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Yahoo! News Fires Reporter Over 'Black People Drowning' Remark: Does the Media Have a Liberal Bias?

Chris D 2012/08/30 18:00:00
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A Yahoo! News reporter got caught on a live mic joking that Mitt Romney was having a party while black people were drowning. A reference to Hurricane Issac in New Orleans. Conservatives complain all the time about how the mainstream media has a liberal bias, and doesn't truly reflect the views of the country.

In my view, the news is supposed to be telling the" truth" from the middle. But I know that is a fairytale. CNN's ratings are tanking while FOX News and CNBC are showing triple digit growth. Maybe people want to hear the news from their own point of view? The news media, aside from FOX News of course, does seems to have a certain disdain for conservatives. Do you think this is an isolated incident or a sign of a bigger problem?

FOXNEWS.COM reports:
Yahoo News' Washington bureau chief was fired Wednesday after he was caught on a hot mic joking that Mitt Romney is happy to have a party while black people drown.

hot mic joking mitt romney happy party black people drown

Read More: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08/29/yahoo-n...

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  • loudelk99 2012/08/30 17:58:18
    Yes
    loudelk99
    +16
    This reporters comments clearly show the bias in the media. Kudoos to yahoo news for canning him.

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  • SJ 2012/10/05 00:29:23
    Sometimes
    SJ
    Depends which outlet you decide to get your news from. Personally I think this question should be "does media have a money bias?" Because that's really the driving factor behind out 'news' today.
  • sue 2012/09/18 17:15:13
    Yes
    sue
    shoot I wanted to hit no. I do not believe that the media has a liberal bias. It is more conservative for sure. My question is "Why was he fired"? Is it the truth? Romney would care if New Orleans flew off the planet, he probably thinks it is the "Den of inequity" anyway.
  • bluejacket 2012/09/07 13:38:47
    Yes
    bluejacket
    If his comments were not heard on an open mic, do you think he would have been fired?
    I do not.
  • Libertys Martyr 2012/09/05 22:32:37
    Sometimes
    Libertys Martyr
    They have an elitist bias, a military industrial complex bias, a central banker bias, and government secrecy bias. Give whatever label you want... liberal, right wing, extremist, it doesn't matter, what matters is that THEY are in control and YOU can't do a god damn thing about it.
  • Kingarthurup 2012/09/05 19:15:22
    Yes
    Kingarthurup
    derrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrderrrrrr...
  • J 2012/09/05 15:22:05
    Yes
    J
    The media has a horribly slanted liberal bias. Even this story tries to deflect the fact that Romney (NOT President - yet) was visiting the people affected by Issac days before Obama (current President). And the reporter tries to make Romeny look like HE doesn't care. Where is the criticism of Obama? Oh, wait, he had important fundraisers to attend.
  • Matt 2012/09/05 14:30:11
    Sometimes
    Matt
    New Orleans is 67.25% Black - the reporter was probably correct.
  • CG Matt 2012/09/05 15:22:56
    CG
    In 2011 NO was 63% white.
  • Matt CG 2012/09/05 15:34:44
    Matt
    maybe it depends on which set of statistics we look at...

    http://neworleans.areaconnect...

    White 135956 28.05%
    Black or African American 325947 67.25%
    American Indian and Alaska Native 991 0.2%
    Asian 10972 2.26%
    Asian indian 1195 0.25%
    Chinese 958 0.2%
    Filipino 515 0.11%
    Japanese 283 0.06%
    Korean 358 0.07%
    Vietnamese 7118 1.47%
    Other Asian 545 0.11%
    Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 109 0.02%
    Native Hawaiian 27 0.01%
    Guamanian or Chamorro 29 0.01%
    Samoan 24 0%
    Other Pacific Islander 29 0.01%
    Some other race 4498 0.93%
    Two or more races 6201 1.28%


    i took a look at other demographics that show The New Orleans–Metairie–Bogalusa Combined Statistical Area (CSA) is 57% white so maybe the white folk are not in the city so much but spread around the area?
  • CG Matt 2012/09/05 15:45:19
    CG
    You're looking at the 2000 census. I looked at 2011.
  • J Matt 2012/09/05 15:29:19
    J
    New Orleans wasn't even where the brunt of the storm hit. But at the same time, where was Obama?
  • Matt J 2012/09/05 15:37:12 (edited)
    Matt
    +1
    i imagine winning an election is pretty important to both of them and neither would like to be thought of as beng at a party while anyone is dying...

