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Think TV isn't pusing a left-wing agenda?

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 4:24 pm
by SuperHornet
Think again. TV execs just copped to it.

http://tv.yahoo.com/blog/tv-executives- ... enda--3086

:ohno:

Re: Think TV isn't pusing a left-wing agenda?

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 4:47 pm
by Ivytalk
And the sun rises in the East. :coffee:

Re: Think TV isn't pusing a left-wing agenda?

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 7:24 pm
by Vidav
So?

Re: Think TV isn't pusing a left-wing agenda?

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 7:29 pm
by Grizalltheway
Vidav wrote:So?
I guess freedom of the press only applies if it's the right kind of press.

Re: Think TV isn't pusing a left-wing agenda?

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 7:52 pm
by CID1990
NEVER trust a single source.

Watch them all.

Read ravenously.

Take what you see and read, hold up your opinion against your life experience and those things you know to be true, and then you will almost always arrive at a well informed opinion.

Re: Think TV isn't pusing a left-wing agenda?

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 8:38 pm
by DJH
It's interesting, because if a conservative were to make a claim like this, he'd be labled as a conspiracy theorist who wears a tin foil hat.

Re: Think TV isn't pusing a left-wing agenda?

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 8:52 pm
by Baldy
Grizalltheway wrote:
Vidav wrote:So?
I guess freedom of the press only applies if it's the right kind of press.
I don't think anyone is saying that they shouldn't have the freedom to do what they want, but made in Hollywood TV Sitcoms isn't the 'press'. Seems that Shapiro is proving what everyone has known, but the left hasn't had the cajones to admit and always denied.

One thing is almost certain, if a successful Sitcom was produced deep in the heart of Texas and known conservative writers, producers, and directors were blatantly 'blackballing' liberal actors, the 'progressive' left would be bringing in teams of lawyers and screaming 'discrimination at the top of their lungs. :nod:

Re: Think TV isn't pusing a left-wing agenda?

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 9:41 am
by TwinTownBisonFan
Y'all have corporate america. you've got enough.

Re: Think TV isn't pusing a left-wing agenda?

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 9:46 am
by D1B
TwinTownBisonFan wrote:Y'all have corporate america. you've got enough.

...and the religious industrial complex.

Re: Think TV isn't pusing a left-wing agenda?

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 11:24 am
by CitadelGrad
TwinTownBisonFan wrote:Y'all have corporate america. you've got enough.
Yeah, because Obama has never even met anyone from Government Sachs.

Re: Think TV isn't pusing a left-wing agenda?

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 11:53 am
by TwinTownBisonFan
CitadelGrad wrote:
TwinTownBisonFan wrote:Y'all have corporate america. you've got enough.
Yeah, because Obama has never even met anyone from Government Sachs.
follow the money

campaign money flows from hollywood to dem campaign coffers - no denying it...

same holds true for the gop and the boardrooms of the biggest companies in america...

just the way it is.

Re: Think TV isn't pusing a left-wing agenda?

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 12:15 pm
by GannonFan
TwinTownBisonFan wrote:
CitadelGrad wrote:
Yeah, because Obama has never even met anyone from Government Sachs.
follow the money

campaign money flows from hollywood to dem campaign coffers - no denying it...

same holds true for the gop and the boardrooms of the biggest companies in america...

just the way it is.
Not really - campaign money from the boardrooms of the biggest companies in america flow to whomever the likely winner is going to be. Obama and the Dems raked it in in 2008 when it was clear the Dems were going to win big. Just like it went the other way when the GOP was ascendent in 2010. Corporate America likes to back the winner, especially considering they'll then have to deal with the winner for the next few years. Hollywood never cares about the winner, just who had a "-D" after their name.

Re: Think TV isn't pusing a left-wing agenda?

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 12:31 pm
by Baldy
TwinTownBisonFan wrote:Y'all have corporate america. you've got enough.
Ummm, you wanna try again? :dunce:

John McCain 2008 election cycle
  • Merrill Lynch $373,595
    Citigroup Inc $322,051
    Morgan Stanley $273,452
    Goldman Sachs $230,095
    JPMorgan Chase & Co $228,107
    US Government $208,379
    AT&T Inc $201,438
    Wachovia Corp $195,063
    UBS AG $192,493
    Credit Suisse Group $183,353
    PricewaterhouseCoopers $167,900
    US Army $167,820
    Bank of America $166,026
    Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher $159,596
    Blank Rome LLP $154,226
    Greenberg Traurig LLP $146,437
    US Dept of Defense $144,105
    FedEx Corp $131,974
    Bear Stearns $117,498
    Lehman Brothers $114,357
Barack Obama 2008 election cycle
  • University of California $1,591,395
    Goldman Sachs $994,795
    Harvard University $854,747
    Microsoft Corp $833,617
    Google Inc $803,436
    Citigroup Inc $701,290
    JPMorgan Chase & Co $695,132
    Time Warner $590,084
    Sidley Austin LLP $588,598
    Stanford University $586,557
    National Amusements Inc $551,683
    UBS AG $543,219
    Wilmerhale Llp $542,618
    Skadden, Arps et al $530,839
    IBM Corp $528,822
    Columbia University $528,302
    Morgan Stanley $514,881
    General Electric $499,130
    US Government $494,820
    Latham & Watkins $493,835
:kisswink:

Re: Think TV isn't pusing a left-wing agenda?

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 12:34 pm
by Baldy
CitadelGrad wrote:
TwinTownBisonFan wrote:Y'all have corporate america. you've got enough.
Yeah, because Obama has never even met anyone from Government Sachs.
Or Government Motors, or Obama/Chrysler, Citigroup, JP Morgan, Time Warner, Google, Microsoft, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.......

