Media bias.
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angledgeNoam Chomsky is a professor at MIT and a progressive political commentator. In his book Interventions, he said:
"...the opinion pages of daily newspapers are yet another corner of the corporate media universe where right-wing voices dominate, and the general debate extends from the far-right to the center, occasional exceptions notwithstanding."
David Kuo was the second-in-command at the White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives. In his book Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction, he said:
"The mainstream media takes a lot of flack, some deserved, for being liberally biased. But that's nothing compared to its antireligious bias. Most reporters continue to think that evangelical Christians are from another planet and most couldn't name one as a friend or acquaintance. A few years ago, a New York Times reporter commented on President George W. Bush's use of the phrase 'people should take the log out of their own eye before taking the speck out of their neighbor's eye.' He said it was an odd version of the pot calling the kettle black. It was a reference to Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, arguably the most famous speech in history."
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Where do you get your news?
"...the opinion pages of daily newspapers are yet another corner of the corporate media universe where right-wing voices dominate, and the general debate extends from the far-right to the center, occasional exceptions notwithstanding."
David Kuo was the second-in-command at the White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives. In his book Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction, he said:
"The mainstream media takes a lot of flack, some deserved, for being liberally biased. But that's nothing compared to its antireligious bias. Most reporters continue to think that evangelical Christians are from another planet and most couldn't name one as a friend or acquaintance. A few years ago, a New York Times reporter commented on President George W. Bush's use of the phrase 'people should take the log out of their own eye before taking the speck out of their neighbor's eye.' He said it was an odd version of the pot calling the kettle black. It was a reference to Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, arguably the most famous speech in history."
[Poll #1141600]
Where do you get your news?
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Date: 2008-02-20 09:43 pm (UTC)When you put up this question, I thought about something that was asked of Jon Stewart once. Someone asked him if he'd be making fun of a presidency that wasn't a Bush-ite one and he said [and I paraphrase], "Sure! If they screw up, we sure as hell are going to point it out because funny is funny, no matter where it comes from." He also said that even though making fun of the Bush administration is awesome for joke fodder, he'd rather not do it because it means that the administration of the country is a joke and that's not funny at all.
And this may also be sad and indicative of the generational gap, but I get most of my news from whatever people in my LJ or other bloggish groups are upset and/or talking about. I don't look for news stories on my own, but I think I'm relatively informed because people I trust are very relatively informed and since their interests dovetail mine a lot, I know I'm covered for the most part.