Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Fox News vs. NPR (was "MoveOn.org")

["Christian M. Cepel" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I also listen to both, and pick a middle of the road.. they are both 
biased, and somewhere else is the truth.  I also used to balance KMFC in 
with that before fox and TheEagle were around....   of course there was 
never much news, and they had lunatics like Penna Dexter and Kirby 
Anderson and such who are ready to embrace every single conspiracy 
theorist nut that called in, even if it contradicted the conspiracy they 
had embraced on the program the night before.

But regarding the intellectual elite.   BS.   Its pseudo-intellectualism 
and it's endemic to academia.  The only ones who considers them to be 
intellectuals are themselves, and the rest of the world sniggers behind 
their hands and thinks... "whatever".  NPR is just full of itself.   
Just like Rush is full of himself.  Apples and oranges, but all fruit.

Mike Miller wrote:

>On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Woodsmall, Ryan (IATS) wrote:
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>>Maybe because matt doesn't call us "libby circle jerkers."  Keep up the
>>name-calling, though - it really does make your point even more valid!
>>You're a shoe-in when O'Reilly retires.
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>Another thing for the pro-Fox News group to consider:
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>When comparing Fox News to NPR, do you really think you're dealing with
>comparable quality in terms of writing and reporting?  You should think
>about this.  Fox News has half the intelligence of NPR.
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>Interesting question:  Why does it seem that the intellectual elite of our
>country (and the *world*, I would say)) is Liberal and not Conservative?
>Is it because they are smart enough to know better?  Is it because of some
>kind of self-perpetuating bias in academe?  I think it's a little of both.
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>I'm the kind of person who will listen patiently to both NPR and Fox News.
>I probably seem like a "libby" to the far Right and like a moderate to the
>far Left.  I can live with that.  People who listen only to Fox News and
>can't stand NPR are just not getting a full picture of what's really
>happening and what people are thinking and feeling about the major issues.
>
>Mike
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