Sunday, October 22, 2017

Put on your surprised face. 

NPR executive discovers that liberal media bias exists.
Posted by Peter Sean at 8:06 AM
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3 comments:

Toby said...

Put on your surprised face.

Conservative Blogger, excuse me, Libertarian Conservative Blogger, Peter Bradley, is unable to understand that everyone and everything is biased. Therefore, he fails to adjust accordingly.

9:00 AM
Peter Sean said...

And where did you pick up the notion that I don't understand bias?

Particularly after I identify my bias in the heading of the blog?

On the other hand, I've spent 40 years hearing leftists deny media bias, so a frank admission is refreshing.

In addition, NPR is tax funded. You may think that tax money should be used to support your political ideology, but other people are allowed to disagree, arent't they?

But let's see if you can be forthright about your bias:

1. Does the media have a leftist political bias?

2. Does a leftist bias affect how and what news gets reported?

9:39 AM
Anonymous said...

Hmmm, I consume news from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and about 20 different periodicals and their websites ranging from the National Review to Mother Jones. Every single one is bias. That's not a glitch, it a design feature. I saw the "NPR Executive" you refer to interviewed tonight. The gist of his book and his world view after immersing himself in conservative America for a year or so was that Americans are amazingly alike. That seems to be the opposite of what your blog is all about.

You of course can disagree with anything you want to. Your problem is that your bias never changes and is never subject to self-examination. The worst form of bias is a predictable one, and you are oh so predictable. America is becoming a fierce and nasty place, and you are doing your best to feed that trend. Your infatuation with the word "leftist" and your application of that word to every "bias" you disagree with gives you away and makes you and your views appear small and childish.

It seems to me that people who felt the media had a liberal bias have done a lot to change that over the last 30 years or so. That doesn't mean one should reasonably expect the front pages of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal to cover the same stories or cover the same stories in the same way. Besides, you don't seem to be having any trouble finding your anti-"leftist" anecdotes all over the current media.

And yes, I'm biased. Despite having some very conservative views on a number of specific issues (none of which I'd describe with a self-aggrandizing term like "libertarian"), I am an independent. I think our country is in real trouble if the best the dominate political party can produce is Donald Trump, a man of clearly limited intellect, brutish behavior, constant lies, and no moral values whatsoever. The fact that so many Republicans wildly supported (and support) him speaks ill of them and their party and for our country's future.

Sorry. I'll stop posting here. I thought I knew you once and hoped to find some part of your old self I once knew. That probably explains why I have attempted to antagonize you way to much with my comments. That old self is either a figment of my memory or has been taken out and killed behind the barn. As Jane Austen put it so well in Pride and Prejudice, “I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”

Ciao and far thee well.




9:39 PM

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