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...
Via Verum Serum, via Cartago Delanda Est, via Rick.
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.
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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 @ 11:38I 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 @ 14:36I 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