Thursday, June 23, 2011

Rasmussen Reports found that voters think most reporters are liberal and try to help candidates they favor

Funny how most of the commenters don't see this at all. I suggest that
therefore they must be blind.

Survey: Voters think most reporters are liberal, try to help
candidates they favor

Jim Romenesko by Jim Romenesko
<http://www.poynter.org/author/jromeneskopoynter-org/> *Published* June
23, 2011 8:46 am *Updated* June 23, 2011 9:06 am

/*Rasmussen Reports*/
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Rasmussen Reports, in a telephone survey conducted earlier this week,
found that male voters are more skeptical than women voters of
reporters' integrity and also feel more strongly that the average
reporter is more liberal than they are. Younger voters are less likely
then their elders to think reporters are more liberal. More findings:

* 67 percent of likely voters believe that most reporters, when covering
a politician campaign, try to help the candidate they want to win; 21
percent think most reporters put the emphasis instead on trying to offer
unbiased coverage. Twelve percent aren't sure.

* 48 percent believe that most reporters would hide any damaging
information they learned to help the candidate they wanted to win.
Twenty-nine percent disagree and 23 percent aren't sure.

* 46 percent of voters feel that the average reporter is more liberal
than they are. Eighteen percent say the average reporter is more
conservative than they are, while 22 percent think their views are about
the same. Fourteen percent are undecided.

* 78 percent of political conservatives think the average reporter is
more liberal than they are. Among liberals, 38 percent think the average
reporter is more conservative than they are, while 31 percent believe
their views are about the same.

The Washington Post's Jason Horowitz wrote about the Rasmussen Reports
founder
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/16/AR2010061605090.html>
last June:

A co-founder of the sports network ESPN and former play-by-play
broadcaster, Scott Rasmussen is an articulate and frequent guest on
Fox News and other outlets, where his nominally nonpartisan data is
often cited to support Republican talking points. In October, he
hired his own communications director to handle the daily deluge of
press calls.


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You obviously have not been paying much attention to the news
lately. When you have the MSM covering the vacation of Sarah Palin
the way they have, including paparazzi-style chasing of her van,
and you have the assignment of reporters to the emails released by
the state of Alaska, then it is obvious that the MSM is slanted.
Add to that the almost total lack of investigation of the
background of the president going back to when he first started
running for the office and still ongoing. In addition add the
reporting on Bush during the 2004 election by the major networks
which backfired thanks to the bloggers who followed up and proved
that it was all a lie. The public has seen the results of
reporting when they have been interviewed and then find that what
is reported has almost nothing in common with what went on in the
interview. The result is that the public has seen the bias for
themselves to the point that lately the profession of journalism
is ranked on about the same level as that of bad used car salesmen
and ambulance chasing lawyers and pitchmen on TV.
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Worth noting that Rasmussen conducts automated phone polling and
doesn't appear to have provided respondents any definition of
"reporter." Without one, I'd contend the poll is basically
worthless because you have no idea who or what those responding
considered to be a reporter, though it's highly likely their
conception goes far beyond that of conventional journalism
reporters to include commentators, TV show hosts, bloggers, etc.
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Steeped as they are in an ideological monoculture, of course
journalists are incapable of recognizing their own cultural and
political biases. Isn't it long past time the profession opened
itself up to true "diversity?"

Consistently and systematically ignoring, or showing open
contempt, for the values, experiences and lifestyles of more than
half your potential market is not exactly a viable business model
for an industry in decline.
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Never spent five minutes in a newsroom, have you?
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Q.E.D.

In fact, I spent seven years as an Air Force PIO in the 1970s
interacting with media types who clearly regarded me and the
institution I represented with naked contempt.

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LMAO - and you accuse others of monoculture? The only group more
hidebound and pig-headed than the post-Vietnam military reporters
was the post-Vietnam military staffers, especially PAOs.

How do I know? Been on both sides for decades, including most of
the '70s and early '80 on active duty, a couple more decades in
the Reserves and almost 30 years as a military reporter, editor
and - for a few years now - in a PAO shop myself.
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I agree, Rod -- except for that bit about being hard on polls they
like. A very small minority of reporters go after pols they DON'T
like, thus helping the candidates they prefer. I have seen this
happen but it is rare and not tolerated when found out. Newsrooms
are also no doubt plurality liberal, with independent/no opinion
coming in 2nd. I'd say libertarians and conservatives like me
account for no more than 8 or 10 percent of the newsroom staffs of
the nation.
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I think overall, your percentage of non-liberals is too low - when
you take into account smaller metros and mid-sized and smaller
dailies, etc. Philosopihcal (as opposed to party type)
libertarians probably outnumber conservatives by a wide margin.

