Reply #10: I Agree (sort of) [View All]

The news media is liberal. By and large the media will report both sides of most issues.

Most Americans felt (and still feel) the media should support the country in a time of war. When the media showed our bad side in the Vietnam War, this outraged most Americans. This is what they meant by the media being "too liberal".

Since then the message has simply been obfuscated. So remind people when they complain about the media being too liberal that what they are saying is "the media is giving both sides of the issues" and ask them why (outside of reporting on US military actions) they consider this a "bad" thing.


During the American-Iraqi War, of course, the US media was anything but liberal. You might want to remind them of that as well and ask them if they want the media controlled by big government even in peacetime.