On 4/21/2011 2:02 PM, Hawke wrote:
On 4/21/2011 4:53 AM, David R. Birch wrote:
On 4/21/2011 1:12 AM, Hawke wrote:

What's wrong with fair and balanced?


Fair and balanced is very good. What's bad is when people claim
to be fair and balanced and instead act biased. Reverend Moon's
newspaper, the Washington Times, is undoubtedly a biased
newspaper. Fox is not fair and balanced either. So the wrong is
claiming something they are not. If only they were fair and
balanced we'd all like them. As it is now only right wing people
do.

So the problem is that the right leaning media claims to be fair
and balanced when they aren't, while the left leaning media don't
bother to pretend to be fair and balanced.

Got it.

David


Well, at least you're getting the idea of what honesty is. Not
pretending to be something you're not is one good example of it. It's
true that you just don't hear the "liberal" media going around
saying they are neutral. They at least acknowledge a left leaning
position. Conversely, Fox pretends they are not a right wing station.
With people like Neil Cavuto, O'Reilly, Hannity, and Beck as your
main prime time line up you'd have to be a liar to say your network
isn't completely committed to the right wing agenda.

Yet the lefty media seem to spend a lot of time complaining about the
righty media not being fair and balanced, and imply by doing so that the
lefty media are.


As you righties like to point out, the mainstream media is all made
up of liberal people so it's no wonder they are biased to the left.

Sorry, guy, but you establishment lefties are quite a bit to the right
of me.

Just be fair and admit the same thing about Fox.

Can't say, I've never actually watched Fox network news, the local Fox
station doesn't carry it.

I watch Katie Couric because I guess someone should, alas, soon to be
replaced by another newsclown.


Everyone working there, or damn near everyone working there is a
registered republican or a libertarian.

You say that like you consider libertarians to to be conservative. Are
you really that ignorant?

I'm sorry, I forgot for a moment who I was responding to. Yes, you are
that ignorant.

So by the same logic that makes CBS liberal that makes Fox right
wing. Just admit it and be done with it.

That would require me to care.

But they keep pretending they are "fair and balanced". Which is
bull****.

Of course, what else do you expect from the left/right media?

David