tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post3566236234421050614..comments2023-10-16T07:13:12.123-05:00Comments on A plain blog about politics: More on That Awful NYT Rosen ArticleJonathan Bernsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15931039630306253241noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-56563709608458081262012-04-17T01:49:25.249-05:002012-04-17T01:49:25.249-05:00I'm a crazed anti-commie, so please call me by...I'm a crazed anti-commie, so please call me by the full backyardfoundry:<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backyard_furnace<br /><br />Your arguments are reasonable and I've read them before (as well as some of the studies) but consider (broken-record-alert) the Zimmerman/Martin example and your recent post about Drum's ignorant-poll-response-whinging. Most people are rationally ignorant about most politics, so they see that the Reverend civil rights leader Sharpton is on a tear and all these people are calling Zimmerman a murderer and offering bounties for him. Wingers helpfully offer context about his escapades: Brawley, Mangum, Jena 6, etc. which will raise questions about his integrity. Most MSM viewers won't be able to remember his track record (and become suspicious of the whole thing) and the MSM isn't doing much to balance this ignorance and is actively selling the idea of Zimmerman as racist white murderer of defenseless black kid.<br /><br />I'm sure that a social-scientist:<br />http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/science/08tier.html?_r=1 could develop metrics that would make this story look like straight up reportage, but it doesn't look that way to me. It's impossible to escape one's biases.backyardfoundrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-57892443460471619562012-04-15T11:51:09.709-05:002012-04-15T11:51:09.709-05:00backyard,
It is absolutely true that most reporte...backyard,<br /><br />It is absolutely true that most reporters/correspondents are liberals. Lots of good evidence on that. <br /><br />That does not, however, prove that the output of "neutral" newspapers and TV news contains a liberal bias. Two different questions. (Nor does the fact that TV news and most newspapers are owned by large corporations prove that they'll have a conservative bias, for that matter).<br /><br />That empirical studies of the "neutral" media tend to show is that their biases are institutional, not ideological or partisan.Jonathan Bernsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15931039630306253241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-24623333337408309082012-04-14T04:34:38.667-05:002012-04-14T04:34:38.667-05:00"... but it's rarely the product of... &q..."... but it's rarely the product of... "<br /><br />When this number gets below 60% that will be a little more believable.<br /><br />http://dailycaller.com/2010/08/28/obama-democrats-got-88-percent-of-2008-contributions-by-tv-network-execs-writers-reporters/<br /><br />When liberals want to deride a claim or argument, their first move is to ask if it came from a "winger."backyardfoundrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-65791617188331200492012-04-13T12:32:43.764-05:002012-04-13T12:32:43.764-05:00Though I'm happy we have 24 hour news stations...Though I'm happy we have 24 hour news stations, this is definitely one of their drawbacks. Non-news becomes news because it helps fill the time with something that fits the 'new' definition of news (while failing the 'significance' part). So now we have fake outrage over <a href="http://moderatepoli.blogspot.com/2012/04/ludicrous-attacks-of-day.html" rel="nofollow">piddly remarks</a>. The only thing that holds me back from wishing for real news is that real news is usually bad for someone or a whole lot of people. Sigh--I guess I'll stick with trumped up schlock.ModeratePolihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01721945380057992971noreply@blogger.com