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The Coming Media Bailout

Cold Highway

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As I said before, thank God for alternate media sources.

This ominous development ought to scare the pants off of anyone concerned with the maintenance of a free society – and the continued existence of dissent in an increasingly conformist profession where "journalists" are often reduced to the status of mere stenographers as they eagerly communicate to the masses the words, wishes, wit, and wisdom of government officials.

The Coming Media Bailout by Justin Raimondo -- Antiwar.com
 
Well, I know media has biases. Fox is a total Republican channel and MSNBC is certainly Liberal. I happen to enjoy MSNBC because I agree with their perspective. CNN tends to be middle of the road, but I think that is shifting to the right on a daily basis. I'm not sure how you take bias out of media. That is a 19th century idea about there being some sort of objective truth out there that we must reach for and obtain. The idea that a human is not the culmination of their lives and opinions and that those opinions don't influence their reporting is just nonsense. Positivism died a long time ago, but right wing pundits continue to act like it is a viable philosophy that hasn't been proven wrong. This is also the case with Modernism. Now, I'm not saying that facts are not obtainable and that they don't give some sort of parameters on how to talk about certain events, but how one interprets those events are based in one's own worldview. Further, news organizations decide what to report on and what not to report on. That in itself is showing a bias. For example, Fox didn't broadcast a town hall the President was holding while the other news organizations showed it live. That says something about Fox and says something about the other news organizations. Choice is important.

I think that the guy in the article is too utopian in his idealism about what the media does or doesn't do. His article is ironically biased.
 
Well, I know media has biases. Fox is a total Republican channel and MSNBC is certainly Liberal. I happen to enjoy MSNBC because I agree with their perspective. CNN tends to be middle of the road, but I think that is shifting to the right on a daily basis. I'm not sure how you take bias out of media. That is a 19th century idea about there being some sort of objective truth out there that we must reach for and obtain. The idea that a human is not the culmination of their lives and opinions and that those opinions don't influence their reporting is just nonsense. Positivism died a long time ago, but right wing pundits continue to act like it is a viable philosophy that hasn't been proven wrong. This is also the case with Modernism. Now, I'm not saying that facts are not obtainable and that they don't give some sort of parameters on how to talk about certain events, but how one interprets those events are based in one's own worldview. Further, news organizations decide what to report on and what not to report on. That in itself is showing a bias. For example, Fox didn't broadcast a town hall the President was holding while the other news organizations showed it live. That says something about Fox and says something about the other news organizations. Choice is important.

I think that the guy in the article is too utopian in his idealism about what the media does or doesn't do. His article is ironically biased.



Choice is important, however one is not privy to choice in facts.


j-mac
 
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