MaxedOutMama
Friday, May 20, 2005
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No Oil For Pacifists just goes to town on the press bias issue. This is comprehensive, to say the least. There's something here for everyone to read or argue against. I think I've already expressed my opinion.
My favorite link of all is Nat's Nab, in which Hentoff strips the varnish off several NY Times editorials on judges by showing how they have misrepresented the facts. He says he has contacted the ombudsman for the "paper of record", but never been able to get a correction printed. He cites the NY Times "disdain for basic research" and observes:
My favorite link of all is Nat's Nab, in which Hentoff strips the varnish off several NY Times editorials on judges by showing how they have misrepresented the facts. He says he has contacted the ombudsman for the "paper of record", but never been able to get a correction printed. He cites the NY Times "disdain for basic research" and observes:
Editorials in The New York Times are the plenary voice of that newspaper. Accordingly, editorial writers should be as accountable as the Times' reporters—when the editorial sages ignore the facts in a story and deeply sully someone's reputation.It's not just the NY Times, though. A lot of papers do this. Local papers are far more independent, which may derive from the findings of a NY Times survey cited by NOFP:
When asked who would be a better president, the journalists from outside the Beltway picked Mr. Kerry 3 to 1, and the ones from Washington favored him 12 to 1. Those results jibe with previous surveys over the past two decades showing that journalists tend to be Democrats, especially the ones based in Washington.The survey is hilarious - you should read it. It coyly suggests that journalists might vote for the president they'd rather cover, rather than the president they think would do the better job. Uh-huh.
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It coyly suggests that journalists might vote for the president they'd rather cover, rather than the president they think would do the better job.
Oh my goodness. I never thought of it that way. That is a very interesting theory!
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Oh my goodness. I never thought of it that way. That is a very interesting theory!
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