    My comment was more to do with the fact that as crass as the guys statement was, it might have actually been true....
  • J Matt 2012/09/05 16:25:22
    J
    People weren't drowning in NO. And Romney wasn't "partying". He did the Convention, but I don't know that he was partying. My point was, why aren't they discussing where Obama was during the week after Issac?
  • lauren dull 2012/09/05 13:02:24
    Yes
    lauren dull
    of course it does. And everyone knows it.
  • Niceguyclt 2012/09/05 12:05:08
    Sometimes
    Niceguyclt
    +1
    In this particular case, the reporter did go too far, but in general, the media is pretty evenly split. Let's be honest...no president has EVER been under such intense media microscope as Obama has. He can't even crack his knuckles without drawing criticism. The media has been grossly unfair to BOTH parties at times. But to accuse the media as being pro-liberal is highly insulting to the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and some of the other loudmouth comedians we hear every single day. A liberal could balance the budget, provide 100% employment, and spin straw into gold, and these jackals would still find a reason to complain.
  • sue Niceguyclt 2012/09/18 17:18:03
    sue
    you have a point
  • Stix 2012/09/05 06:52:41
    Yes
    Stix
    The news media is so far in the tank for Obama that if they ever decided to come up for air they would get the bends...
  • DJPanicDC 2012/09/05 04:13:11
    No
    DJPanicDC
    They have a center right (Obama ) bias
    They are corporate run, for profit companies so they wont go true left
  • mizzSHADYgirl 2012/09/05 02:58:16
    Yes
    mizzSHADYgirl
    Sure
  • Steven Hahn 2012/09/05 02:53:11
    No
    Steven Hahn
    Fox news...a liberal bias??? Every time one of the media publishes something one side or another is afraid of, the old battle cry "liberal bias" becomes the call word of the day. This country is so deeply polarized that the voice of common sense and compromise is rarely, if ever heard. Liberals and conservatives alike. May the fleas of one thousand camels infest your armpits.
  • freebirdie 2012/09/04 22:38:58
    Yes
    freebirdie
    Fareed Zakariah, and other liberals (google them) have recently been suspended for plagiarism..but they all got their jobs back after just two days. (They've all worked for either CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, or ABC while rotating around on the merry-go-round of liberal media so they don't have too many other places to go.) They get rewarded for their sins so plagiarism doesn't matter anymore I guess. I'm sure colleges will still have them speak!

    The 'OLD GRAY LADY" is about done, as well as TIME and the NYT.. Liberal bastions, all. They make it sound as if they are the only voice in town but the ratings tell a totally different story. To survive they must lie and spin using the world's oldest tactic: "Did they really say/do...?" Just like Satan in the Garden of Eden used on Eve, 'did God really say no..?' Well yes, Yes He did.
    People want to hear just the news. If a view is presented, give both sides fairly, speak the truth, and leave out your own spin!
    Here's another tactic you will hear with libs. When I watched CNN during the 2008 campaign they would start out talking-up Obama in every story by telling you the color shirt he wore and how he looked good in it, talked up all the great things he did that day, all the wonderful things he said and made him sound like God Almig...




    Fareed Zakariah, and other liberals (google them) have recently been suspended for plagiarism..but they all got their jobs back after just two days. (They've all worked for either CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, or ABC while rotating around on the merry-go-round of liberal media so they don't have too many other places to go.) They get rewarded for their sins so plagiarism doesn't matter anymore I guess. I'm sure colleges will still have them speak!

