[N_Fiddledog]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

I'm not claiming they are non-partisan. Individual publications may have their inclinations, but taken as a whole there's not much evidence that there is a bias. What I did say is that the four major dailies in Vancouver (including the Vancouver Sun and the Globe Mail--also the Province and the National Post) endorsed Harper in the last election, and the election before that. And all four wanted Canada to send troops to Iraq. despite that, I don't really think they are biased right. They were just wrong on Iraq and there were some good reasons to endorse Harper in the last election.

More evidence? How about Fox News being the highest rated cable news network. Or the fact that of the half of the top ten radio shows in the US are conservative talk shows.

You also have to take into account your own place on the political spectrum. If someone think Fox News is a bunch of commies, then it's easy to see why he would see the media in general as liberally biased.

I read the Vancouver Sun and sometimes the Globe and Mail. I know the direction their bias leans on a daily basis. It's not to the right. The V Sun's movie reviewers are damn near Communists. Political endorsements are selective incidents with not necessarily partisan raison d'etres. For bias I'm concerned about stuff like the kind of things that get left out, and what makes its way in. That's where bias begins. The Sun and the G&M don't pass the smell test on those.

That people prefer to get the more complete news from the right when they can get it does not provide "overwhelming evidence" there is not left wing bias in the mainstream or legacy media.

[bootlegga]

Thanos Thanos:

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

Not to worry your God Prince is protected.

Feel free to burn Sarah Palin's church down though. They never bothered with the last guy or guys who did it.

Your kind of death-threateners tend to get more publicity and promotions for being such awesome patriots, kind of like with Ted Nugent becoming one of the main spokesmen for the NRA.

I'm also amazed that you'd invoke Glenn Beck as some kind of innocent in all of this horrid behaviour, especially after he got that one drone listener of his so riled up that the bastard ended up shooting up a highway in a gun battle with the California Highway Patrol while on his way to exterminate the offices of the Tides Foundation. Or when he gets his listeners so frothing at the mouth they start to stalk and threaten a 78-year old woman.

$1:

"I would have never started watching Fox News if it wasn't for the fact that Beck was on there. And it was the things that he did, it was the things he exposed that blew my mind." - Byron Williams

Don't let any facts interrupt your day though. You haven't so far, in the vast majority of the posts you've made here, so I expect you'll just keep plugging away at.....whatever it is you're trying to accomplish.

Snap! +5

[peck420]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

How about Fox News being the highest rated cable news network.

That is pretty good for a channel that is registered as entertainment, and classified as satire.

[pineywoodslim]

The US is incarceration nation.

More folks in prison per capita than anywhere else on the planet.

As the prison industry continues to be privatized, lots of money to be made by feeding product to the industry.