Are there any educated liberals and educated conservatives who are both sick of the media?

well...I agree, but I think we shouldn't look to news channels for "intellectually stimulating debates"....

they really should be for the news, which they give (at times), but the opinion shows are really just jokes... serving only those that don't have an original opinion...

I am generally conservative but do sway liberal on certain issues.

I am fed up with the media as well. Everything is sensationalized, and the networks and reporters seem to create the news rather than just report it. Nothing is factual or unbiased any more. And the things focused on (like the celebs behaving badly) are so far from what matters to most people that the networks are largely irrelevant as far as being sources of accurate news.

There was a time in this country when the news media actually reported news.

Now, it seems like the anchorman/talking head is really the one making the news, and the people being interviewed are just there to add credibility to the reporter's opinion.

With the news media, believe only about 1/2 of what you see, and none of what they tell you.

You sound like the average American. Most people don't side full with either end of the spectrum. I think were all pretty sick of the media though. The problem is only people that take a strong positon on a particular issue get media attention. Thus all the BS

I'm mostly pretty far on the liberal side, with a few belief areas where I'm considered conservative (abortion and such).

The media is a bunch of blowhards. Overall, they don't know what they're even talking about, and almost none of them even really try to give an unbiased view.

I totally agree. The media is a business competing for advertising. Each media outlet has their target audience and they do what they can to keep their audience consuming. The age old credo of the media is "if it bleeds, it leads." This means that stories of sensationalism, violence, sex, or scandel, or a combination of these is front page material. Actual news stories that are important but not gripping or entertaining are buried in the newspapers or just a fleeting mentionable on cable.

In recent polls 40% of the country claims to lean conservative as against 25% liberal. Given those numbers statics might point out that the respond is not any, yet maximum liberals evaluate themselves to be the neatest human beings interior the room and attempt to propagate this fable each hazard they get. that is to no longer say that there are no longer clever liberals. that is to assert that liberals oftentimes evaluate everyone who does no longer think of like they do to be uneducated.

I'm also somewhere in the middle ... so I get called a liberal

and yes, I'm sick of it ... everything has become a conspiracy, and we let politicos politicize and spin everything ... to the point where we as individuals have to guess what we believe ... and we end up fighting about the details and the blame

there is too much right and left, and not enough moving forward

I agree... but I also think the media is a reflection of US. So is the media to problem? Or is it actually the liberals and conservatives they mirror? I'm thinking it is more the latter than the former.

I used to be a journalism major until I realized that the manstream media is a joke, so I didn't want to be any part of that. Of course, they are a business and they need readers/viewers/listeners, but they cater to the lowest common denominator. The lead story on my local news stations the other night was OJ Simpson. Are you kidding me? Sure it was newsworthy, but the lead story? Same with when Paris Hilton went to jail. Our nation is in caught in a quagmire. We have the most corrupt president in the history of the US and he is getting away with it all, yet the media is yammering on about Paris Hilton.