    The 'OLD GRAY LADY" is about done, as well as TIME and the NYT.. Liberal bastions, all. They make it sound as if they are the only voice in town but the ratings tell a totally different story. To survive they must lie and spin using the world's oldest tactic: "Did they really say/do...?" Just like Satan in the Garden of Eden used on Eve, 'did God really say no..?' Well yes, Yes He did.
    People want to hear just the news. If a view is presented, give both sides fairly, speak the truth, and leave out your own spin!
    Here's another tactic you will hear with libs. When I watched CNN during the 2008 campaign they would start out talking-up Obama in every story by telling you the color shirt he wore and how he looked good in it, talked up all the great things he did that day, all the wonderful things he said and made him sound like God Almighty Himself! Then they would make a contrast statement when they started talking about McCain pointing out all his supposed problems comparing him to The-Great-And-All-Powerful-Obama and say things like, "..so Senator Barack Obama is continuing to enjoy greeting people at the fair, but sadly McCain had a bad day today while he was out campaigning in the rain..." and then list all of the perceived bad things(--bad according to them), but they made it sound so natural and never once said anything good about McCain or called him by his first name with the title of Senator. I didn't want McCain but even I could see the obvious spin and games.

    People are sick and tired of the liberal bias and would rather watch FOX, which liberals say leans right, but really that is only for the pundit shows, like Hannity. At least I can watch both CNN and FOX and get a balance of pundit views (actually I don't even have to watch CNN). Fox has liberals on all the time (Heck, Juan Williams fill in for OReilly!) and they argue back and forth over things with everyone getting their talking points in (though the libs usually lose because of poor arguments overall.) CNN and MSNBC...they choose the least conservative pundits as tokens only. They don't even get their talking points in there! No wonder FOX has such high ratings.
    The news is pretty balanced on FOX. Shep is a flaming liberal who works for Fox and I've even heard him say many things that were very obviously lib-biased. He's quirky but good so they keep him on. I'm getting tired of him, frankly.

    Liberal bias in the media? Oh yeah!
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  • teachaman 2012/09/04 21:16:47
    Yes
    teachaman
    +1
    the only reason this guy lost his job is that his blatantly biased views were expressed on air, in a "live mike" oops ...
  • mae 2012/09/04 21:00:07
    Sometimes
    mae
    Sometimes, but Not in the State of Hawaii, where the local stations have been sold, and are now FOX affiliates. That doesn't qualify as LIBERAL in anybody's book.
  • libertariosaur 2012/09/04 20:42:56 (edited)
    Sometimes
    libertariosaur
    the MSM, including Fox, has a statist and authoritarian leaning bias. But I'm not connecting that and the story about this particular fire. I know that what the dude said was not very professional and Yahoo may not want to be associated with a man that says things like that.
  • txtumlin 2012/09/04 20:36:23
    Yes
    txtumlin
    So much so, it's palatable, obvious, embarrassing and INTERNATIONAL!

    The USA is the butt of sooo many jokes.
  • Zach 2012/09/04 17:36:10
    Yes
    Zach
    But that 'joke' would've been offensive no matter what side your on
  • evan.andeer 2012/09/04 15:08:20
    Sometimes
    evan.andeer
    +3
    There are many msm outlets that have a liberal bias but Fox News has an overwhelmingly conservative bias and, as the person states in their question, is one of the top two outlets. I agree that it's about money and ratings. If people want to hear news slanted toward their opinions, then that is what they will be given. I think the real question is whether people chose to accept what is "reported" on any network as fact. With the internet and the availability of foriegn and independent news sources, there are numerous options for recieving and disseminating the content of these outlets. Don't let MSNBC, YAHOO, or FOX do your thinking for you, read a book and try to understand history, it makes decoding the lies and misinformation much easier
  • Mike 2012/09/04 14:51:27
    No
    Mike
    meant to hit sometimes, but when a white guy presumes to tell the country what a black man feels then I put that up there with trying to explain women's feelings, cause he did not go thru the crap the other guy did
  • Largo A... Mike 2012/09/04 18:50:53
    Largo Adelaide
    +1
    Could you give an example of this occuring. Thanks
  • Mike Largo A... 2012/09/06 08:17:24 (edited)
    Mike


    this stuff has been tried before, that is the thing about republicans. it is the same argument repackaged and try to sell it to you again as good for you sad thing is this happened in 92
  • Scott 2012/09/04 13:17:50
    Yes
    Scott
    +2
    Absolutely the media is liberal biased.

