tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13576198.post114672972773173217..comments2023-09-05T05:20:50.393-04:00Comments on second americano: This long between posts, and all you have is links???Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13576198.post-1147189089771128892006-05-09T11:38:00.000-04:002006-05-09T11:38:00.000-04:00I like Sam's idea of returning to a partisan press...I like Sam's idea of returning to a partisan press in the US. The neutral posture that the media assume in the US is misleading and debilitating. It renders the media unable to cover facts when they have, as Colbert put it, a "liberal bias." Liberal leaning facts must be suppressed or otherwise counterbalanced by pseudo-equivalent right-leaning facts.<BR/><BR/>But in the meantime I think the rise of the internet and the left blogosphere really has a transformative effect, as Dan observes. It puts pressure on the MSM that helps to counterbalance the enormous and longstanding pressure they've received from the political right. One has only to look at the pitiful wails from Richard Cohen's column in today's Washington Post to see the effects. The pressure will have be beneficial, even if Cohen and his ilk spend a lot of time whining about it.Franceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02613451993739868870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13576198.post-1146920270655026742006-05-06T08:57:00.000-04:002006-05-06T08:57:00.000-04:00In the Washington Post on Thursday?, there was an ...In the Washington Post on Thursday?, there was an article about how people approach their news outlets with political bias in mind. There was some [albeit not-that-scientific] survey conducted that asked participants to choose headlines to read. The catch was that all of the headlines were followed by a logo of the broadcast station that was presenting it. What they found was that people chose to watch news clips that came from their preferred network, which is based on a political filter, no matter the headline. In fact, part of the study duplicated the headlines/news pieces and falsified the broadcast network, and still they chose according to network.<BR/><BR/>I think what's problematic about this idealistic concept of non-spin media is that it's contradictory to our bipartisan political climate in the US. If like in the UK we had numerous strong parties with numerous righteous causes, (not lumped together) then I think media might tend to follow as well. In which case, the public might have more access to information, be it spin, no-spin, party-identified, etc. Whatever it is, we just need <I>more information</I>.Tarnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14584470465321516765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13576198.post-1146890950227440562006-05-06T00:49:00.000-04:002006-05-06T00:49:00.000-04:00maybe more independent media. like, say, web-logs?...maybe more independent media. like, say, web-logs? the more we all get our news from the daily show and a dozen blogs, the more we're contributing to THE REVOLUTION!<BR/><BR/>i'm not trying to over-simplify, but i seriously believe in the power of the internet to challenge MSM (i know, i only heard this acronym recently myself...works for me!). why, just look at stories linked from this very blog after hurricane Katrina...so many dimensions to every major news story. let alone the many over-looked narratives that don't make it through the news filter.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04448647157972462097noreply@blogger.com