Fed up with political content

[mval23]

Dear TF,

Hello. I love the magazine and have been a loyal reader for almost ten years. However, I am thoroughly sick and tired with the way you push your political preferences. The bias is inappropriate to the point where it is just propaganda. In the past, I’ve been able to just roll my eyes when I come across a political cheap shot within your pages and move on but your review of the film “W.” just left me floored. I don’t know the particulars of your ownership or publishers and whether they encourage this partisanship. Personally, I think a magazine named Total Film should be about films, not politics. Particularly when reviewing films, I feel as though the reviewer should be able to enter with a clear, non-judgemental mind and present a clear unbiased interpretation of what he or she saw rather than a critique based on how it related to their world view.

In interviews and features, your writers are phenomenal in their ability to fawn over their subjects love and support for Sen. Barack Obama. The problem is, often this support goes completely undefined and far be it for me to assume what goes on in the mind of Hollywood celebrities, but I find it hard to believe that people such as Scarlett Johansson and Matt Damon actually understand what they’re talking about, I rather suspect they’re behind Obama because he supports gay marriage and abortion. When personalities such as these are featured, you always are very quick to point out that they indeed support the Democratic party but the same courtesy is not extended to people such as Jon Voight, Denzel Washington and John Malkovich who have contrary views, yet while the aforementioned liberals are given a global voice, you never seem to hear the views of those others even though they are politically involved themselves, some of them with many thoughts and questions they’d like asked because they are seemingly blackballed by the media.

Which brings me back to the review of W., specifically this line: “It’s an eye-opening one too, for those who know only the basic outline of Bush’s lost years. And that’s a fair few given the current administration’s talent for suppressing information.”

Any well-adjusted person who has set foot in the United States of America knows that 90% of television and print media is very liberal and completely in the tank for the Democratic Party – particularly Barack Obama.

Now I don’t want to go into too much detail here but if you think the Republicans are suppressing the media, and the Democrats are much fairer and better, you have quite simply not got a clue.

The media in the US has done an incredible job of vilifying anyone who dares refuse to drink the Obama Kool-Aid. Their latest target is Investigative Reporter Barbara West of Orlando’s WFTV who asked Democrat VP Candidate Joe Biden some probing questions; questions that had, prior to that, not been asked of Obama or his VP candidate, You can probably find a transcript yourself so I won’t go into detail here. The point is, Biden lied repeatedly, dodged answering legitimate concerns and became angered.

For her questions, West has been told by the Obama campaign that neither she nor her TV station will have any additional access to the Democrat candidate (frozen out) and is now being investigated by the Obama media in order to dig up dirt on her and members of her family. After Joe the Plumber asked the question that elicited Obama’s “spread the wealth” comment, an Ohio state investigation—by a Democrat and Obama-supporting official—began. Obama is not yet President and he’s already beginning the investigations of private citizens for daring to ask tough questions of the Democrat messiah. This is intimidation waged against US citizens under the colour of authority.

Further to that, despite the denials of the top level, it looks very likely that if elected, a Democrat administration would attempt to reintroduce the “Fairness Doctrine”. Now the idea is a nice one, that media outlets would need to present a balanced approach to political matters. The problem with this is, it’s virtually impossible to prove that television or print news is unfairly biased in favour of one candidate or another. Even something as blatant as showing Sarah Palin’s teleprompter at the RNC while not showing Obama’s (notorious for being unable to talk coherently without notes) at the DNC could be written off as an “accident”.

It’s more cut and dried with radio media which is predominantly conservative in nature. The reason talk radio is mostly conservative is that leftist shows and networks such as Air America which Al Franken was a broadcaster for cannot compete and attract very poor ratings, and thusly get cancelled. The Fairness Doctrine would force a radio station to have half their shows be right-wing and half be left-wing. Since the left-wing shows would not get ratings, they’d be forced to drop all political programming or face having their license revoked. And so, the last voice of opposition would fall and you’d be well on your way to a nation in which all media outlets are controlled by the government. That is the Democratic party which Total Film magazine is so eager to pimp. I could go on all day exposing how disturbing the Obama Presidency will be.

I didn’t mean for this to be so long. I just don’t want to hear anymore in the magazine about how great Obama is and how evil the Republicans are or how stupid Boris Johnson is. Leave politics out of it.

- Val

[Buried At Sea]

i personally got half way through that and got bored and irritated.

[AYBGerrardo]

If it's US politics I don't mind at all if TF shows preference for a particular candidate...it's not exactly propaganda if we're not the ones voting

[Jonesy]

Originally Posted by mval23

but your review of the film “W.” just left me floored. I don’t know the particulars of your ownership or publishers and whether they encourage this partisanship. Personally, I think a magazine named Total Film should be about films, not politics.

How can a review of a political film not discuss politics?