I didn't actually say that it agreed or disagreed with me. I said that the report is likely to come to the conclusions that the group wants it to have.
If I say "I believe in X, lets make a study to look for X", chances are good that your study will conclude that X exists. Not 100% certain of course, but when you build the desired conclusion into the premise of a study, it isn't really an unbiased study. As for my own belief, I do think there is a bias in popular media, but I don't tend to think that it is a liberal/conservative bias so much as a corporate bias. I've stated this quite clearly before, but I think that most of the popular media organizations are out there to make money. Investigative reporting tends to be expensive and often times doesn't yield a great deal of reward for the effort. Its a drain on the bottom line. So fewer and fewer people are allowed to do it and the decisions of corporate higher-ups become more influencial. I do think that you have some explicit political bias on the part of, say, Fox News, but I don't think that it is quite so much because of raw ideology on the part of Murdoch, but rather because there is a market for it. They've tried it on the other side with Air America which seems to have been less than outrageously successful. You also see it happening to some extent on MSNBC with Olbermann and Maddow going back to back now. That seems to be being more successful. At the end of the day though I think that the modern popular media landscape is shaped more by corporate interests than ideological interests and I think that the reporting reflects that. Judah On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Scott Stroz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So because they don/t agree with you, the study has to be flawed? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:277065 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