Most reporters quickly become cynical about government and
politicians and their ability to do anything positive, regardless
of their political leanings coming into the business.

And certainly the majority of "fly over country" markets have
decidedly conservative, pro-business editorial stances.

These kinds of polls are skewed by the perceptions of the few Big
papers - and even more so, TV news.
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Not surprising, but largely off-base. Over a couple decades
reporting and editing, my experience has been that reporters tend
to be harder on politicians they like, especially if they uncover
any kind of damaging information.

And with very rare exceptions, a front page scoop trumps political
leanings - right, left or otherwise.
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Government Seizes Control of Energy Reporting

More commie takeover.







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Government Seizes Control of Energy Reporting

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The Day Freedom Dies -

Harlingen, Texas, June 21, 2011: It was 38 years ago that a group of journalist acquaintances gathered in my Manila, Philippines hotel room to tell me about the arrest of another friend who had written with disfavor about the Marcos government. They were not even allowed to visit or correspond with him in any way. These writers also showed me how newspapers and television presented events in their country that was living under martial law. Nothing reflecting disfavor of the government could be printed or voiced.

Now we fast forward to this morning's newspaper in the Lone Star State;

The lead editorial reports on this week's comments by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. He has stated the Obama Administration will no longer allow industry related groups to fund or publish safety-related studies on offshore drilling and pipelines.   The rationale behind such action is explained by saying that most of these studies are viewed skeptically because of ties to the oil industry. What LaHood does not say is industry studies are usually overly careful in their examination of such matters because they know the studies will be viewed with a jaundiced eye. 

Most other safety related pipeline or environmental reports and studies have originated with the federal government or from restriction and regulation oriented environmental appointees. Those who accept the findings of these government-funded studies, but reject those industry-backed efforts must be among the most naive people on the planet.   Each of these groups has a specific agenda. However, the industry studies and reports are presented knowing the full power of the federal government will call them into question, thus they are very studious about getting everything very detailed and correct to a fault. 

But none of this is really new. Most people know the federal government tries to bully its way through just about any contentious issue. What was scary about the LaHood comments is, if he is to be believed – even efforts of the industry or the media to verify the accuracy of government reports will become illegal. This would make it next to impossible for the oil industry to gather information or verify the accuracy of anything in a government report. 

American citizens are very familiar with how the government will cherry-pick bits of information to prove its assumptions, while at the same time completely ignore any material that might weaken the case it is attempting to sell the general public. If it becomes illegal to examine that same material and report the findings in print or electronically, we have reached the point where we have the beginning of government censorship. It could be argued that this would be only step one leading to total censorship of any matter deemed to be in the government interest. 

We have already witnessed the restrictions on information that originated with the laws enacted following the terrorist attacks on that fateful day of 9-11-01. We see more stonewalling in the months to years it takes to pry loose government documents under the Freedom of Information Act. If the comments of Secretary LaHood prove to be valid, this is another step on the road to establishing an authoritarian government that stifles all disscent and we could all soon be witness to the day freedom dies.

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Fun and games by the Dems in Calfornia - and they are yelling like stuck pigs about it - they did it to themselves

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Dan Morain: Democrats dug their own hole with Prop. 25

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By Dan Morain, Senior editor
dmorain@sacbee.com <mailto:dmorain@sacbee.com> The Sacramento Bee
Published: Thursday, Jun. 23, 2011 - 12:00 am | Page 11A

Democratic legislators undoubtedly have found a new place to cut
spending – the department overseen by the previously obscure Controller
John Chiang. <http://topics.sacbee.com/John+Chiang/>

Chiang, responsible for signing state checks, made a name for himself by
declaring that the budget approved last week is out of whack and that he
would not be paying legislators.

Legislators quickly denounced him for grandstanding. He blatantly
breached the separation of powers, they said, and created a
constitutional crisis. His power grab is not grounded in the law, they
said.

It may all be true. And they have no one but themselves to blame.

Democrats and their organized labor allies wholeheartedly embraced
Proposition 25, the too-cute-by-half initiative approved last November
that granted legislators the power to approve budgets by a simple
majority vote.

Like so many other initiatives, Proposition 25 was poll-tested, slickly
packaged and sold to the electorate like soda pop.
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Its goal was to give Democrats power to approve annual state budgets by
a simple majority, without Republican votes. But to win at the polls,
Proposition 25 needed a sweetener. Promoters added a provision saying
legislators would forfeit their pay if they failed to approve a budget
by the June 15 state constitutional deadline.

