Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Media bias finally given a number....

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Vern Green wrote:

> Thanks Shannon for pointing this out, but this is the biggest non-news 
> item of the past decade.
>
> Notice how no other media outlet has picked up on it? In my opinion that 
> is either
>
> A: Because this is really no news item since everyone knows it already
> B: They do not believe the results.
>
> Either way it really doesn't matter. The analysts will pick it apart as 
> flawed and life will continue as it always has. I was truly surprised to 
> see ABC Morning News as pretty much in the center.

But you can tell that the media have a liberal bias because you can just 
feel it, or because you are told over and over and over and over and over 
and over and over again by the conservative talk crew that that's just how 
it is.  "Everybody knows it."  Of course, that is just bullshit.  If you 
ask a liberal or socialist extremist about the news media they will go on 
for hours about how pro-business and conservative it is.  You can't tell 
if it's biased by looking at it and you can't tell by listening to the 
opinions of other like-minded people.  You have to study it.

Did you see Jon King's response?  Was there anything wrong with what Jon 
had to say?


> On a similar note, I would suggest everyone read Do as I say, not as I 
> do. It pretty much outlines a lot of the hypocrasies of the liberal 
> democrats in power today.
>
> Here's a breif overview:
>
> http://www.newsmax.com/adv/doasisay/

That is interesting.  If the book contains hard facts, I would be 
interested in it.  Reading some of the items on that page I have to wonder 
if they are correct and I don't know how I would check them.  I also don't 
know how anyone could find out things like the ethnicity/race of every one 
of Al Franken's employees for the past 15 years.  I also wonder how 
Moore's IRS forms were "viewed by Schweizer."  Did Bobby Kennedy really 
say that it is "not moral to profit from natural resources?"  What the 
heck does that mean?  If Ann Coulter says it's a good book, I really have 
to wonder about it.

By the way, except for Al Franken, I don't really like any of the people 
listed on that page.  I do like Al Franken though (but I don't agree with 
everything he says) and I would be unhappy if he has been inconsistent or 
hypcritical.  I also like Jimmy Carter, but he doesn't appear on that 
list.

Mike

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