What did you think of Piper Palin tending to her brother? How about the media?

[pugfug90]

<p>Hot</a> Air Blog Archive Video: The obligatory “Rockwell moment from Palin’s speech” clip</p>

<p>I thought it was so cute :)</p>

<p>NYT:</a> 'Journalists Wrinkled Their Nose in Disgust' at Piper's Touching Gesture | NewsBusters.org</p>

<p>The "mainstream" media, not so.</p>

<p>Anyway, feel free to discuss this cute moment, rant off about the liberal media, or whateve</p>

[Jarn]

<p>I would like to rant about the liberal media. I really hate that term. Liberal media. Every time I hear it I wonder just how much actual news people using it watch… whether they’ve ever had an independent thought in their life… etc.</p>

[appleofmyeye]

<p>I thought that it was an adorable gesture..: )</p>

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@Jarn

I would like to rant about the liberal media. I really hate that term. Liberal media. Every time I hear it I wonder just how much actual news people using it watch… whether they’ve ever had an independent thought in their life… etc.

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<p>It’s not just the TV news. Print media is very liberal, that includes newspapers as well as most magazines. Hollywood is extremely liberal. You’ll see tons of TV series about single women in New York City who have gay friends, but you won’t find anything glorifying old school 50’s family values that isn’t satirical.</p>

<p>Hollywood alone probably carries more influence than any news media. Hollywood in conjunction with newspapers & other print media easily carry more influence than Fox News and talk radio.</p>

[Jarn]

<p>No… television is not liberal. Print media varies a bit - can be, can not be, usually not. The “liberal media” is just a ridiculous thing used to get votes.</p>

[Dbate]

<p>Well studies have been done to show hat there is a liberal bias in the media. </p>

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“According to Dan Sutter of the University of Oklahoma, a systematic liberal bias in the U.S. media could depend on the fact that owners and/or journalists typically lean to the left”

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“Riccardo Puglisi of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology looks at the editorial choices of the New York Times from 1946 to 1997.[15] He finds that the Times displays Democratic partisanship, with some watchdog aspects.”

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“Alan Gerber and Dean Karlan of Yale University use an experimental approach to examine not whether the media are biased,[16] but whether the media influence political decisions and attitudes. They conduct a randomized control trial just prior to the November 2005 gubernatorial election in Virginia randomly assign individuals in Northern Virginia to (a) a treatment group that receives a free subscription to the Washington Post, (b) a treatment group that receives a free subscription to the Washington Times, or (c) a control group. They find that those who are assigned to the Washington Post treatment group are eight percentage points more likely to vote for the Democrat in the elections. The report also found that “exposure to either newspaper was weakly linked to a movement away from the Bush administration and Republicans.”[16]”

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<p>So it is pretty documented and substantiated by research from places like:MIT, Yale, and the University of Oklahoma that there does exist a “liberal media”.</p>

[ASC]

<p>I think the least those rich parents can do is hire a nanny so the kids can enjoy themselves. </p>

<p>. . . at least, assuming that they’re normal kiddos like the rest of us and they don’t enjoy playing free babysitter.</p>

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<p>She didn’t look unhappy holding him. I don’t think it was a chore. I don’t think it was planned or contrived. Dad handed her the kid when mom introduced him and he had to stand up. He didn’t look the least ready to do that.</p>