How can the media be mostly liberal when they are owned by mostly conservatives?

You have got to be kidding me right?

They aren't mostly liberal. This is just the right wing spin machine you are hearing. In fact, newspapers have more often endorsed republicans for president in every election since Truman except twice. Talk radio is 90% conservative. Shows like Hantity, Limbaugh etc. are the equivalent of 3 hrs of free advertising for the republican party every day. And most television news at least tries to be non-partisan. However lately even they have been repeating the talking points that you hear on talk radio. Then you have FOX news which is very obviously conservative. But you are correct. The news media has been bought up by corporations which are more and more influencing what gets on the news and they are decidedly conservative.

The media needs to sell advertising, so that is a check and balance that probably favors conservatives. But I am ok with the media having a liberal bent. The media in a Democracy should challenge the status quo and keep authority in check. Doing so seems to fall under liberalism. I don't want complacency. I don't want a controlled media that reports status quo.

You are right about this. I used to work for NBC television when the Monica Lewinsky thing was going on, and about half of the people there thought it was a witch hunt and another half thought he should be kicked out, just like the general public.

Everybody loves to whine that the TV doesn't present their viewpoint, liberal and conservative. The fact is it's not the TV's job to present people's propoganda for them (unless you're on Fox, where everybody has the same opinion!)

These companies are not "owned" by Conservatives. In most cases the large companies that hold news media outlets are giant corporations that are publicly traded. That means they are "owned" by every one who has a share of stock in them.

These corporations tend to donate money on both sides of the political aisle, but somehow, usually end up giving bigger donations to the Democrats.

The idea of media bias is not a lie made up by Fox news. Commentators on MSNBC were openly mocking the Republican candidates and laughing on the air at their debate responses. (For just one example...)

FOX news is an interesting counterpoint. They seem more balanced to me, but the owner of Fox is Rupert Murdoch, and his politics are decidedly liberal

Considering that most big liberal media companies are publicly traded, you have no way of knowing this.

Even if the companies are run by conservatives, their news divisions are not.

Exactly, the propaganda that the media is liberal is another of those PR stunts, they think if they say it enough, people will believe it.

This liberal media thing is being spread by the fascist fox news network and other neo-con media.

Ted Turner owns CNN is a conservative?

Excellant question. Good observation.

I agree.