Smh. For one thing those legiitmate news outlets don't IGNORE stories that make Democrats or Liberals look bad. Any time one crops up that makes the GOP or conservatives look bad, Fox Does its best to pretend that it never happened. Or its only newsworthy because of the "bias" of the "mainstream media". One of the most effective proprganda techniques is what called "Priming the Pump. What you do is that you accuse your adversaries of doing the very thigns YOU are doing. It works because----to the undiscerning or the not-well-informed----it muddies the water so that people have trouble figuring out what the truth is. Also it insulates you from people pointing out the truth of what you're doing....because you've already "primed the pump" so people expect the counter attack. Fox----and Right-wing media in general----runs around accusing anyone who doesn't see the world like THEY want as being "biased" and having it in for "conservatives". One, to deflect attention from the fast-and-loose ways they play with the facts, and the very clear political agenda they are promoting. Two. To create distrust of other---more objective----sources of information (Us vs Them). So that their audience ONLY gets their information from RWM...and therefore its easy to control what information their target audience has access to, and how they see and interpret it. Its one of the biggest....longest running political cons in modern history.

So, just the vast right wing conspiracy Lois Lerner and the IRS targeted Tea party groups I guess. Yeah, the "news" outlets I mentioned don't do the exact things you've mentioned.

No...they don't. MSNBC has a clear left-spin to thei EDITORIAL shows...but they make it clear that you are watching opinion...and not news. I would direct you to a number of books that clearly outline the history hear, and precisely what tactics right-wing media uses...and who is paying the bills for it. But then---as I said----the first thing RWM does is create DISTRUST and confusion where more objective sources of information. Plus there was never any FACTS to support that the whole IRS thing was anything more than politically TONE DEAF attempt on the part of ONE IRS office to do its job. Deny tax-exempt status to organizations that existed for solely political reasons. But just like Benghazi, right-wingers tend to focus on what they wish to believe is real....and ignore it when the facts don''t support that desired belief.

Mhm. As an independent, you're as much as the problem as they are, and neither one of you wants to see the light on that fact. Even your posts have been every bit as distorting and half truth-ed as the tactics they employ that you're denouncing. "Read these books they'll give you the REAL truth!". They prey on fear, you say, yet here you are using scare tactics to point to how awful the right wingers are. "You can trust me, its the other guy you got to look out for" says both sides of the same coin.

...and you are a victim fo the Muddying of the Waters that right-wing media seeks to create. Because the difference between someone like me---and them----is I deal in facts that are supportable by science. Not assertion. Distratction. Character assassination...and make up your own set of facts if the reals ones don't support what you wish to believe. Read the book "The Authoritarians" by Prof. Bob Altemeyer. Read the series of books by Kevin Phillips the Republican strategist who crafted The Southern Strategy that gave rise to the modern Republican Party. You will find it very eye opeing. Altemeyers' writing is backed by decades of social science research. Phillips is writing about the political history he not only lived....but that he participated in bringing about. Fox News is not run by someone who has a background in Journalism. It is run by Roger Ailes. Who served as the MEDIA CONSULTANT for THREE Republican Presidents and their campaigns: Richard Nixon. Ronald Reagan. George H.W. Bush. Take a moment to digest that. You have a media outlet----being treated as an source of journalism----being run by a political media consultant. One with a very clear partisan history.