again - I don't think not liking george bush makes you a liberal. I know I can't stand to listen "the news" any more, on any channel. Meanwhile there is this meme that CNN is "liberal" (the current Bad Word). Wolf Blitzer and Lou Dobbs? Really?
I just find this to not jive with my own experience. But just now I need to go do stuff I am getting paid to do. On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Scott Stroz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of your fellow liberals, Larry, presented that link as proof that there > is no bias in the media, but it includes the following: > > Excerpt: > "One surprise is the Wall Street Journal, which we find as the most liberal > of all 20 news outlets. We should first remind readers that this estimate > (as well as all other newspaper estimates) refers only to the news of the > Wall Street Journal; we omitted all data that came from its editorial page. > If we included data from the editorial page, surely it would appear more > conservative. " > > Excerpt: > "Most striking is that all but two of the outlets we examine are left of > center. Even more striking is that if we use the more liberal definition of > center (54.0)the one constructed from congressional scores from 1975-94it > is still the case that eighteen of twenty outlets are left of center." > > So, we have ABC news, the Washington post and a study (a link to which was > provided by someone who thinks there is no liberal bias in the media) > admitting/showing that there is indeed a liberal bias in the media, yet the > liberals on this list continue to deny that such bias exists. > > You guys are just too damned funny. > > On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm looking but it will take me a while to look through this. I am at >> work. But I personally do not agree. A couple of problems I see >> already -- this is four years old and "liberal" is defined as "not >> liking George Bush." But that's just the intro -- I'll see if it gets >> better. Presumably it does if Larry posted it.... >> >> On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Charlie Griefer >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> >> > ChuckG wrote: >> >> > 'cept back in another thread, Larry was kind enough to link to a study >> >> that >> >> > proved (and it's proof if it's a true study, right?) that the >> mainstream >> >> > media demonstrates a liberal bias. >> >> >> >> So you would say then that you have a difficult time finding unbiased >> >> news and information sources? >> >> >> >> Or would you say you have trouble finding sources biased in the way you >> >> prefer? >> >> >> > >> > I'd say the former. If someone actually wanted to find sources biased in >> > the way they prefer, there's Fox News for the right and CNN for the left. >> > >> > How about you? >> > >> > -- >> > I have failed as much as I have succeeded. But I love my life. I love my >> > wife. And I wish you my kind of success. >> > >> > >> > >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:279504 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
