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

[SuperHornet]

Think again. TV execs just copped to it.

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

[Ivytalk]

And the sun rises in the East.

[Vidav]

So?

[Grizalltheway]

So?

I guess freedom of the press only applies if it's the right kind of press.

[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.

[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.

[Baldy]

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.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

Y'all have corporate america. you've got enough.

[D1B]

Y'all have corporate america. you've got enough.

...and the religious industrial complex.

[CitadelGrad]

Y'all have corporate america. you've got enough.

Yeah, because Obama has never even met anyone from Government Sachs.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

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.

[GannonFan]

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.

[Baldy]

Y'all have corporate america. you've got enough.

Ummm, you wanna try again?

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

[Baldy]

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.......

[LeadBolt]

And the sun rises in the East.

[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.

[CID1990]

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.

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.

[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.

[LeadBolt]

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

[kalm]

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.

[LeadBolt]

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.

[kalm]

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.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

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.

[citdog]

the last tv show that was from the right.


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[GannonFan]

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.