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There's always a point of view.

Say you are a statehouse correspondent. There is a scandal in your state about illegal kickbacks by contractors to wives of certain officials in the administration. The Governor is giving a speech to the business council in the largest city in the state, and he doesn't mention the scandal. He is announcing a new industrial bond program to bring in a leading medical device manufacturing facility.

You have the chance to ask a question. Do you ask about the medical device facility (his agenda) or do you ask about the scandal that's on everyone's mind?

If you don't have the chance to ask a question, do you mention the scandal in your article? To you it hung over the entire event. Yet neither the governor nor any other speaker mentioned it.

There's always a point of view.

What the internet, through weblogs and Free Republic, does, is to give those who believe that their own viewpoint wasn't expressed, the opportunity to reframe the issues. Because FR, in particular, has such a broad base of informed readers, there is a very good level of factual accuracy, even as there is wholesale revision of the opinions and attitudes reflected in the news media being criticized.

This is the most exciting change in journalism in my lifetime.

There's always a point of view.

Eggzakly! And, unless I'm mistaken, it was the Marxists with their class view of society who first pointed it out. Yep, there is always a point of view, always a bias of some sort or another. What's troubling though is this:

"In January, Pew Internet found that 67 percent of Americans prefer getting news from sources that don't have a political point of view, while 25 percent prefer news sources that share their point of view."

It tells me (and not the first time) that most people in this country have swallowed hook line and sinker the idea, promoted for many decades by the Big Media, that there are "sources that don't have a political point of view". NFG!

Sometimes there is truth, and sometimes there are lies. Why do we give these bastards the pretence of equality and respect, that their stupidity and lies are just "another point of view"? It isn't. It is an interested tendentious ideology founded on invincible self importance and contempt for their own country and its citizens. This is not "just another point of view", any more than arson is just another profession.