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

["Ross, Matthew" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> Fox News has half the intelligence of NPR.

Do they? They're making quite a bit more money and being just as ludicrous. Just because one is loud and obnoxious, while the other is quiet and eloquent, doesn't mean one is more intelligent than the other.

> 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.

Actually, it's a case of "he who yells loudest." We hear from the liberals in most every group, but we don't hear from the conservatives. Read up on what the word conservative means, aside from just the political ramifications of the philosophy.
 
> 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.

That would be true of anyone who sticks to a single media outlet. Your local cable has your major news networks in one "clump" of channels (32-35). When I care to watch the news, I flip through those and see what points they agree on. I really like the tickers they've added a few years ago, they've made it easy to get the news without having to listen to their dribble about rescued puppies and whatnot.

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