Author Topic: The Media... Left or Right? (Read 1683 times)

Sandman · « **Reply #30 on:** September 25, 2003, 01:07:41 PM »

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Originally posted by ra
Can you remember any other memorial service where people were chanting political slogans? I can't. The fact that some of the dead were not public figures made it even less appropriate. The event was hijacked by partisans, even if not everyone there was interested in partisanship.

ra

Well... Wellstone was a politician. It wasn't just something that he did for a living. It's something that he lived to do. You can hardly separate this from his eulogy.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #31 on:** September 25, 2003, 01:08:30 PM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
. I bet no one actually watched the whole thing on C-span.

I watched enough to realize it wasn't a Eulogy, but a political rally instead.

ra · « **Reply #32 on:** September 25, 2003, 01:25:40 PM »

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Originally posted by Sandman_SBM
Well... Wellstone was a politician. It wasn't just something that he did for a living. It's something that he lived to do. You can hardly separate this from his eulogy.

He lived for being a politician? That's a scarey thought. He pretended to be a humble teacher who just wanted to make the country a better place for the little guy.

You shouldn't speak at a memorial service if you can't separate the memory of the dead from an upcoming election.

muckmaw · « **Reply #33 on:** September 25, 2003, 01:32:28 PM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
I watched enough to realize it wasn't a Eulogy, but a political rally instead.

Did they stick a little "Go Democrats" flag in the corpse's stiff hand?

I'd vote DEM if they had the balls to do that!

Momus-- · « **Reply #34 on:** September 25, 2003, 02:00:49 PM »

This liberal bias thing is a convenient myth; a useful piece of reverse psychology.

The whole thing is a clever smoke-and-mirrors trick in much the same way as is the equally bogus left vs right proposition that dominates modern political discourse.

ra · « **Reply #35 on:** September 25, 2003, 02:02:17 PM »

midnight Target · « **Reply #36 on:** September 25, 2003, 02:05:14 PM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
I watched enough to realize it wasn't a Eulogy, but a political rally instead.

Who and what did you personally see?

BB Gun · « **Reply #37 on:** September 25, 2003, 02:10:55 PM »

Has anybody here read "Bias"?

BB

miko2d · « **Reply #38 on:** September 25, 2003, 02:19:59 PM »

There is left socialist media and there is right socialist media.

There is also independent and correct media written by smart people with knowlege of history, sociology and economics. There is not much of it - comparatively, but how much does one really need to be educated and kept current? Whatever is there is more then can be read in a few hours a day anyway.

Same as with the right books or schools of knowlege - it takes a while to find the right ones it but once found, one is set for life.

miko

Rude · « **Reply #39 on:** September 25, 2003, 02:38:03 PM »

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Originally posted by miko2d
There is left socialist media and there is right socialist media.

There is also independent and correct media written by smart people with knowlege of history, sociology and economics. There is not much of it - comparatively, but how much does one really need to be educated and kept current? Whatever is there is more then can be read in a few hours a day anyway.

Same as with the right books or schools of knowlege - it takes a while to find the right ones it but once found, one is set for life.

miko

Please point us to the independent and correct media.

Mini D · « **Reply #40 on:** September 25, 2003, 02:45:07 PM »

The really sad thing is that the media is being mistaken for historians.

MiniD

midnight Target · « **Reply #41 on:** September 25, 2003, 02:47:48 PM »

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Anne Coulter - "I'm not making that up!" she declares during lunch while pounding home yet another argument. Then, never one to doubt herself, she settles the matter with head-spinning proof: "It's in my book!"

miko2d · « **Reply #42 on:** September 25, 2003, 03:03:25 PM »

She probably means "A detailed proof with the references to the sources is in my book."

You do not expect a to person start spewing bibliography and extsnsive quotes from memory during an interview or have her book ready and read it verbatim.

Ann Coulter is nothing else but an author of some articles and a couple of books. She is not a politician, radio personality, etc.
Anyone who interviews her is expected to have read her books or at least to be ready to read them afterwarfds.

miko

DmdNexus · « **Reply #43 on:** September 25, 2003, 03:17:28 PM »

The media is conservative.

Reporters are liberal, however their editors are conservative.
Editors choose which stories get published and the coverage.

Fox news is owned by Rudolph Murdoc who is a conservative.
He also owns magazines and newspapers.

Al Frankin's new book "Lies, and the lying liers who tell them", pretty much gives the facts, with citations of legite souces, he pretty much spells out with researchable verifyable PROOF that the media has a Conservative to the RIGHT slant.

BB Gun · « **Reply #44 on:** September 25, 2003, 04:57:47 PM »

DMD,

did *you* read BIAS?

C'mon guys, its a quick read.

BB