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Originally posted by Iwannakeeper
Red and Blue do not make green - they make purple
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I know, it was a joke. What's green
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Spence, I do disagee with your opinion that the right attacks what it views as a left wing point of view and the left attacks the right on behavior. We do agree that the truth is not clear. And the media has watered it all down.
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This is my observation, and I've done a tremendous amount of observing.
Show me a right-wing pundit and I'll wager a weeks pay they're attacking "liberalisim" 90% of the time.
When what the last time you heard a liberal pundit generalizeabout the evils of "conservatisim". You will hear them bitch about Buhs, Rummy, Iraq, Corporate scandal etc... but more often than not they are attacking specific issues or policy decisions.
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But I believe your opinion is based on the media outlets you use to inform yourself coupled with natural human behavior.
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I think you get that opinion because I'm decidedly anti-Buhs and not afraid to get on my soap box. To be honest I spend just as much time reading right-wing media as I do the left. If I sound like I propaganda machine, perhaps it's because Buhs really is that bad
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I think the real problem with the media is that it is never fair and balenced. Aside from Fox News, Sean Hannitty, talk radio and The Wall Street Journal, all major media outlets lean decidedly left.
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I've ranted about this many times, but I'll do it again. There is no liberal media conspiracy! Media outlets report the kind of news they think will sell. For certian there are extremes, but the majority of news agencies are business hoping to make money, not indoctrinate.
For every example of the Globe doing something partisan, they have run tens of thousands of articles that nobody has complained about.
I know people who think the NYTimes is liberal because they cover a lot of International news. Editorials are one thing, the rest is just covering what their readers want to hear.
If covering news a certian way appears liberal to you, then perhaps America isn't as conservative as you might think
-spence