All initiatives are loaded. Most voters can only guess at their
long-term consequences. In this instance, however, professional
politicians didn't seem to fully appreciate the implications, though the
opening paragraph of the argument in favor of Proposition 25 in the
official voter pamphlet offered voters a clear summation of its intent:

"Prop. 25 reforms California's badly broken state budget process, so
taxpayers, schools and services are protected, while legislators are
held accountable if they fail to pass the budget on time. No budget, no
pay – and no payback later."

Armed with the ability to approve the budget without Republican votes,
Democrats quickly wrapped up budget votes on June 15, like kids rushing
through their math homework.

They seemed surprised when Gov. Jerry Brown quickly vetoed the budget.
They were truly dismayed when fellow Democrat Chiang invoked Proposition
25 – along with a previously ignored 2004 initiative that requires a
balanced budget – to cut their pay.

"Voters wanted to put a stop to all the games and all the shenanigans,"
said Ray McNally, the consultant who took the lead role in favor of
Proposition 25. "The controller recognized that. He is doing that what
people wanted done."

Not everyone in McNally's coalition agrees.

"It's a misuse of Proposition 25 and a misuse of the state controller's
office," said Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, who donated $25,000 to the
Yes-on-25 campaign.

Chiang told me he is "open to the possibility of being sued" but warned
that legislators who sue "do so at their peril."

"Voters may come back with harsher terms," Chiang said. "They may say
'part-time Legislature.' "

Chiang won't be getting flowers from many legislators. But he is not
isolated. Brown has been willing to help cut legislators' pay. As
attorney general in 2009, Brown issued an opinion that the Citizens
Compensation Commission had the power to reduce legislators' pay.

Brown was interpreting a series of ballot measures,
<http://topics.sacbee.com/ballot+measures/> including a Trojan horse,
<http://topics.sacbee.com/Trojan+horse/> Proposition 112 of 1990. Placed
on the ballot by legislators, the measure was pitched as a way to stamp
out corruption – that worked, right? – but created a commission that,
until recently, raised legislators' pay.

Brown readily acknowledged that interpretation ran counter to a 1972
constitutional amendment, also approved by voters, which said
legislators' pay could not be cut midterm.

Brown also was getting ready to run for governor and knew his stand
would be politically popular. That lesson, no doubt, was not lost on
Chiang, an ambitious politician.

In very real ways, Democratic legislators find themselves in a worse
situation now than before Proposition 25's passage. At least they would
have gotten paid during budget standoffs in past years.

Proposition 25 allows them to pass budgets by a simple majority. But
they still need Republican votes to attain the two-thirds supermajority
to approve tax increases.

Unable to win Republican support for taxes, they are left with the
unhappy prospect of cutting deeper into state programs – though some
might be delighted to trim the budget of at least one statewide elected
official.

"Oh," Hancock told me ever so innocently, "that never occurred to me
until now."

Perhaps pay forfeiture will hasten a resolution. Maybe that solution
will be sound. Maybe Democrats and Republicans will hold hands and sing
"Kumbaya."

Legislators need to pay the rent. Economic self-interest could force
them to vote for a budget they would otherwise reject. That would be
understandable – and a breach of their duty. It also would be a
consequence of an initiative that was too slick for its own good.

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Re: World Party Declaration

no thanks ... the USA is not interested

but, if you're willing to take them, we have a bunch of liberal
socialists we'll give you

On Jun 22, 5:23 pm, "Toshio Suzuki" <a...@t-u.jp> wrote:
>             Dear Friends,
>
>             My name is Toshio Suzuki, Japanese.  I am promoting a movement
> to establish World Federation and World Government.  We are going to hold
>
> "World Party Convention"
>
> http://www.w-g.jp/wp/conv-wp/conv-wp.htm.
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> The first object is to adopt
>
> "World Party Declaration"
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> http://www.w-g.jp/wp/conv-wp/dec-wp.htm.
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> Your opinion is invited.  On the same day,
>
> "World Citizen Network"
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> http://www.w-g.jp/wcn/conv-wcn/conv-wcn.htm
>
> is held.  Non-World Party member can participate and speak
>
>                                                  Yours Sincerely
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>                                                   Toshio Suzuki
>
> World Government Institute, World Party, & World Citizen Network
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Re: What Does ‘Class Action’ Mean?

The word "class" is the English lexicon is usually used in two ways.

The first is the popular sense that refers to social standing. A
person can be from the "working class." A person can be part of the
"middle class." In American society, there is by tradition no such
thing as an "upper class." There might be a "leisure class" or an
"upper middle class" or an "upper crust" but no "upper class" -- and
that probably stems from the charming myth that we abolished such a
thing with the elimination of Lords and Dukes.

