House of Eratosthenes

The stories are tragically similar. The Bush incident took place six months ago in Albuquerque, and Victor Lozada Tirado lost his life in the Clinton motorcade in Dallas last week.

At this time, I can’t locate the name of the officer who was killed six months ago in Albuquerque. Mostly because, even with the Clinton headline an unknown future event and the contrast therefore missing, “Bush Motorcade Kills Cop” was a shockingly irresponsible headline on its own. (Also, it should be pointed out that in some sources Sen. Cpl. Tirado is identified as “a policewoman” so it would appear more details are needed here as well.)

Now to tell the truth, I’m really ignorant about how the public-at-large perceives this problem. That media bias exists and that it slants to the left, seems to be something that can’t be doubted by anyone except the insane. But that’s just the way I see it. I can’t speak for others.

I think most of us acknowledge the leftist tilt — this Zogby poll pegs the quotient at two-thirds — but handle the issue with an “out of sight, out of mind” approach. In other words, when we aren’t constantly reminded of it, we have a tendency to presume the problem has gone away, and even to rely on our media sources for balanced coverage the very next day. Presuming that, then, I predict most people becoming aware of these two “dueling headlines” will conclude that sometime over the last six months Time Magazine “grew up” and can now be relied-upon.

How adorable. How charmingly naive. I have to blatantly steal a line from Rachel Lucas and gush that I could just pinch their cute little cheeks, really, really hard.

I’f you’re going to steal, steal from the best!

As far as the media bias, conservatives and most centrists who pay any attention see that it leans left. However, centrists who don’t pay attention presume it’s balanced, and people on the left think it’s all controled by “Corporate-Corporate-Halliburton!” (my generic leftist sputter I use to immitate what they sound like) and is in the back pocket of greedy right-wing greedy greedies.
- philmon | 02/26/2008 @ 11:38
I wonder if it isn’t more like denial. Most people would like to believe that the Fourth Estate is objective, so they do, and voila, problem solved.

If we can’t trust the news to bring us the news, then it becomes much more difficult to assimilate information and make rational decisions. A lot of people just don’t want to work that hard.
- chunt31854 | 02/26/2008 @ 14:36
I believe the officer’s name is Germaine Casey. He was killed in August of last year.

My take on the bias is that money maintains it. Somebody is watching/reading NBC, Time, CNN, NYtimes, huffypoo, and herr ubermann. There is an audience for BDS, and the obamanator slyly exploits that with his ‘wish in one hand & s**t in the other’ rhetoric of the imagination.

You always get more of what you pay for, and the media is a willing accomplice.

Nice piece. I linked over at my place.
- locomotivebreath1901 | 02/27/2008 @ 10:51

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