Before Nunberg's "analysis" has any credibility

Post #33,427 by tonytib 3/25/02 8:44:36 PM Reply	Before Nunberg's "analysis" has any credibility everyone will have to agree exactly where all the people referred to (in the newspaper) fit in the categories, e.g.: -- extreme left -- liberal -- moderate / center -- conservative -- extreme right Person A can feel that Politician A is "moderate", while person B says they are "extreme ________". So if these people do the same study, they'll come up with, well, very different results. And we'll all agree on this about the same time pigs sprout wings. Tony
Post #33,431 by CRConrad 3/25/02 8:59:55 PM Reply	Oh, come the fsck on! Even I, over here on the right side of the Pond, know most of those names and their political affiliations. If somebody thought that, e.g, Pat Buchanan or G. Gordon Goddamn Liddy, ferchrissake!, were "extreme left" -- should such an obviously nutball opinion influence the at least semblance of a rational discussion we're having here? To think so, one would have to be almost as much of a nutball oneself, AFAICS. Christian R. Conrad Of course, who am I to point fingers? I'm in the "Information Technology" business, prima facia evidence that there's bats in the bell tower. -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=27764\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #33,437 by tonytib 3/25/02 10:16:55 PM Reply	Do some reading, CRC The linked article does not give ANY details on exactly how Nunberg characterized individual politicians. All it mentions are a couple actors, and I don't know (or care) enough about their politics to kow if I'd agree. And, you completely missed my point -- no one will ever "scientifically prove" bias or the lack thereof. A related point is that this should've been posted in politics, since this is a political question, not here. So, I'll do my part and won't contribute any more to the making the Open Forum the second political forum. Tony
Post #33,470 by boxley 3/26/02 11:02:30 AM Reply	I think the article is misguided Is there a lot of right wing shows in the cable industry? Yes. What is the audience share compared to broadcast, pretty small. The broadcast network news has a bias but not an agenda. If Joe schmoo broadcaster has a story about women, he approaches NOW national org for women for a balanced viewpoint without realizing that NOW is not a centric organization. The major newsies think that what we in the netherland of the country call leftist organisations are centered in the middle and quote them as such. That is where the media bias comes in. thanx, bill TAM ARIS QUAM ARMIPOTENS
Post #33,505 by CRConrad 3/26/02 3:15:22 PM Reply	What if it's they who are right, and you who are wrong? Given what everybody else in the world knows for a fact -- namely that the average American is politically somewhere slightly to the right of Attila the Hun -- that seems eminently plausible... Christian R. Conrad Of course, who am I to point fingers? I'm in the "Information Technology" business, prima facia evidence that there's bats in the bell tower. -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=27764\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #33,506 by boxley 3/26/02 3:19:19 PM Reply	more rednecks than alan aldas over here. TAM ARIS QUAM ARMIPOTENS

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