to who owns what:

http://uk.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6

@room101

Correct. Companies like people have political biases.

@room101

After correcting the obvious error we are faced with 7 biases, 6 left, 1 right.

Was there are different balance when there were 300 biases?

@jackjjackson There you go again with your left vs. right agenda. Is it so difficult for you to understand that the topic of this discussion is bias, [b]NOT[/b] where it aligns.

@room101

Aren’t the two inexorably intertwined. Political bias is by far the biggest issue today. Historically there has been racial and sexual bias perhaps age bias. However today it’s by far political bias. If you refuse to acknowledge that you’re obfuscating and have some other agenda.

@jackjjackson
Q. Has anybody in this discussion, myself included, refused to acknowledge that political bias in the media exists?

A. No. Not even a little bit.

But let's play your silly little left vs. right game. Have you ever paused and asked yourself why so much of the serious media aligns itself with more liberal ideologies. It's because serious journalists are intelligent human beings. The far right, on the other hand, are as thick as two short planks. And those that buy into their crap are even dumber.

@room101

So you finally outed yourself. Got tired of being caught obfuscating. One Mrs Clinton also thought she was the smartest person in the room. Didn’t work out for her and my suspicious is with your elitist attitude things aren’t working out for you either. So you resort to name calling and insults.

“Serious media” lol. Don’t you wish 😮

@jackjjackson What are you talking about you pathetic little fool. If you actually participated in debates on SW, instead of just posting abusive and mindless memes, you would know what my political leanings are. We've crossed paths many times before. I've outed myself? You're a joke. And not a particularly funny one at that.

You got totally roasted on here a few days ago,

https://similarworlds.com/18-Politics/1219139-So-Jackjjacksonjr-is-trying-to-convince-me-that

and now you try to actually discuss something. Sadly, however, everything you say is driven by your obsessions.

Stick to your memes idiot. You don't have the intellect to participate in serious discussions.

@room101

Look in the mirror name caller. You’re right. I should have memed you and been done with it lol.

@jackjjackson Let’s just stop the pretence shall we. You don’t care that there is political bias in the media, you care that it’s largely directed at your orange overlord and far right Conservatives. You have the audacity to enter into a discussion about bias and pretty much all you have done is try to push your left vs. right squabble.

SmartKat, bijoux and I criticize Reagan and you start jumping up and down like a demented Zebedee doll. Twice, you tried to introduce Dan Rather into the debate. Why? Because he presented a piece which tried to explain the gap in the military record of Bush Jnr. Guaranteed, had he presented exactly the same piece, with exactly the same consequences, about Bill Clinton, you would be hailing him as a martyr.

Give it up pal, we all see right through you.

@room101

Wrong. I correctly pointed out the left leaning media bias dating back to at least Dan Rather. The only pretense is that you wish to discuss anything and only seek to ram your agenda down the throats of all. You have no clue who I’ve ever voted for and typical of your ilk make assumptions and then begin with the name calling and insults. When called on it you get angry and crank up the name calling and mean spirited behavior. You’re deliberately blind and deaf to anything other than your ill conceived agenda.

@jackjjackson I've been seeing you pop up for ten months. Always with the same nonsense. Tells me all that I need to know.

@room101

Ditto regarding your nonsense however I have no clue how long you’ve been around and don’t care.