Great Debate#9
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But Steve Rendall, a senior analyst for Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, another media watchdog group, said the press has done a poor job covering many social issues, including race and homosexuality.
Rendall cited a study conducted by his organization that showed reporters in the nation's capital lean to the right when covering many issues.
When you are standing on the left field foul line, everybody looks like they are playing in right field.
I don't buy it. The Media definately doesn't ignore far left and moderate viewpoints. The Media only ignores conservative viewpoints. That much is evidenced by the issues that the Media pushes on an on-going basis. Issues like Gay Rights, Gun Control, and Radical Environmentalism that are the hallmark of the far left!
Just to be clear, this organization, Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, which is stated here to be a media watchdog group, features books by Noam Chomsky on its website.
Go to their website to see how fair and accurate they are.
Also note how old their articles are. It appears to be a website and not much more. How nice of the author of this piece to have gotten a couple quotes from them, just to be fair...
"I'm scared for the state of democracy in this country in terms of how the press interacts," Kuypers said. "They are, in my opinion, an anti-democratic institution because they stifle alternative voices and paint an incredibly inaccurate picture of issues and ideas."
The First Amendment provides that the newspapers and magazines and books are not to be jusdged on "fairness and accuracy" by the government but by we-the-people individually. And considering that the editorial page as a repository of explicit opinion did not even exist when the First Amendment was ratified, it would be ridulous to argue that putting opinion on the front page is some kind of infraction of the Constitution.The Constitutional problem of journalism lies strictly, IMHO, in government-licensed--in clear evasion of the First Amendment--Broadcast Journalism. By licensing communication in the airwaves, the government takes on the role of censor of those it does not license to broadcast. It is that which makes some citizens more equal than others in political speech.
The Internet is the poor man's soap box, with global reach. The newspapers, granted, have great influence and are politically homogeneous--but that is not de jure but de facto. Outlaw broadcasting of politics, root and branch (political ads, who would actually miss them? Broadcast journalism as well. That would hit talk radio as well but then--what is talk radio but "equal time" vs broadcast journalism?).
They have the newspapers, and we have the internet. Let the Internet and the newspapers duke it out. That's the only principled approach.
The book, "Press Bias and Politics: How the Media Frame Controversial Issues," is a compilation of Kuypers' research on six prominent speeches between 1995 and 2000. He first obtained copies of the speeches and then compared their objectives with their coverage in the news media.
"I did not honestly believe the level of bias and misrepresentation would be as deep and terrible as it was," he said.
Anyone who actually approaches the subject with an open mind will come to the conclusion above. This explains why the Internet belongs to conservatives and Libertarians.You can make a liberal web site, and you can put on a liberal talk show host--but in either formant the arrogance of socialism gets exposed to too many penetrating questions, so you can't draw an audience with either.
What's Singapore Yank's new handle?
It's easy to spot, even when it's a conservative. Trouble is, it's almost never a conservative bias. But with the best reporters, you can't ever tell.
Author Jim A. Kuypers, a senior lecturer at the Ivy League college, . . .
This guy better join Pariahs 'R' Us. He's definitely slipped off the tenure track, and he'll henceforth be treated with the same deference that NOW shows to Phyllis Schlafly.
I, for one, refuse to swaller this until corroborative studies have been made.
I CANNOT bring myself to believe that OUR MEDIA holds ANY kind of bias, especially a liberal leftist one.
[dwoibeedwoibeedwoibeedwoibeedwoibee]
(That's me dwoibing my finger across my lips.)
Now it really IS time for a shot or three...