Is the media making people more right wing or are people making the media more right

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wing? Fox News is the most right wing and it gets the highest ratings. Other news stations pretend to be left wing, but are really right wing. For example today on Larry King Live CNN had a debate narrative with two options pro Afghanistan war or pro Iraq war, instead of being against the Iraq/Afghanistan wars as one side of the debate and pro war(s) as the other side of the debate. Then you have MSNBC that's always showing clips of Fox News and critiquing them, that's not news, are they so short on creativity and their own assessment of the news that they waste time trash talking another news station?

Even C-SPAN which usually isn't as far right wing as the other news stations talked a lot about the G20 summit and the tea party protests but virtually ignored the G20 protests and barely covered the latest Supreme Court case which is the most important news story in my opinion.

So do you think the narratives of the media make people more right wing or is it the free market at work, is the media just becoming more right wing because that's what the majority of their viewers want to see?
55% of people are against both the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, most of them liberal. Yet the media doesn't represent their views.
Where's the "liberal media" to speak against the latest Supreme Court case with the 5 conservative justices trying to overturn 100 years of precedent which would allow corporations to directly fund campaigns, with tax breaks to do so where as with PAC's there are no tax breaks? CNN and MSNBC should have been all over that, but they showed their true colors by letting that story fall under the radar.
 
I really believe that you have no idea what you are talking about. Left-wingers can go to war too.

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JFK, William Jefferson Clinton and B. Hussein Obama
 
1st answer made an interesting point about corporations aligning with the left wing. (TRUE lefties hate people like Olbermann being a mouthpiece for Obama via MSNBC)

The interesting thing is the left wing voted for a guy (Obama) who is a corporate creation if there ever was one.
 
That's a tough question. I would have to say that people are probably becoming more right wing at the moment because the Democrats won the majority of the Senate and the House and they won the executive branch. I think it is the pendulum swinging back the other way. Somehow this always happens in the history of American politics. At some times it is more extreme than others but it always seems to swing back to the middle somehow. Also, I think Democrats underestimated the tenacity of the right wing protesters. Right wing protesters claim that their Representatives and Senators have not been listening to them and I would say there is some truth in that. The Senators and Representatives have been acting like elite snobs more and more. They just seem even more out of touch than before (if that is even possible). People want someone they can identify with right now. They want a voice of reason. I think what people really want is a straight talking populist third party candidate to lead the nation. But you know how that goes; Democrats and Republicans have been effectively shutting out third party candidates for decades. The system is rigged. But that doesn't mean that can't change though. Maybe if the people demand an honest system and set out to reform their government, then it can happen. It all has to start with real campaign finance reform though. Somehow we have to get money out of politics. We have to get corporate money and lobbyists out of Washington.
 
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