Re: Think TV isn't pusing a left-wing agenda?

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 12:46 pm
by LeadBolt
:+1:
Ivytalk wrote:And the sun rises in the East. :coffee:

Re: Think TV isn't pusing a left-wing agenda?

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 1:05 pm
by JoltinJoe
So the creator of "Friends" cops to pushing a liberal agenda through his casting and scripts for the show, but as Chris Rock observed, he couldn't find one brother in all of New York City to feature on the show? I mean they made friends with a fucking monkey, and still they don't have one brother who is a friend?

Sounds like he's pushing a limo liberal agenda. :nod:

Re: Think TV isn't pusing a left-wing agenda?

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 8:01 pm
by CID1990
JoltinJoe wrote:So the creator of "Friends" cops to pushing a liberal agenda through his casting and scripts for the show, but as Chris Rock observed, he couldn't find one brother in all of New York City to feature on the show? I mean they made friends with a **** monkey, and still they don't have one brother who is a friend?

Sounds like he's pushing a limo liberal agenda. :nod:
Come on, man.

The brothers are only valuable in November every two years, and their votes are cheaply bought. Besides, they don't watch Friends. They watch the WB.

Re: Think TV isn't pusing a left-wing agenda?

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 8:03 pm
by OpieGSU
The idea that either "TV' or "the media" are singular entities with singular agendas is ridiculous. It just depends on the network you watch at any gigen time. There are plenty of networks out there touting the conservative agenda, or any other agenda for that matter. I'm not sure how one could think that all 1000 channels on your dish are all trying to convert you to be liberals. It;s bulshit.

Re: Think TV isn't pusing a left-wing agenda?

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 8:49 pm
by LeadBolt
OpieGSU wrote:The idea that either "TV' or "the media" are singular entities with singular agendas is ridiculous. It just depends on the network you watch at any gigen time. There are plenty of networks out there touting the conservative agenda, or any other agenda for that matter. I'm not sure how one could think that all 1000 channels on your dish are all trying to convert you to be liberals. It;s bulshit.
Right on, Captain Obvious

Re: Think TV isn't pusing a left-wing agenda?

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 9:10 pm
by kalm
LeadBolt wrote:
OpieGSU wrote:The idea that either "TV' or "the media" are singular entities with singular agendas is ridiculous. It just depends on the network you watch at any gigen time. There are plenty of networks out there touting the conservative agenda, or any other agenda for that matter. I'm not sure how one could think that all 1000 channels on your dish are all trying to convert you to be liberals. It;s bulshit.
Right on, Captain Obvious
by LeadBolt » Thu Jun 02, 2011 12:46 pm

+1

Ivytalk wrote:And the sun rises in the East.
:?

Re: Think TV isn't pusing a left-wing agenda?

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 9:24 pm
by LeadBolt
kalm wrote:
LeadBolt wrote:
Right on, Captain Obvious
by LeadBolt » Thu Jun 02, 2011 12:46 pm

+1

Ivytalk wrote:And the sun rises in the East.
:?
The article quotes "some tv executives" are pushing a left wing agenda and that is correct and what I agreed with.
Captain Obvious jumps from "some" to "all" due to a lack of reading comprehension, then makes the point that it is only some of the networks push the left wing agenda, and that networks are not a unified group and some of the 1000 networks he claims exist, push the right wing agenda. He is correct, if you throw in all of them, although I doubt there are 1000.

Re: Think TV isn't pusing a left-wing agenda?

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 9:52 pm
by kalm
LeadBolt wrote:
kalm wrote:


:?
The article quotes "some tv executives" are pushing a left wing agenda and that is correct and what I agreed with.
Captain Obvious jumps from "some" to "all" due to a lack of reading comprehension, then makes the point that it is only some of the networks push the left wing agenda, and that networks are not a unified group and some of the 1000 networks he claims exist, push the right wing agenda. He is correct, if you throw in all of them, although I doubt there are 1000.
He was "obviously" responding to the thread title. 8-)

Re: Think TV isn't pusing a left-wing agenda?

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 11:11 pm
by TwinTownBisonFan
GannonFan wrote:
TwinTownBisonFan wrote:
follow the money

campaign money flows from hollywood to dem campaign coffers - no denying it...

same holds true for the gop and the boardrooms of the biggest companies in america...

just the way it is.
Not really - campaign money from the boardrooms of the biggest companies in america flow to whomever the likely winner is going to be. Obama and the Dems raked it in in 2008 when it was clear the Dems were going to win big. Just like it went the other way when the GOP was ascendent in 2010. Corporate America likes to back the winner, especially considering they'll then have to deal with the winner for the next few years. Hollywood never cares about the winner, just who had a "-D" after their name.
yes - when a clear winner is obvious early on like it was in 08.

Re: Think TV isn't pusing a left-wing agenda?

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 4:14 am
by citdog
the last tv show that was from the right.


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Re: Think TV isn't pusing a left-wing agenda?

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 6:46 am
by GannonFan
TwinTownBisonFan wrote:
GannonFan wrote:
Not really - campaign money from the boardrooms of the biggest companies in america flow to whomever the likely winner is going to be. Obama and the Dems raked it in in 2008 when it was clear the Dems were going to win big. Just like it went the other way when the GOP was ascendent in 2010. Corporate America likes to back the winner, especially considering they'll then have to deal with the winner for the next few years. Hollywood never cares about the winner, just who had a "-D" after their name.
yes - when a clear winner is obvious early on like it was in 08.
It's like a chicken and egg thing - it became clear when the money broke so much in favor of one candidate. Happens all the time. Follow the money, and you have your winner. Like I said, Corporate America is almost like Vegas when it comes to these things - in the end, they always win - they really don't care what the party designation is, as long as it's the winner.