Oh brother. Here's a superfluous project if ever there was one. Despite the "conventional wisdom" that the media is liberally biased, actual liberals know this not to be true. There's a reason that Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow are two of the only "liberal" TV news figures most people can think of. . .outside of a handful of others, that's all there is. The mainstream media consists of about 6 big companies, and those big companies may elect to put a couple of liberal voices out there (as on General Electric's MSNBC), but it is far from universal.
FOX "News" may claim that they are fair and balanced, but the only people who believe that are FOX Fans, conservative to a one. Add to that a wealth of right-leaning online outposts (Free Republic, The Drudge Report, FOX Nation, Red State, Hot Air, and others too numerous to mention), is there really an outcry for yet another branded multi-media far right entity? And why, Kelsey Grammer, why do you have to lend your voice to this? Wasn't An American Carol embarrassment enough?
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It's War! Help Beat Comcast/NBC Merger & Their New Right Wing Cable Network
In the most despicable and arrogant gesture since the Citizen's United decison itself, Comcast is now partnering with Tea Baggers to create a purely right wing, cable and Internet outlet called the "Right Network." This PDF shows you just how ambitious these professional propagandists are.
How appalling, given that conservatives already outnumber liberals by 3-1 in the general media, and 20-1 on talk radio. And of course, they already have that 24×7 Fox news channel. A right network seems rather redundant, eh?. But that won't stop them from playing the same old "we just have to balance the liberal media" lie. Sort of like how they had to put a stop to those "activist judges," by installing the most activist judges in history. . .
Hat tip to @SamSeder via twitter
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