Originally posted by: Rainsford
Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY
Originally posted by: Rainsford
Originally posted by: Pabster
The Des Moines Register is a far-left liberal rag. Always has been, always will.
Their endorsement of McCain is just a token to make it look nice.
Iowans know this, because we are cursed with their liberal ranting all year long. The rest of the country doesn't have the pleasure.
Man do you guys whine a lot. I lived in Iowa for 4 years while going to college, and while I don't think the DMR is a super great paper, I don't think their coverage is at all biased. And I didn't think so even when I first moved to Iowa, when I considered myself quite the conservative (man was I stupid back then). And let's face it, you are the LAST person who can accurately judge if someone is a lefty...you're so far to the right I think Hitler would look like a communist to you.
Uhh.. Pointing out the bias is not whining, it's just stating the facts. Just take a look at the last debate. The Register took the 2 biggest issues off the table. They are openly pro-amnesty. I could go on and on, but it is definately not whining to point out their bias.
I think you've fallen into the trap of thinking that everything that doesn't agree with your worldview must be "biased". Let's face it, you're hardly middle of the road either, the fact that you don't like the Register's coverage doesn't mean they are biased, maybe it means YOUR point of view is wrong. Are they biased because they "took the 2 biggest issues off the table", or is it maybe that not everyone agrees on what the "2 biggest issues" are?
And it IS whining, because instead of trying to fairly judge the media against some objective standard of journalism, you insist on complaining every time the media does anything that doesn't fit with your worldview. The bar for displaying bias, according to you guys, isn't slanting facts or coverage away from the truth to serve an agenda, it's reporting anything at all that goes against YOUR agenda. If the media covered things in a way you approved of, they really would be biased.
Personally I think the whole "bias" argument against the media is a sideshow for what's really wrong with the news media, and I think the only reason people pursue it with such abandon is that it allows you a neat little out to dismiss things you disagree with. The fact that all media, with a few exceptions, is accused of LIBERAL bias should raise some obvious questions. While I don't think the media is immune to bias, I find it strange that an entire industry would be biased one way...especially because they are a business and display such an obvious bias (according to you people) that they'd end up driving away half their customers. Not to mention that most media outlets are owned by large corporations, and you have to look pretty hard to find a liberal on any of their boards. The whole thing smacks just a little too much of conspiracy theory nonsense for me to not think you have some ulterior motive, particularly when that motive is so obvious.
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