    If the media reported honestly, Obama would never have been elected in the first place. When 'reporters' admit to 'getting tingles' in their legs at the spoken word of Obama, I think it's safe to say that they are in the tank for Obama.
  • Zombiecat~Metalhead4Life 2012/09/04 09:38:27
  • Ryan 2012/09/04 06:17:35
    Yes
    Ryan
    +3
    With a few exceptions there is a major liberal bias.
  • wilsonmja 2012/09/04 04:16:40
    Yes
    wilsonmja
    +3
    For sure it does. If you can't at least admit that much then you're in denials.
  • zbacku 2012/09/04 02:59:19
  • KoolGuyL 2012/09/04 02:35:54
    Sometimes
    KoolGuyL
    +1
    Some media outlets are liberally biased and some are conservatively biased.
  • zbacku KoolGuyL 2012/09/04 03:00:19
    zbacku
    +2
    You are delusional beyond belief. 99% of MSM is Left Wing Biased.
  • Ryan KoolGuyL 2012/09/04 06:08:10
    Ryan
    +1
    True but the majority are slanted to the left.
  • Blessed Sheep Gone Wild! 2012/09/03 23:52:11
    No
    Blessed Sheep Gone Wild!
    +1
    I am not sure exactly the bizarre form of logic that you are using to come to this conclusion. First the big hole in the logic, Yahoo! is part of this media that you are claiming to be biased. If they were biased, they would have protected this reporter by defending the ideology that the corporation and the employee would be sharing (if it were biased) Maybe its because you did not provide this information or because I have chased down too many nonexistent GOP magical rabbits (the 2008 catchphrase "you want me to do your homework for you" appeared as an easy way of saying "I don't know this is true but my gut tells me its true and if I keep repeating it, eventually it will be true" ) But I didn't see anything that remotely resembled this kind of cronyism that is so telling of a liberal.
    Second, anyone that has been paying attention to the Mitt Romney show has noticed that the man is a caricature of privileged upper class white man that has never been exposed to the real world outside the protective gates of the jet set. I haven't met many people that don't like rich people as a whole. I have met many that dislike rich people that have dark shadows cast on the means of which they got so wealthy. Any one that knows anything about Mormonism (his religion) would know that bl...

    I am not sure exactly the bizarre form of logic that you are using to come to this conclusion. First the big hole in the logic, Yahoo! is part of this media that you are claiming to be biased. If they were biased, they would have protected this reporter by defending the ideology that the corporation and the employee would be sharing (if it were biased) Maybe its because you did not provide this information or because I have chased down too many nonexistent GOP magical rabbits (the 2008 catchphrase "you want me to do your homework for you" appeared as an easy way of saying "I don't know this is true but my gut tells me its true and if I keep repeating it, eventually it will be true" ) But I didn't see anything that remotely resembled this kind of cronyism that is so telling of a liberal.
    Second, anyone that has been paying attention to the Mitt Romney show has noticed that the man is a caricature of privileged upper class white man that has never been exposed to the real world outside the protective gates of the jet set. I haven't met many people that don't like rich people as a whole. I have met many that dislike rich people that have dark shadows cast on the means of which they got so wealthy. Any one that knows anything about Mormonism (his religion) would know that black people are what they call the Laminites. Their skin color is a curse from God because they killed the Nephites (the white native Americans that Jesus visited after he died on the cross.)
    As Mitt was raised in a very strict Mormon home, to which he would have learned all his views of the world; It is not a liberal idea to think that them man would not like black people.
    This is not an excuse for this mans comments, but it is just not a reflection of this persons politics... its more about not liking corruption and racism. And the GOP is very fond of guilt by association spin... Mitt is associated with a lot of racism and corruption...
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  • JenSemPa Blessed... 2012/09/04 01:20:59
    JenSemPa
    +4
    >>>If they were biased, they would have protected this reporter >>>

    Sorry, I don't buy that.

    They didn't fire him because of what he said or thought.

    They fired him because it got out into the public, and they were embarrassed by it. They fired him just to save face, and to give the APPEARANCE of being unbiased.

    The truth is, this guy's thoughts and words are fairly representative of how the liberal media REALLY feel about conservatives/Republicans.

    I bet he said crap like that every day in their newsroom, without any live mikes around, and the powers-that-be at his news organization tolerated it and even agreed with it.

    I have no proof or evidence for saying that, admittedly. But come on, let's get real. Asking if the media has a liberal bias is JUST like asking if the Pope is Catholic.
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