Article about Sarah Palin by David Kahane

[Skeptic]

Right, unlike any piece of Rupert Murdoch owned press which would read more like:

Let's all Whine at Slippery Slope Socialist Scenarios -- p. 2
New Ways To Use "Liberal" As If It Were An Insult -- p. 3
Obama: Yet Another Comparison To Stalin Or Hitler -- p. 5
Any Other Kind Of News Is The Product Of A Left Wing Media Conspiracy -- p. 6

No doubt; but, the big difference here is honesty. Murdoch's papers don't PRETEND not to be biased. Everybody knows they're right-wing and they're proud of it. Time, CBS, the New York Times etc. are just as biased to the left, but they considered themselves "balanced".

This is the core of the problem: the belief that a "balanced" and "objective" views just has to be left-wing, because "everybody knows" reality supports the left-wing policies.

 

[Cleon]

No doubt; but, the big difference here is honesty. Murdoch's papers don't PRETEND not to be biased. Everybody knows they're right-wing and they're proud of it. Time, CBS, the New York Times etc. are just as biased to the left, but they considered themselves "balanced".

Who is it again that uses slogans like "Fair & Balanced" and "We Report, You Decide?"

I don't recall CBS, Time, or the NYT using them. Who could it be....?

 

[Tricky]

I wonder why the lame stream media didn't give Biden the same treatment they gave Palin? Or do you think VP Biden has proved to be less of an embarrassment that you believed Palin would be?

I'm guessing they don't give him the same treatment because none of those "flubs" is particularly funny or embarassing. Some of them aren't even flubs. Some are just intentional, if lame, jokes. Not a thing about dead fish going with the flow or comparing resigning the governership to a single play in a basketball game. If you want the media to savage you, then you have to give them better material than that.

Heck, your link isn't even good any more. Newsday must have taken it off because it was so boring.

 

[The Fool]

Or do you think VP Biden has proved to be less of an embarrassment that you believed Palin would be?

yes....absolutely.

I simply cannot fathom Palin.....or more accurately I simply cannot fathom the people that put her up as VP candidate.....I also have trouble understanding people who can wear the required follower goggles for her to look acceptable.


Seriously mate.....the world is laughing, let the laughter die down eh?

 

[Tsukasa Buddha]

No doubt; but, the big difference here is honesty. Murdoch's papers don't PRETEND not to be biased. Everybody knows they're right-wing and they're proud of it. Time, CBS, the New York Times etc. are just as biased to the left, but they considered themselves "balanced".

This is the core of the problem: the belief that a "balanced" and "objective" views just has to be left-wing, because "everybody knows" reality supports the left-wing policies.

 

[ImaginalDisc]

The original article definitely exagerrates, I think, although it seems that the "Obama birtherism" is heavily sarcastic, not intended to be taken literally.

But it certainly has a serious point. I've certainly read editions of Newsweek or the New York Times -- just to name two -- whose list of articles were, in effect, something like:

Let's all Laugh at Sarah Palin -- p. 2
New Test Results Prove Republicans are Stupid -- p. 3
Obama: Totally Great or Just Super-Cool? An Objective Analysis -- p. 5
Public Considers Media Left-Leaning for no Apparent Reason -- p. 6

It might help your case if you actually reported the real headlines instead of just editorializing them.