But thats not what it means in the legal lexicon, at all

I agree with the decision, and it was unanimous

On Jun 22, 11:18 am, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
> What Does Class Action Mean?by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
> The news of the Supreme Court decision on Wal-Mart -- declining to approve a massive lawsuit against an amazing company -- was reported as if it amounted to some devastating blow to American life. Nonsense: the decision actually permits normalcy in economic development to proceed without a new round of destruction of wealth. Some lawyers might be sad, but it is great for the rest of us.
> The lawsuit grouped the interests of 1.6 million women who had worked for 3,400 stores since 1998. One can only imagine the looting that would have commenced had the decision gone the other way. It would have been catastrophic. What the Supreme Court did was narrowly decline to wreck even more American labor markets and the gears of free enterprise. It is a small favor, but thank goodness for it.
> The lawsuit that was turned back was called a "class-action lawsuit." The word "class" is the English lexicon is usually used in two ways.
> The first is the popular sense that refers to social standing. A person can be from the "working class." A person can be part of the "middle class." In American society, there is by tradition no such thing as an "upper class." There might be a "leisure class" or an "upper middle class" or an "upper crust" but no "upper class" -- and that probably stems from the charming myth that we abolished such a thing with the elimination of Lords and Dukes.
> A derivative sense of the term class is more colloquial. We say that a person "has class," which means that he or she acts and behaves in ways that are generally higher on the social strata than the norm. We might say something is "classy," meaning pretty, beautiful, impressive, or suggestive of wealth and opulence.
> This is not the sense in which the term class is used for these lawsuits. The second definition is the relevant one and it is mostly drawn from academia and the Marxist tradition in particular. The Marxist theory is that all of society is constantly seething in conflicting and exploitative social relationships that pit group against group.
> In Marx s view, the core economic conflict was labor versus capital. The idea is that capitalists exploit the workers by sucking the surplus value of production from them such that capital grows ever richer and labor ever poorer. The guy built an entire system of thought based on this idea and it has inspired revolutions around the world.
> It s all a bit strange because it is so obviously untrue. If I hire you to mow my grass, you are not being exploited. We are cooperating in mutually beneficial exchange. No one has a gun to your head and we both are free to negotiate the terms of the deal. You can work for anyone who wants to hire you and I can hire anyone who is willing to work for me. This is called peace and exchange; there is nothing exploitative about it.
> Marx was just brewing buckets of envy in a time when people were confused about the accumulation of capital and confused about demographic movements and the like. His theory explained nothing and was based on nothing, but somehow it stuck and it still festers, inspiring governments and theorists around the world to try to reinvent Marxism.
> One reinvention of Marxist theory is the idea that the gains of whites come at the expense of blacks, or that the gains of men come at the expense of women, or that the gains of abled people come at the expense of the disabled, or that the gains of people in general come at the expense of the environment. They all assume that there is something like a class of people whose interests and outlook are homogeneous in every sense that matters.
> This is obviously not the case with the people who joined -- or who were joined without their permission, in the usual way -- the "class action lawsuit" against Wal-Mart. First, there is no such thing as the interests of women -- or of men, or blacks, or disabled people or the environment. Interests are always radically heterogeneous because the world is filled with unique individuals with subjective perspectives, ideas, and experiences.
> Second, there was no class "acting" in this case. It was a bunch of lawyers using some former Wal-Mart employees -- let s just say that these people were being exploited by attorneys -- in the attempt to pick the deepest pockets around. Had the lawsuit been won, the women would have received settlements that would pay a day of parking meter fees. The lawyers would have looted it all.
> The American legal system should never let such a ridiculous lawsuit make any headway in the court system at all. If we had strict property rights, freedom of association and exchange, and freedom of contract, there would be no such thing as a class-action suit. If we had a real free market, we would be spared that massive social waste that was involved in this preposterous lawsuit.
> But then what about discrimination? It comes down to this. If Wal-Mart systematically discriminated against women, there is a wonderful market opportunity open for some other company to hire up all these millions of downtrodden people and make a great killing in the market. It is for this reason that irrational and invidious discrimination is not a feature of the market economy.
> There is no such thing as class in a free market. Its members are fluid and based on a huge range of economic conditions that are mostly left to human choice. Class is fluid and non-conflicting. Peace prevails.
> As for the Marxist idea of class, yes, its appearance can be created but only by legislation and lawsuits that pit one group against another group. It is wholly artificial and a good example of how the state creates the very problem it purports to solve. The Supreme Court should never be asked to decide this sort of matter, but its majority opinion grants us a temporary reprieve from more looting of the capitalist class (in the best sense of that term).http://lewrockwell.com/rockwell/what-does-class-action-mean184.html

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