|
Current Events Help understand the world by talking about things happening in it |
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
05-12-2010, 02:42 PM | #1 |
Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
Posts: 31,423
|
FYI: how news was, and is, and will be
1960: biased reporters try to give multiple sides to a story and to be as objective as possible, out of pride in their profession
1980: biased reporters give two sides to every story -- as if all information has only two sides -- so they can avoid looking biased 2000: biased reporters tell their side of the story and include a mocking quote from the "other side" to support their biased narrative... but still claim objectivity because their viewpoint is "correct" 2010: valueless "news" is replaced by comedy hosts aka Jon Stewart, and bloggers who admit their bias openly and honestly, and report directly from it for an audience that shares it I prefer 2010 to 1980 and 2000, but I don't know if I prefer it to 1960. |
05-12-2010, 02:45 PM | #2 |
changed his status to single
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Right behind you. No, the other side.
Posts: 10,308
|
I didn't get to see 1960 for myself but I like the sound of it. It sounds, oh I don't know, professional?
__________________
Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin |
05-12-2010, 02:47 PM | #3 |
Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 21,206
|
Worth repeating here:
__________________
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby |
05-12-2010, 06:03 PM | #4 |
Come on, cat.
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area
Posts: 7,013
|
Bias is one thing but it seems like the outright lying that Fox News introduced in 2000 has been fully embraced by 2010 - see CNN coverage of AZ immigration law. Sucks.
__________________
Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good. |
05-13-2010, 06:09 AM | #5 |
Doctor Wtf
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Badelaide, Baustralia
Posts: 12,861
|
Crappy indeed ... and yet ... it only continues because quite a number of people continue to watch that crap and think it is real.
__________________
Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl. |
05-13-2010, 08:35 AM | #6 |
barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy.
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 23,401
|
What else is there for most people? All the "news shows" are biased. Its just that most people hear what they want to hear. It reaffirms their personal opinion.
__________________
"like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt |
06-07-2010, 11:31 AM | #7 | |
barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy.
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 23,401
|
She has since apologized for her opinion. Quote:
Link
__________________
"like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt |
|
06-07-2010, 11:44 AM | #8 |
Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 21,206
|
She should've just told the Mexicans to go home. She would probably be applauded.
Racism, so subjective, who would've figured?
__________________
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby |
06-07-2010, 11:46 AM | #9 | |
barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy.
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 23,401
|
Troll.
Update... Veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas retires following controversial remarks Quote:
__________________
"like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt |
|
06-07-2010, 11:52 AM | #10 | |
Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 21,206
|
Quote:
I'm telling brucie and utie and wolfie and sundie and briie and tullie and chodie...
__________________
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby |
|
06-07-2010, 11:58 AM | #11 | |
Chews Food Coming In, And Going Out
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 339
|
Quote:
What she said... was true. Every damn word. What she said, is no different than England telling Germany to stop invading other countries, to stop killing innocent people. That's EXACTLY what the damn Israeli cunts are doing... invading another country, killing innocent people... They're no better than the Nazi Party, and they disgust me. What really pisses me off, is that America is happy to abide... they train, they support (financially, politically, and with weaponry.) Until American leaders stops sucking circumcised cock, until the WHOLE God-damn Western world gets that kosher meat out of their collective mouths, these bastards will continue to do whatever they please. The holocaust was a VERY long time ago... and we did everything we could (well, England did, other countries kinda slacked, until towards the end, when all "they" really wanted to do, was test their new, big toy, and fuck with the idiotic Japs who, for some reason, decided to piss on them... you know who I'm talking about,) to stop it from happening... Why the fuck should we feel guilty, and through that guilt, allow them to get away with genocide, when we weren't responsible for the harm they suffered, when we tried (and succeeded, eventually) to stop it? It's bollocks. Besides all that - It was a VERY long time ago. Get the fuck over it. That's like people of a darker complexion, still thinking they're "owed" something, for slavery. Bollocks. It was a long time ago, we've all moved on, and NO ONE alive was responsible for it... People... Fuck.
__________________
"O' Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done;" "The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;" - Walt Whitman / Leaves Of Grass. |
|
06-07-2010, 12:04 PM | #12 |
™
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
Posts: 27,717
|
|
06-07-2010, 12:12 PM | #13 | |
Chews Food Coming In, And Going Out
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 339
|
Quote:
Why must the whole Western world bend over for these people, when the vast majority of the people within, helped secure this pitiful* people's future? We didn't need to, we didn't have to, but we did... we've already done more than enough. We should NOT'VE given them Arab land, and we should NOT be helping, encouraging, or turning a blind eye to, them to take over more Arab land. Did you know that, since the end of WWII, since we gave them Arab land (what right did we have?) that they've been continually expanding "their" territory? Fighting wars, occupying more Arab land... all sanctioned by "the powers that be," despite the fact that, anywhere else in the world, any other people in the world, we'd deplore their actions. Disgusting, isn't it? They're owed NOTHING. In fact, they owe the Western world EVERYTHING. We saved their pitiful* existence. We sent OUR people to die, to save them. Our fathers, our sons, our uncles, our cousins, or nephews... all to protect people they didn't even know, for no other reason than decency... something they've NEVER shown, in return. They're STILL not thankful. Disgusting, isn't it? Still, whatever... That was a long time ago, and fine, forget being thanked, let's just move on... but when will they move on? (* I say "pitiful," because they're thankless cunts who feel like they're owed something... who constantly commit war crimes, crimes against humanity, whilst crying that it's fair, because it happened to them. They're no better than the Nazi Party. No better at all.)
__________________
"O' Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done;" "The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;" - Walt Whitman / Leaves Of Grass. |
|
06-07-2010, 12:35 PM | #14 |
™
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
Posts: 27,717
|
OK. So you hate the Jews, and you hate Israel. How do you feel about Hamas, who took over control of the Gaza strip by force and has sworn to wipe Israel from the map?
|
06-07-2010, 11:48 AM | #15 |
Chews Food Coming In, And Going Out
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 339
|
Why is this person coming under such fire... for telling a group of people to leave the land that they've forcefully occupied? To return back "home?" What is so wrong about that?
Nothing. Fucking Jewish media. It disgusts me.
__________________
"O' Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done;" "The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;" - Walt Whitman / Leaves Of Grass. |
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
|
|