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Why mainstream media is mostly Liberal? - Troo - 10-13-2012 11:32 PM
from the last paragraph of the Psychology Today article.....
"Conservatives often complain that liberals control the media or the show business or the academia or some other social institutions. Conservatives are correct in their complaints. Liberals do control the media, or the show business, or the academia, among other institutions, because, apart from a few areas in life (such as business) where countervailing circumstances may prevail, liberals control all institutions.
They control the institutions because liberals are on average more intelligent than conservatives and thus they are more likely to attain the highest status in any area of (evolutionarily novel) modern life."
"...the truth will set you free"
http://www.livescience.com/18132-intelligence-social-conservatism-racism.html
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/201003/why-liberals-are-more-intelligent-conservatives
Do you agree or disagree?
- xpatinasia - 10-13-2012 11:40 PM
Because they're more intelligent, and open to new ideas.
- auntb93 - 10-13-2012 11:40 PM
It's probably true, but not the primary reason most media is liberal. The real reason is that mass communication is about numbers, and about what is important to the majority of viewers. Conservatives are more about the elite.
- Crazyballoon952 - 10-13-2012 11:40 PM
Excellent, talk about just switching titles. LOL
But if the dr. is liberal lying isn't at issue.
- Annoyingtoes796 - 10-13-2012 11:40 PM
Because they are more likely to stick their noses in other ppls lives and t
Tell them how they are wrong and should live and they are gossip mongers
- VoteVoteVote - 10-13-2012 11:40 PM
Mainstream is...mainstream.
Mainstream news uses things called facts. Facts have a liberal bias, because conservatives don’t seem to like facts.
Fox & Friends, for example, reported that Obama ‘went to a Madrassa,’ then CNN (mainstream) corrected them by engaging in journalism.
- Wylie Dun - 10-13-2012 11:40 PM
Congratulations on your intelligence, so now tell us how to get out of the mess the country is in. All us dumb folks in Texas somehow are not having these economic troubles the rest of you are facing.
Maybe ignorance really is bliss.
- WACO - 10-13-2012 11:40 PM
Agree. Fox does not count because of the intelligence clause. There is so little there.
- Jackie - 10-13-2012 11:40 PM
Liberals control the media but not because they are more intelligent. That article you read is liberal biased. It's just another way to get people to vote democratic. If you hear the word psychology you think of the word smart. And then you think that oh if smart people or sites indorse liberal media then they must be right. Well, that's wrong. They are more popular because everyone now a days is growing up under the influence that republicans are bad and democrats are good. Public school teachers are democrats and there is no way for anyone to truly give an unbiased opinion. Teachers influence students and student grow up leaning to the left. And when they watch the news it also steers them to the left. Same with Hollywood, every tv show and every movie steers left. And when a movie with conservative values comes out it is bashed by critics, some theaters won't even play them! Almost everyone in California is a democrat! You can't say liberals are smarter than conservatives or conservatives are smarter than liberals. There is no science behind that. Liberals are more modern and want to change the foundation that this country was built on. Conservatives want to keep the family values and continue on the foundation that has made this country great. There are more liberals than conservatives because of the media. Like the article said people favor liberal media because it modern, not smarter. Thats because people are being taught from a young age that the modern liberal ideas and beliefs are right and smarter and that is just not correct, its just s form of brainwashing. When growing up, its hard when everything around you is liberal biased because it makes being conservative sound wrong. How are you supposed to understand conservative values or support them if you cant find them anyone where they arent distorted. Like I said, there is no such thing as an unbiased opinion or article, or an unbiased scientist.