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Just as a group of individuals with left-leaning values are collectively referred to as "the left", the "individuals with individual biases" to the left or right can be referred to as the liberal and conservative media...don't really understand why you're trying to say there is no collective here.
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Well I guarantee you a lot of Conservatives did not like Bush's performance - surveys are showing between 60 and 72 percent of respondents thought Kerry won. That's a huge, huge margin. Either 20 percent of conservatives admitted Kerry bested them, or they chose not to answer because they didn't want to think about it.
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Well something we all have to remember is....
the media would not be doing their job if they didn't appear to be biased. The media HAVE to hold the government accountable...they are one of the checks and balances that make a democracy effective. If they objectively presented the public with the government's actions without judging them, where would we be? The government could run roughshod over whatever they wanted without fear of reproach. The media act as a counterweight, and they do it very well. Don't forget, the media didn't condemn the Republicans for impeaching Clinton - they covered every single tiny details of that sex scandal. Clearly they're not purely in the service of the left wing, because they would have tried to suppress that or say the Republicans were going too far.
The media HAS to take an intellectual stand against the affairs of the day to be effective.
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Grooveless, the media covered every single nitpicking detail of the Monica affair right down to the bloody blue dress while glossing over the fact that he [/b]lied[b] under oath about having an affair with her! The pundits and media talking heads who form the journalistic conventional wisdom didn't think it was a big deal that a political leader delibrately lied to cover his affair because he was afraid of embarrassment and scandal. If he had simply said Yes, I had an affair but no I did not try to bribe Monica with a job offer, etc the whole thing would have died away because there really was no concrete proof that Clinton tried to bribe her, that evidence was all circumstancial. The Republicans made a huge error by focusing on the bribery attempts and not on the stark proof that Clinton lied under oath and under questioning by Paula Jones's attornies that he had an affair with Monica Lewinsky. Why else would Clinton get fined and lose his Arkansas law license for 5 years if not for that?
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Wasn't Slick Willie great though? Not one ounce of shame.
It's funny because there is no changing strong supporters of both sides. If Bush or Kerry murdered someone, their supporters would still put some spin on the situation to make everything all right. 
