"I guess we'll see if/. can manage to be "fair and balanced", considering the rather significant slant in its readership.
Yeah, but slant in which direction? I've seen people stating, as if it were a self-evident fact, that the majority of the/. readership is heavily left leaning, while other people are equally convinced that it's right/libertarian leaning.
You obviously think the perceived slant is so pronounced that you don't even have to specify which way it leans (or falls over, as the case may be)
And this, again, brings us to why the left-right political spectrum is inadequate. Politics is so inherently diverse, and so hard to take in all at once, that simply labeling everything as being "liberal" or "conservative" is idiotic.
People will always see their own bias, or their opponents' bias, in others, because their political views try to shoehorn _everything_ into one of two categories./. does not lean in any particular direction, at least as far as I can tell. Its readership does, but I'm not su
Realize that there is no left in the US, what they call left is called in most countries right, and not even moderate right. Really, democrats are more "rightists" than most right political parties in europe, and what we call left would probably be tagged as communism or something like that.
What slant? You mean like the slant in the conservative mainstream media? Just kidding. If you actually think ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN have a right wing agenda then your frame of reference must be so far leftward that you truly have to be an activist simply to pimp your extreme views to the masses. I was just pointing that out for flamebaiting purposes. I also predict that every independant, libertarian and republican sounding post will be modded to -5. This political stuff will be so obviously preaching to t
If you actually think ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN have a right wing agenda then your frame of reference must be so far leftward...
You realize that can be turned around the other way as well, when right-wing crazies start muttering about "ultraleftwing CNN agendas" and similar nonsense? Whatever, but you won't find truly hard questioning of the Bush regime's agenda on any US cable network - this adminstration is treated with extreme delicacy by the media, particularly when compared with their credulous rep
If you actually think ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN have a right wing agenda then your frame of reference must be so far leftward that you truly have to be an activist simply to pimp your extreme views to the masses.
I didn't realize that it was a left/right thing to be against a war based on falty reasoning.
Always thought of that as being an libertarian position.
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Yeah, but slant in which direction? I've seen people stating, as if it were a self-evident fact, that the majority of the /. readership is heavily left leaning, while other people are equally convinced that it's right/libertarian leaning.
You obviously think the perceived slant is so pronounced that you don't even have to specify which way it leans (or falls over, as the case may be)
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backslashdot.org!
\. Left leaning news.
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People will always see their own bias, or their opponents' bias, in others, because their political views try to shoehorn _everything_ into one of two categories.
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Just kidding. If you actually think ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN have a right wing agenda then your frame of reference must be so far leftward that you truly have to be an activist simply to pimp your extreme views to the masses. I was just pointing that out for flamebaiting purposes. I also predict that every independant, libertarian and republican sounding post will be modded to -5. This political stuff will be so obviously preaching to t
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If you actually think ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN have a right wing agenda then your frame of reference must be so far leftward...
You realize that can be turned around the other way as well, when right-wing crazies start muttering about "ultraleftwing CNN agendas" and similar nonsense? Whatever, but you won't find truly hard questioning of the Bush regime's agenda on any US cable network - this adminstration is treated with extreme delicacy by the media, particularly when compared with their credulous rep
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I didn't realize that it was a left/right thing to be against a war based on falty reasoning.
Always thought of that as being an libertarian position.
Well hell (Score:3, Funny)
The editors of Pravda would have been proud.
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