Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
In a crushing body blow to the pushers of the so-called “Fox Effect,” which claims the conservative media is dragging the left into the center, UCLA political science professor Tim Groseclose in Left Turn claims that “all” mainstream news outlets have a liberal bias in their reporting that makes even moderate organizations appear out of the mainstream and decidedly right-wing to news consumers who are influenced by the slant.
“Fox News is clearly more conservative than ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and National Public Radio. Some will conclude that ‘therefore, this means that Fox News has a conservative bias,'” he writes in an advance copy provided to Washington Whispers. “Instead, maybe it is centrist, and possibly even left-leaning, while all the others are far left. It’s like concluding that six-three is short just because it is short compared to professional basketball players.”
Sort of a Dunning-Kruger effect in reverse. As it’s been pointed out many-a-time here, when you go through your entire day leaning left, you come up to building or a signpost that happens to be properly aligned, the perception is going to be that the structure is leaning right.
Hat tip to Boortz.
The author developed a calculation to figure out the “political quotient” to find the bias of media outlets and the average slant of an organization.
Groseclose opens his book quoting a well-known poll in which Washington correspondents declared that they vote Democratic 93 percent to 7 percent, while the nation is split about 50-50. As a result, he says, most reporters write with a liberal filter. “Using objective, social-scientific methods, the filtering prevents us from seeing the world as it actually is. Instead, we see only a distorted version of it. It is as if we see the world through a glass—a glass that magnifies the facts that liberals want us to see and shrinks the facts that conservatives want us to see.”
Yes…we’ve noticed this part, as well. The fektoid, or a fact whose veracity would survive a skeptical inspection while its relevance would not.
One of the most powerful and unaccountable ways to inject editorial punditry into the news pages, where it does not belong, is by means of the decision of what to include in the first place. What to leave in, what to leave out, what to repeat interminably. Absolutely no accountability to this whatsoever. Hey, we left it in because “it’s news.” In fact, if we don’t feel like telling you who made the call, we don’t have to.
Abu Ghraib was the ultimate fektoid. Now, for the thirtieth day in a row, our top news stories — hey, did you know there’s a prison called Abu Ghraib? Guess what happened there!
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- House of Eratosthenes | 06/21/2011 @ 07:15Media bias is my favorite thing ever. It’s such a perfect illustration of the “no enemies to the left” spirit of modern liberalism.
The mainstream right tries hard to distance itself from extremists and loons. The left just… doesn’t mention theirs. Because, after all, their hearts are in the right place. I defy anyone to find me a Tea Party rally sign half as offensive as the stuff that routinely shows up on Zombietime… but none of that stuff ever gets mentioned, even though it’s “news” by any rational measure. Like, say, the abuse and even death threats directed at Sarah Palin, as revealed by her emails the press were so eager to get their hands on. How in the world is threatening the life of a national political candidate not news, unless you’re so far in the bag for one side that you’ll do anything and everything to ignore it?
- Severian | 06/21/2011 @ 14:59