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Musicmystery -> RE: Hate Palin, Love Palin (2/7/2010 9:02:19 AM)
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Yeah. I'm sure Muse sees straight reporting, that might pander to the corporate interest a bit. NPR will have the real story, of course.
Have you been a mentalist long?
Do you do shows?
I'm saying Sanity (and you) are predispose to see bias. I also didn't say it was biased or not.
I asked whether it was true. Consistently, that question is dodged.
So one likely scenario is that it IS true.
An analysis of news reporting, for me, would go far beyond bias. The major problem with many stories, absolutely including AP, sometimes including NPR, is that they are badly written. This, to you, will immediately scream bias.
Look for something consistently and you'll see it there. Ask any conspiracy theorist.
When I gave you a chance to show that bias, you first complained about the "rules," and when I loosened them, complained about "changing the rules." When I showed you the problem with the study you quoted, that issued was dropped.
Is there biased reporting? Of course! Are reporters as unbiased as they think? Of course not. But they generally (at least in actual news organizations, which are in decline) are better trained to avoid bias than the public.
Usually, when someone complains of bias, the real intent is that it's not biased their way.
That seems to be the case here. The lede may be poorly written. It may display the reporter's thinking. But it appears to be true.
Nor do I think it's any particularly damning sentence. Rallies are always big on enthusiasm, short on ideas. It's when people believe it's about ideas, as the tea party does, that it's worth a comment.
And yes, that's my take. But then, I'm an essayist, not a reporter.
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