News Bias, heh.

[kajarainbow]

Proof that the news aren't left-biased or right-biased but in fact money-biased:

An ad on the back of my local newspaper, promising a news section on a local television news show about... "HOW YOU CAN GET REAL DESIGNER HANDBAGS AT 90% OFF."

I kid you not. On "Connecticut's News Leader," a story about how to buy overpriced handbags for less. I wonder how much they got paid to shill those handbags. Or is it just an implict agreement between companies trying to uphold the same vision of reality itself in which cheap designer handbags is a newsworthy item and consumer goods are one of the supreme all-important virtues?

Feh.

This came after a marathon reading of some issues of Grant Morrison's The Invisibles comic that I downloaded. I think you can imagine the sort of effect this ad had on me after reading that.

Comments

[alfador-fox.livejournal.com]

The media is politically biased in whichever direction serves to get them more money. That is the extent of their political bias.

[kajarainbow.livejournal.com]

Like I said, money-biased.

[alfador-fox.livejournal.com]

Right, err, what I was trying (and failing) to say is that, as you said, the media is money-biased...but you also said that they are not left-biased or right-biased. When they usually ARE, just whichever of the two will get them more viewers == more advertising dollars.

Oh...forget it. Basically I was agreeing, and trying to point out something that was obvious from your post. Agh. That's me, trying to overexplain things...