http://doughaslam.com/2007/06/18/responsibility-of-the-audience/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=responsibility-of-the-audience Gischeleman: "To Create With the Mind" Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:01:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://doughaslam.com/2007/06/18/responsibility-of-the-audience/comment-page-1/#comment-168 Doug Haslam Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:23:23 +0000 http://doughaslam.com/?p=89#comment-168 But is NPR- or Fox news for that matter-- actually biased? By my accounting, yes, but you need to go deeper than networks, to reporters,writers, even types of stories. Do you believe Bill O'Reilly's claims that he is not a hard-line right-winger? I do, after listening to him for a bit. And don't just blindly follow claims of "liberal bias" in the mass media. you can find "news" stories that swing both ways in one paper, such as the New York Times. I came away amazed after reading analyses of presidential race coverage in 2000 and 2004. I decided that the decision to pile on or take down a candidate was based not on ideology, but the availability, even the size, of the target. For media criticism I have been a big fan, especially in election cycles, of Bob Somerby of the <a href="http://www.thedailyhowler.com" rel="nofollow">Daily Howler</a>. He tends toward the liberal side, but that is far from an absolute. But is NPR- or Fox news for that matter– actually biased? By my accounting, yes, but you need to go deeper than networks, to reporters,writers, even types of stories.
Do you believe Bill O’Reilly’s claims that he is not a hard-line right-winger? I do, after listening to him for a bit.
And don’t just blindly follow claims of “liberal bias” in the mass media. you can find “news” stories that swing both ways in one paper, such as the New York Times. I came away amazed after reading analyses of presidential race coverage in 2000 and 2004. I decided that the decision to pile on or take down a candidate was based not on ideology, but the availability, even the size, of the target.
For media criticism I have been a big fan, especially in election cycles, of Bob Somerby of the <a href=”http://www.thedailyhowler.com” rel=”nofollow”>Daily Howler</a>. He tends toward the liberal side, but that is far from an absolute.

]]> http://doughaslam.com/2007/06/18/responsibility-of-the-audience/comment-page-1/#comment-167 Chris Brogan... Wed, 20 Jun 2007 04:40:19 +0000 http://doughaslam.com/?p=89#comment-167 This is the lesson I didn't know I needed to learn until this last year. I'm not kidding. I understood that Fox News was biased, but I never thought NPR was. See? It's when you think you see the reveal that the true magic trick sneaks past you. This is the lesson I didn’t know I needed to learn until this last year. I’m not kidding. I understood that Fox News was biased, but I never thought NPR was. See? It’s when you think you see the reveal that the true magic trick sneaks past you.

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