Hope this finds you feeling better Larry //Snip In what? Compare the New York Times to the Washington Times. The WT > paper is unabashedly conservative, and has been shown many times to > have slanted its reporting. While accussed, the same has not been > proven for the New York Times. Only in its editorial section does the > NY Times show itself to be a centerist newspaper. //Snip
Oh, okay, so Times editorial page editor Howell "the Reagan years oppressed me" Raines is a centrist? And Paul Krugman, Frank Rich, Bob Herbert, Mo Dowd, Anthony Lewis, Tom Friedman, Nick Kristof, and Bill Keller are all <ahem> "centrists"? Any reasonable analysis of the Times's editorial page shows that the only "check" to the aforementioned leftists is Bill Safire, a self-proclaimed civil libertarian. And all one needs to know about the NYT and "centrism" can be learned by the way Dowd recently "retracted" the lie she printed about this president and the presidential custom of laying of a wreath at the Confederate Monument. And when the Times's national political correspondent, the openly gay Rick Berke (not to be confused with the Times's white house correspondent, the openly gay Frank Bruni), crows that "literally three-quarters of the people deciding what's on the front page [of the Times] are not-so-closeted homosexuals," it doesn't even HINT at the possibility of a liberal bias to the Times's coverage of issues such as, oh, say, gay rights? The Times is a centrist paper? The Washington Times is conservative. And it is. Just like the NYT is liberal. The Washington Times, however, gives the beltway a much-needed (and much-demanded) counterweight to the liberal Washington Post. It's also important to note that the Times's circulation is less than ONE-TENTH of either the NY Times or the Washington Post. Fact is, the only TV network that currently pays ANY attention to what the Times says is Fox News, while all the other networks take their editorial cues directly from the NY Times and Washington Post. Larry ask yourself the following questions: If the New York Times et al are so "centrist," then why on earth is there even a DEMAND for "conservative" newspapers and TV news networks? Why on earth is Fox News kicking the crap out of CNN in the ratings game? And why on earth does there not seem to be any demand for "liberal" newspapers and TV news networks? Could it be that the nation's liberal audiences are quite content with the degree of liberal bias already present in the major news outlets? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
