Can't Find Great Hits?? 12/06 Finish those fulfilling hits Friday!!!

turkalufagus · Dec 7, 2013

Tribune said: ↑

(1) He wants an expression of relative, rather than absolute bias. So two articles might be horribly slanted, but if they tilt to the same direction in the same degree, he wants them judged as if they were both without bias.

(2) In another forum, Mr. West had emphasized that direct quotations should not be regarded as part of the article's editorial bias, even if all the quotations were taken from biased sources on a single side of the issue.

Turns out that a more subtle touch was required: I am allowed -- nay, expected -- to get a little inside the head of the author and determine why the quotations were selected.

I had no problem at all with the usual spectrum of US politics (liberal vs conservative). My biggest problems were on things like sensationalist bias. To me, 95% of the media are sensationalistic anyway, and it was hard for me to decide how many bloody flags waving were equal to a certain number of bodies stacked like cordwood.
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For 4 and half tenths of a squid? Aww hell no.

manzician · Dec 7, 2013

Nvm

Can't Find Great Hits?? 12/06 Finish those fulfilling hits Friday!!!

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