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To: liberallarry
Only a journalist like Rush Limbaugh - a journalist who is dedicated to the truth rather than to a staying in the good graces of go-along-and-get-along Establishment journalism
That's hilarious since Rush presents himself as a partisan entertainer and always has.

Don't fool yourself. Being objective when reporting the news is probably beyond human capability. Some are much better than others, no doubt about it. But everyone is biased by self-interest and limited vision.

Exactly. Being objective is beyond human capability.

That being so, claiming to be objective is arrogant. And identifying yourself as an entertainer and as a partisan whose perspective has a name (and that name is not a virtue such as "moderate" or "objective") is actually an exercise of the virtue of humility.

Journalists who position themselves as being objective - or who claim objectivity outright - are the last ones you should beleive.


213 posted on 09/20/2005 11:04:17 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters but PR.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

Agreed.


217 posted on 09/20/2005 1:19:02 PM PDT by liberallarry
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

Agreed.


218 posted on 09/20/2005 1:19:35 PM PDT by liberallarry
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