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I think you should reconsider that stance. I don't believe Alternet claims that they are non-biased, the poster just presented the interview saying they are straight-forward questions and straight-forward answers.
I think it'd be a more interesting, and topical, discussion if we focused on the substance and not the web advertisements.
If you read my post, I commented on both. The first thing that turned me off on the article is that it was surrounded by ultra left wing advertisements. And then it didn't get any better getting into the article.
right wing media will never end, at least in america. the media is owned and controlled by corporations. corporations are served by right wing interests. if they want to protect their interests, they will continue to dish out right wing propoganda. it's just the way it works. big companies want low taxes. right wing provides low taxes.
that is one explanation.
right wing media will never end, at least in america. the media is owned and controlled by corporations. corporations are served by right wing interests. if they want to protect their interests, they will continue to dish out right wing propoganda. it's just the way it works. big companies want low taxes. right wing provides low taxes.
that is one explanation.
I agree. The right-wing media just loves putting Abu-Ghraib articles on the front page, as with the NY Times, and allowing David Crosby to spew comments that the U.S. military mission is to kill mothers and sisters without being challenged, like CNN does. Those right-wingers, like those in the San Francisco Chronicle, sure can be brutal on the Bush Administration.
For whatever ads surround the piece, Krugman is hitting a big nail square on the head, to the consternation of right-wingers everywhere, the bulk of whom seem not to have very much of consequence to say on the matter. The right-wing has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in building, buying, and consolidating a disinformation media that they hope will be capable of long-term domination of the political conversation in this country, and to our national embarassment, so far it has worked. We find ourselves today awash in a sea of right-wing mush. There are no major media outlets to whom one can turn for as much as a balanced approach to news and issues. There is only a choice between soft-core and hard-core right-wingedness, that difference being measured principally by degree of dishonesty. And the levels of exposure, knowledge, understanding, and sophistication among those who simply do not have the time or means to go out and dig a little further (i.e., to do the job that the news media used to do, but don't anymore because they lose money doing it) suffer greatly for it. Add to that group another whose only interest in the news to begin with lies in a need to have their personal biases reinforced and their most basic emotions catered to, and you have one of the primary reasons why the country is headed in the dire directions that it is. We have gone from the apex of our power, success, influence, and optimism as a nation to being a grumpy, bankrupt, international pariah on the global decline in seven short years. Liberals didn't do that. Intellectuals didn't do that. Gays didn't do that. Honest, hard-working, tax-paying, church-going average Americans did that, and they did it in part by falling for the bill of goods that the right-wing media have been selling. Krugman is describing one symptom of our national disease. It remains to be seen whether we, as a people, can bring ourselves to the point of actually curing it...
PLEASE!!! . The right wing has Fox news and a couple of radio programs like Rush and Hannity. ALL the rest are completely controled by the Liberals. If it wasn't for the internet it would be hard indeed to find any true conservative news. Where does it end?? Where IS it is more like it!
For whatever ads surround the piece, Krugman is hitting a big nail square on the head, to the consternation of right-wingers everywhere, the bulk of whom seem not to have very much of consequence to say on the matter. The right-wing has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in building, buying, and consolidating a disinformation media that they hope will be capable of long-term domination of the political conversation in this country, and to our national embarassment, so far it has worked. We find ourselves today awash in a sea of right-wing mush. There are no major media outlets to whom one can turn for as much as a balanced approach to news and issues. There is only a choice between soft-core and hard-core right-wingedness, that difference being measured principally by degree of dishonesty. And the levels of exposure, knowledge, understanding, and sophistication among those who simply do not have the time or means to go out and dig a little further (i.e., to do the job that the news media used to do, but don't anymore because they lose money doing it) suffer greatly for it. Add to that group another whose only interest in the news to begin with lies in a need to have their personal biases reinforced and their most basic emotions catered to, and you have one of the primary reasons why the country is headed in the dire directions that it is. We have gone from the apex of our power, success, influence, and optimism as a nation to being a grumpy, bankrupt, international pariah on the global decline in seven short years. Liberals didn't do that. Intellectuals didn't do that. Gays didn't do that. Honest, hard-working, tax-paying, church-going average Americans did that, and they did it in part by falling for the bill of goods that the right-wing media have been selling. Krugman is describing one symptom of our national disease. It remains to be seen whether we, as a people, can bring ourselves to the point of actually curing it...
Yet, you completely ignore my three examples, as if they didn't happen. Doing so, demonstrates your bias on the subject and reduces your credibility.
PLEASE!!! . The right wing has Fox news and a couple of radio programs like Rush and Hannity. ALL the rest are completely controled by the Liberals. If it wasn't for the internet it would be hard indeed to find any true conservative news. Where does it end?? Where IS it is more like it!
What about [partial list] Accuracy in Academia, African-American Life Alliance, All Children Matter, Alliance Defense Fund, American Center for Law and Justice, American Civil Rights Institute, American Conservative Union, American Enterprise Institute, American Family Association, American Legislative Exchange Council, American Life League, American Society for Tradition, Family and Property, Americans for Tax Reform, Arlington Group, Black America's Political Action Committee, Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Campaign for Working Families, Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, Cato Institute, Center for the Study of Popular Culture, Christian Coalition of America, Christian Legal Society, Club for Growth, Collegiate Network, Coalition for a Fair Judiciary, Committee for Justice, Concerned Women for America, Eagle Forum, Eagle Forum Collegians, Family Research Council, Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, Focus on the Family, FRCAction, Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, FreedomWorks, Heritage Foundation, High Impact Leadership Coalition, Hispanic Alliance for Progress Institute, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Independent Women's Forum, Institute for Justice, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Judeo-Christian Council for Constitutional Restoration, Judicial Confirmation Network, Landmark Legal Foundation, Leadership Institute, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Madison Project, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, National Association of Scholars, National Center for Policy Analysis, National Right to Life Committee, National Taxpayers Union, New Coalition for Economic and Social Change, Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, State Policy Network, Students for Academic Freedom, Toward Tradition, Traditional Values Coalition, WallBuilders, or Young America's Foundation?
We don't even have to go into the WSJ_EP, the NY Post, the Washington Times, or the majority of other US newspapers that is conservative. No need to mention the likes of drudge, townhall.com, Newsmax, Worldnetdaily, or any of the nodes along the right-wing Christian WebRing that seek to poison the well with the sheer volume of what they put up.
Wake up and smell the coffee. They don't call it The Echo Chamber because poor Fox, Rush, and Sean are so alone out there...
Yet, you completely ignore my three examples, as if they didn't happen. Doing so, demonstrates your bias on the subject and reduces your credibility.
You're three examples??? The Abu Ghraib pictures were news worldwide, it isn't bias to report what a liberal has said, and you didn't even say what the SF Chronicle was alleged to be guilty of. If you're going to put up examples of bias, at least use examples of bias...
You're three examples??? The Abu Ghraib pictures were news worldwide, it isn't bias to report what a liberal has said, and you didn't even say what the SF Chronicle was alleged to be guilty of. If you're going to put up examples of bias, at least use examples of bias...
It is biased when it's front-page news over 30 times (The New York Times).
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. The right wing has Fox news and a couple of radio programs like Rush and Hannity. ALL the rest are completely controled by the Liberals. If it wasn't for the internet it would be hard indeed to find any true conservative news. Where does it end?? Where IS it is more like it!
