07-30-2009, 01:26 PM
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Referee
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Over the hill
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Originally Posted by Gozer
So you're ok with liberal bias as long as there is no conservative bias?
edit: damn, Vlad beat me to it
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Exactly. If by "conservative bias" you mean "giving Glenn Beck a show"--then yes, I'm opposed to conservative bias.
If conservative bias actually means George F. Will, P.J. O'Rourke and Peggy Noonan, I'm a little more okay with it. But in practice it means Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Lou Dobbs and all the members of the ######bag patrol. You can put Keith Olbermann in that category too; though he doesn't bother me nearly as much (for obvious reasons...  ), he still represents precisely what's wrong with American news media: too much slant, too much spin, too much bias, too much polarization, not enough content.
I'll say it again: we have it pretty good up here.
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07-30-2009, 01:39 PM
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#83
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Sec 216
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When CNN Headline News has their primetime program as Showbiz Tonight and Fox "News" has O'Reilly then you know we have it good here.
I mean seriously, Showbiz Tonight! and a friggin news channel as their main primetime news program! What a joke.
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07-30-2009, 01:41 PM
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#84
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
Exactly. If by "conservative bias" you mean "giving Glenn Beck a show"--then yes, I'm opposed to conservative bias.
If conservative bias actually means George F. Will, P.J. O'Rourke and Peggy Noonan, I'm a little more okay with it. But in practice it means Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Lou Dobbs and all the members of the ######bag patrol. You can put Keith Olbermann in that category too; though he doesn't bother me nearly as much (for obvious reasons...  ), he still represents precisely what's wrong with American news media: too much slant, too much spin, too much bias, too much polarization, not enough content.
I'll say it again: we have it pretty good up here.
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That's how I see it too.
There seems to be an extra meaness and wilful blindness in the Fox commentators compared to the MSNBC people. It's more entertainment than news on either side.
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07-30-2009, 02:08 PM
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#85
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
Exactly. If by "conservative bias" you mean "giving Glenn Beck a show"--then yes, I'm opposed to conservative bias.
If conservative bias actually means George F. Will, P.J. O'Rourke and Peggy Noonan, I'm a little more okay with it. But in practice it means Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Lou Dobbs and all the members of the ######bag patrol. You can put Keith Olbermann in that category too; though he doesn't bother me nearly as much (for obvious reasons...  ), he still represents precisely what's wrong with American news media: too much slant, too much spin, too much bias, too much polarization, not enough content.
I'll say it again: we have it pretty good up here.
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It's easier to like if it generally agrees with your political views. I do agree with you re FOX - I can't watch that stuff, even though it's supposedly "right" wing. Really, nobody represents me - fiscally conservative, socially liberal - except perhaps the Economist. But on TV, I find the "lefty" stuff lame and naive, and the supposed "right" stuff moronic and over-the-top. I guess that's why the GOP can't elect anyone in the NE - hardly anybody in the party speaks for "Rockafeller" (sp?) Republicans...
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07-30-2009, 02:11 PM
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#86
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Had an idea!
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Originally Posted by VladtheImpaler
It's easier to like if it generally agrees with your political views. I do agree with you re FOX - I can't watch that stuff, even though it's supposedly "right" wing. Really, nobody represents me - fiscally conservative, socially liberal - except perhaps the Economist. But on TV, I find the "lefty" stuff lame and naive, and the supposed "right" stuff moronic and over-the-top. I guess that's why the GOP can't elect anyone in the NE - hardly anybody in the party speaks for "Rockafeller" (sp?) Republicans...
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Me and you both.
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