How to sort through bias in media.

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Originally posted by: MartyTheManiak

Originally posted by: vladgur
Thank you Lucky for expressing my point of view very eloquently. My wife was a tv journalist in Ukraine and studies journalism in San Francisco State which seems to hire only disillusionned wrecks of journalists to teach the new generation. Every time she comes home from school she tells me of her professors complaining about evil corporations owning the media, how you can never trust whats on tv, how media should be owned by the people(communism all over again with gov-t controlled media) for the people etc etc. In fact there was no organized events in SFSU on 9/11/02 and even though my wife brought two candles that day, she did not have a chance to light it.

Back to the topic, internet brings plethora of info to our mind and its our job to selectively pick out the right one(which is an arguable term anyways), but it seems that this yellowtimes.org news site has found following among people like MartyTheManiac who was mentioned in one of the other OT threads as feeling that 9/11 is over-rated (It must be in Canada).

Don't be so quick to judge people you know nothing about.
1. I am not one of those people who follow YellowTimes. This link was posted on Fark (yes I am guilty of being a Farker). Despite the fact that YT is a leftist site, this is a nicely written article that applies to all media regardless if they have a left or right bias.
2. Yes I do feel 9/11 is overrated, but its not a candian thing. Remember, canadians died in the WTC too, but I don't know them, nor did I know the other ~3000 people that died there. Why should I care? WTC has not affected me in any way, except a steady stream of heavily sentimental, melodramatic articles/news clips which I happen to despise. Call me cold hearted if you will, but I simply don't care how many husbands died, I don't care about the 9/11 babies, the 9/11 orphants, the 9/11 widows etc etc...

Ok you are cold hearted.