10/14 Summary: Private corporations + interest in outcome +
broadcast in public medium = conflict of interest.
My prediction for news coverage-- a total repeat of 2000,
Fox will again declare Bush as the winner many hours before
the election's officially over. "We report, you comply."
\_ Hopefully they'll do it early enough that more Repubs won't vote.
\_ I sent my professor the above and he said "In Europe we
learn this in primary school :-). [Granted, my two main
teachers were communists.]"
\_ Media here don't make any claims to being objective. It can
get irritating, but hey, there are plenty of reasonably
balanced sources of information to choose from. -John
\_ I don't mind the bias here but I wish the media would
stop pretending to be objective when they're not. I'm
ok with yellow rag journalism. They should just be honest
that they aren't objective and let the readers decide.
\_ Well, even when they are pretty direct about having a
political agenda/bias (or rather, not giving a rat's ass
about trying to appear objective) the ultra holier-than-
thou attitude of a lot of Euro papers and TV news can be
pretty abrasive after a while. -John
Earth to ilyas the communist born but turned to ultra left
wing nut, what do you have to say about the original
statement on conflict of interest, and what do you have to
say about my professor's comment? -op
\_ [ actually I changed my mind. I won't even dignify this
phrasing with a reply. -- ilyas ]
\_ so, you're as suprised as the rest of us to see yourself
called an "ultra-left wingnut?" who knew?
\_ Earth to poster: read the thread again from the beginning.
\_ Wow, you've figured out that all media outlets are biased in one
way or another. Congrats.
\_ you're right. the difference is i think MOST media
outlets try to be balanced and fair. foxnews and co.
don't give a fuck.
\_ A bias you share is invisible. Conservatives tend to
find a lot of liberal publications (time.com is a good
example) pretty grating, but I bet you don't notice,
since it all seems reasonable to you. -- ilyas
\_ I think the bias in several popular mainstream
media outlets, like drudge, fox, wsj opinion
page, those fucks at the media research center,
is pretty NON invisible and far greater than
any secret jewish conspiracy at the nytimes.
find a lot of liberal publications (time.com is a good
example) pretty grating, but I bet you don't notice,
since it all seems reasonable to you. -- ilyas
\_ Look, I don't want to argue this again.
I ll just paste something laughable from
Reuters next time it comes up. What's your
response to the LA times "we ll dig dirt on
Arnie but not Davis" thing? -- ilyas
\_ And liberals tend to find a lot of conservative
publications (time.com is a good example) pretty
grating.
\_ I think Time is pretty mainstream but is definitely
'small-c' conservative in that it doesn't like to
rock the boat very much.
\_ I also agree that Time is mainstream, siding
with the current administration a little,
Democrat or Republican.
Democrat or Republican. CNN is like this too,
but one increment more.
I also find Krauthammer's essays in Time pretty
damn stupid, but then again I think the same
thing about Safire.
\-if you are writing in the motd, i assume you
have an SAT above 1000. why are you reading
TIME? krauthammer is a human-cockroach cross
breed. |
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