Presidential Election Political Smackdown FFA

[Charles Dean]

This thread isn't nearly as much fun now that everyone knows Palin is an idiot. But it's still some fun to post the latest stuff to share.

The latest, apparently Couric was annoying. Pesky non-Fox News media.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/0 ... 31655.html

[Charles Dean]

this pretty much sums it up.

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[Charles Dean]

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[Charles Dean]

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[Alan]

Come on. Palin doesn't engage in ad-hominem attacks. She doesn't even know what that means.

[WestSideBilly]

[uwp]

Or maybe...

[Charles Dean]

OK, all of you guys are funny. In other news, apparently freedom of the press is now a privilege, as opposed to a constitutional right:

"As we send our young men and women overseas in a war zone to fight for democracy and freedoms, including freedom of the press, we've really got to have a mutually beneficial relationship here with those fighting the freedom of the press, and then the press, though not taking advantage and exploiting a situation, perhaps they would want to capture and abuse the privilege. We just want truth, we want fairness, we want balance."

A quote from our fave Alaskan
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch ... lin-a.html?

[rose-colored-coolaid]

I'll add to your quote, that I find the people who most frequently decry press bias are most often the ones who do not actually know what media bias is. Further, Palin does not understand what media bias is, among the things she misunderstands.

Just to clear this up for people, bias is not when the press spends more time on one "side" of an issue than another. E.g. if there's an organization called "People for a Flat Earth", their position is so ludicrous that it is not biased for the media to ignore their position when discussing the spherical nature of the earth (in photographs from space for instance). In other words, if your deeply held beliefs are nuts (I won't get into what constitutes that), and the media appears to "disrespect" those beliefs, it means you are biased...not the media.

This is how you occasionally hear people exclaim that the only unbiased news is Fox. Not that other media is completely unbiased, but Fox is clearly biased in a manner that closely relates to the deeply held bias of a subset of our population. I will say, it's a savvy marketing move by Fox News, picking a dissatisfied group and giving them what they want, even if there is no journalistic integrity in the position...

So, here's some examples that run counter to what people normally associate as bias. If the media spends more time on Obama than McCain (June), it's probably not media bias if the difference is explained by Obama running a more newsworthy campaign. If the media gives equal time to global warming opponents as it does to proponents, that is media bias, as the evidence strongly favors one position over the other.

[Charles Dean]

It's funny about Fox News, because I don't have a problem with editorializing news like they do. That's totally fine. What I have a problem with is them pretending like they're not editorializing and that they are some sort of great bastion of truth. That is what is dishonest.

News has everything to do with ratings and advertising dollars nowadays anyway. News agencies report on what will clear out the newsstands or get people to watch them on television.

[deejayoh]

I'm with the "team of mavericks".

Wait, isn't that an oxymoron?

there's no "team" in maverick - but there is an "I" and a "me"!