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Originally Posted by SwamP_ThinG
And just what is that suppose to mean?
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It means they are more likely to report on what is going wrong in Iraq than what is going right. It means that they are more likely to believe ANYONE above the US. Psychologists have a name for it "hindsight bias". If you are against this war from the beginning, you are going to find all of the information to prove you were correct. Same goes if you supported the war.
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Journalism is about reporting facts, not opinions. What does reporting facts have to do with being liberal or conservative?...
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Then you don't have a problem with FOX news reporting? They're just reporting the facts.
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The fact is, 40 people were dead by the US bombing. Wether some think it was a marriage and others donīt, it doesnīt alter the fact that those people are dead.
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Well, it does matter. If those 40 people were on their way to planting car bombs in Shi'a neighborhoods, or on their way to joining forces with Sadr, or on their way to strapping on bombs and blowing themselves up in another crowded Iraqi market then I think it's a good thing they're dead. I prefer that those who wish to extend the US involvement in Iraq be stopped before they get to their targets, I would prefer that those who are intent on killing civilians be killed before they get a chance to. I'm kind of funny that way.
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Liberal or not, conservative or not, journalism is about giving us, the public, all the facts, not the reporterīs opinions of what the facts should look like.
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I couldn't agree more. I wish it were that way.
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Just because the US media happens to swing more to the left in the political spectrum, it doesnīt mean they are incapable of reporting the facts as they are. And the same goes to conservative media.
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You would think so, but that clearly isn't the case.
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Whenever watching the news, i always strip the factual material from the opinionated material. I take the factual into consideration, while i judge for myself what opinion to make of it.
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Right. Just like you did with this post. You have no more information that we do and yet your opinion latches quickly on to believing one side of the story. You would make a good reporter, but evidently not one you care to hear from.
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The real question is not wether the media is liberal or conservative. The real issue is wether they conduct real serious and honest journalism, or wether they conduct loud controverse and sensationalist tabloid journalism.
Liberals or conservatives, none of them has the monopoly on the truth, both sides are capable of doing bad journalism.
Infact, both sides should just drop the partizan crap and stick to reporting facts. Report the "where"s, report the "when"s, and report the "how"s, but leave the "why"s to the public, philosofers and politicians. Itīs not the mediaīs job to know why it happened, only what happened, when and where.
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Hear, hear!