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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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9 May 2005 - 10:01 pm
I'm tired of getting balanced news. The concept is just ridiculous. There aren't always two sides to every story; in fact, there's only one side to the truth. Factually accurate stories won't present both sides of an argument. By definition, there aren't two sides to facts. A fact is just a fact.
Somehow, Americans have been persuaded that there are layers of nuance to every issue. And because of this politicians can say and do whatever they want. Nothing is right or wrong anymore. The media will simply get two perspectives on every issue and let the reader decide. But that action is irresponsible. By giving full credence to a falsehood the media is implicitly giving an endorsement to the falsehood.
Somehow in the tightening of journalistic ethics that has occurred in the past few years it has become standard practice to replace accurate reporting with balanced reporting. As long as both sides get their perspectives covered, who's going to complain, right?
Posted by on 9 May 2005 at 9:49 PM
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The Right has formed a dark alliance with post modernism to deconstruct the idea of "progress." The Right's been rampantly borrowing ideas for years now, and have recently convinced the media to join them. The Right's motivation, of course, is that if no value system or culture has merits over another, there should be no problem shoving conservatism down everyone's throats. The media's motivation is that the death of empiricism makes their job much easier. The post modernists have already moved onto post-post modernism, so who can tell what their motivation was at the time?
Posted by Charlie on 10 May 2005 - 12:00 AM