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My question is, does anyone really watch these things? What kind of ratings do they get? My impression (and I could be very wrong) is that the Sunday shows are on at a time when most people are busy with their lives, yet for some reason these blowhards get to set the tone of political discussion in this country and no one challenges it. What gives?

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Ummm I think you mistyped somewhere in your story. The story does not makes sense. The study showed Sunday shows have more conservative guests than liberal yet NBC disagrees with the study pointing out during the Clinton adminstration, they had more conservative guests than liberal guests?

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These shows are quickly becoming irrelevant, so does it really matter? I vote for the spider monkeys; they're not quite as full of themselves.

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I wouldn't call them irrelevant. While a lot of America doesn't watch them they are one of the few places that long form interviews are done on a regular basis.

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I hit send a little quick. As far as the study in concerned, it matters little whether the guests are liberal or conservitive. What matters is how they are questioned by the interviewers.

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When you bitch and complain about the so called "liberal media bias" as long as Conservatives & Republicans have, you tend to get the general public to agree with you more and more. Then you point to that belief by the general public in that falsehood as if it is true. Were all the Conservatives living under a rock during President Clinton's second term? Would you call all the reporting during that time as "liberal media bias"?

Bill Kristol: "I admit it," he told a reporter being interviewed in 1995 by the New Yorker. "The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures."

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I think what really plays in the media, is that they consider themselves the protector of the helpless and ignorent. And since these people tend to be democratic, it is seen as a media bias toward the liberal and democratic establishment.

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I don't see how the media is "liberally-biased" as so many "conservatives" have argued.

I'm a Republican myself, but I fail to see how the news media is unfair and unbalanced.

If anything, I notice how fair and balanced Fox News is about giving news and it's more biased than any other news show that I have seen.

Incidentally, I personally believe that news shows should be UNBIASED because I want to hear FACTS NOT opinions about news.

If I wanted to hear about opinions, then I would ask for them myself from my fellow peers.

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MediaMatters is staffed by rabid partisans under the thumb and purse strings of George Soros. They're not in any way to be trusted to be fair about *anything* political.

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JimK, you have similar partisan organizations like that on the Right. The Family Research Council, NewsBusters a project of the Media Research Center & Parents Television Council these three are headed by Brent Bozell.

Last July, the FCC received 23,547 complaints, 23,542 of them were from were from the PTC. So let's get this straight, 5 complaints from everyone else in the country, and the rest 23,542 from the PTC. How convenient..

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"JimK, you have similar partisan organizations like that on the Right. The Family Research Council, NewsBusters a project of the Media Research Center

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