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Date Posted: 17:16:01 01/10/08 Thu
Author: Deep Diction
Subject: Re: Bill's wife losing again
In reply to: EJetson 's message, "Re: Bill's wife losing again" on 13:21:48 01/10/08 Thu

>>>>The "liberal bias" thing is total BS. The reality is
>>>>that the vast majority of media outlets subscribe to
>>>>the principles of journalistic integrity, and
>because
>>>>they choose not to devote "equal time" between
>>>>well-researched, unbiased positions and kooky
>>>>fundamentalist wacko positions, they get labeled as
>>>>liberal.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>You don't think that statement contains extreme
>>>liberal bias?
>>
>>None whatsoever. Conservative talk radio and
>>conservative television stations have long market
>>themselves as bias-free, when they're clearly much
>>more biased than mainstream media. Liberals have their
>>own outlets, but they're few and far between. Fox News
>>might as well start filming their broadcasts from the
>>Oval Office desk. Or under it.
>
>
>
>Fox is biased conservatively.
>NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN are all biased liberally.
>Journalistic integrity is a thing of the past. Any of
>these networks would rather air the latest Britney
>Spears crisis than political issues.
>
>Your claim that the liberal outlets only state the
>"well-researched, unbiased positions" and not "kooky
>fundamentalist wacko positions" is as biased as
>anything you'd see on Fox News.
>
>It doesn't matter what they market themselves as.
>They're all biased one way or the other. There are no
>truly neutral mainstream news outlets.
>
>Are there any Republicans that you do like?

NBC, CBS, ABC, and CNN are all dead center. Sure, they have opinion segments from time to time that are hosted by liberals, but they also have opinion segments hosted by conservatives... through during W's first term in office, most of these stations drifted a little to the right because the White House wouldn't give them interviews if the reporters asked them anything but softball questions.

And there are plenty of Republicans I like. McCain is one of them. If you're referring to news anchors, there are probably plenty... I respect any anchor who speaks from a neutral point of view, so I like the ones that don't offer any clues to their true viewpoints. I actually really enjoy Wikipedia for its efforts to maintain a neutral point of view in its articles. Sometimes I'll read an article about a famous person and click over to the discussion page to see the disputes over what qualifies as bias. It keeps me grounded.

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