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Frank dissection of media bias

Media
“No matter how much we may try to ignore it, human communication always takes place in a context, through a medium, and among individuals and groups who are situated historically, politically, economically, and socially. This state of affairs is neither bad nor good. It simply is. Bias is a small word that identifies the collective influences of the entire context of a message.
Politicians are certainly biased and overtly so. They belong to parties and espouse policies and ideologies. And while they may think their individual ideologies are simply common sense, they understand that they speak from political positions.
Journalists, too, speak from political positions but usually not overtly so. The journalistic ethics of objectivity and fairness are strong influences on the profession. But journalistic objectivity is not the pristine objectivity of philosophy.”

 No comments from me yet. I’ve not read all the way through. I just wanted to make sure I didn’t lose track of the piece.

A Question Someone Ought to Ask

 ABC News: Pet Food Maker to Take Financial Responsibility for Pet Deaths From Poisoning

Doctors have found a toxin in the pet food that is not part of any legal pesticide, and is only found in some cancer treatments. So there’s no way someone accidentally tipped over the box of rat poison unwisely placed near the pet food vats.

So has anyone considered that this poison pet food scare might just be a wildly successful test-run for terrorists who’d love to poison the county’s food supply. Homeland Security officials talk about the necessity of protecting the nation’s food, yet when curious tainted-product scandals like this break, they never seem to investigate whether it’s part of a larger plan.

Has anyone considered that, in light of the recent litany of food quality scares (lettuce, Taco Bell, peanut butter, now deadly dog chow), maybe our food supply is ALREADY under attack?

MSM demonstrates sleight of hand coverage

 Ouch.

Don Surber on current teapot-based tempests

“Pay no attention to this train wreck called the Democratic Party “policy” on Iraq — look at this shiny penny of a scandal over there, and don’t forget to watch Captain Planet testify. He brought his Oscar and everything.”

new War, same old Press

It appears no military action is immune from the backseat driving of faux-informed editorialists:

NRO’s The Corner quotes General Lee

“It appears we have appointed our worst generals to command forces, and our most gifted and brilliant to edit newspapers

In fact, I discovered by reading newspapers that these editor/geniuses plainly saw all my strategic defects from the start, yet failed to inform me until it was too late.

Accordingly, I’m readily willing to yield my command to these obviously superior intellects, and I’ll, in turn, do my best for the Cause by writing editorials – after the fact.”

-Robert E. Lee, 1863