The politics of perspective

Why do we doubt what we/they know?

Published on January 13, 2007 By Rightwinger In Politics

Now that I want them, I can't find these posts, or even the article, which may have been deleted. Sorry...

I was on here somewhere a while back, and left a comment about Iranian weapons, fresh out of the factory, having been captured in Iraq, provided by the Iranians to the insurgency.
Someone doubted the veracity of my statement, and smugly asked me to provide a link. In the time between my log ons, drmiler kindly provided said link, which took the user to the ABC News site, which had the story.

Someone else later came on and left the comment that they had expected the link to take them to "Rush Limbaugh's site", or something like that. Apparently, since it was ABC's site, though, it was true.....if it HAD been Limbaugh's site, or Fox News, perhaps....it wouldn't have been? It would have been a lie? But since the MSM backs it up....that makes it okay.

What makes our "biased media" more truthful than the other guy's "biased media"?

Not sure why I wrote this, or even where I was going with it, but the thing just stuck in my craw, you know?

Comments

Jewbu

on Jan 15, 2007

Hello All,

It is interesting, isn't it. I think every media outlet has its point of view. Some try to be as unbiased as possible, I believe, others are fairly blatant in their bias. I often read news from many different outlets and see the "truth" as being somewhere in between. Of course, truth itself hs isssues, but that's another thread.

Be well.

Dr Guy

on Jan 15, 2007

What makes our "biased media" more truthful than the other guy's "biased media"?

Probably the same thing that makes people believe what they read on the Puffington Host to be a gospel, while what is written on freepers to be stupid propaganda.

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