My newfound zealotry sometimes gets the best of me.
Try David Brock's "Blinded by the Right" and Eric Alterman's "What Liberal Media" for a start. Franken's "Lying Liars" is good comedy but it is also loaded with well-researched fact.
A couple more links:
http://www.buzzflash.com/perspectives/2002/Media_Bias.html(this one has MANY excellent links)
You SHOULD keep your skepticism. As I daily try to make sure that my zealotry doesn't consume my critical thinking skills and I become a mindless Democratic Booster like the Dittoheads (can you imagine being proud of such a vile name that says that your a dumbass who can't form his own thoughts???) but on the Left, I try to remember the cardinal rule should be
be MOST skeptical of that which tells you what you want to hear or is conforming to your worldview.
I like to think I have done that. That my views are always well-vetted, corroborated, and surviving my own skeptical calleneges (as well as those I invite from others).
I haven't always succeeded but I always try to come back to that rule.
Satisfy yourself as to the veracity of my or anyone's claims.
If the facts tell you I'm wrong, go with it, but make sure to be skeptical of yourself.
Maintaining a critical mind in this situation where Tyranny threatens is essential.
Anyway, sorry for speechifying. You are correct to be skeptical.
But the bias on CNN is powerful and obvious. Note the distribution of guest, Left, Right, and Center on the various Bloated Blathering Pundit Shows on CNN. Almost ALWAYS more right than center (to even put left in there is laughable, actually, outisde of Crossfire, which we will leave out because that is the one show that actually is pretty balanced, got give them credit for that)Candy Crowley, Jack McCaffery, Schneider, Judy Woodruff (the Busheviks still call her a liberal--are they INSANE--watch as she covers and fawns for Bush, gives him the benefit of the doubt, makes little digs at the Dems not always but often--people 'round here call her Judy Whoredruff) WOLF BLITZER (a HUGE Bush cheerleader and fawner) there's more but you get the idea. Look at their roster yourself.
Often, an ardent Bushevik Propagandist (this was particularly true in the Last Days of the Old Republic in the 90s when they basically had an open field -- no one had really figured out their little Malevolent Operations and Media Machinations so they had a field day) against a Left-Center Journalist striving to be fair as that is the Journalists Credo of the Old American post-WWII Republic) or TWO (think 1998: Ann Coulter and Barbara Olsen on Larry King Live...we had NO idea what Pravda was being beamed at us with no opposition or challenge) against a left-center jounrlaist. Often the hosts (hmmm...how'd all those Bushevik Loyalists like Tim Russert/NBC, Wolf Blitzer, Billy Schnieder) are maneuvering the conversation favorably and using their position to aid their chums.
It's ugly and odious and OBVIOUS. Once you start picking up on it, watching Corporate TV Pravda will be nauseating.
I'm sorry. We have to tell as many people as possible as quickly as possible. It ain't no Ed Murrow and Walter Cronkite any more.
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