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Posted: Dec 27th, 2006 09:28 pm |
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Too Funny!!! That's the sort of stuff that'll sell papers. Perhaps this is the angle you ought to take on all your headlines. When the Boy Scouts sell Christmas trees next year try this: "Trees cut down and sold along Hwy 68 in Oak Ridge" That will put the tree ordinance people in high gear really quick.
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Before the Summerfield park opened, they had a problem with beavers. I'm not quite sure what happened, but one day some went down there and one of the big, male beavers was dead. Mayor Mark Brown, in his official capacity, got the job of burying the dead beaver.
I had to fight hard to resist the urge to write a story with the headline "Mayor Seen Burying Dead Body in Park."
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Posted: Dec 27th, 2006 10:01 pm |
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Your rebuttal is more of a diversion from the point, been watching O’Reilly Factor too much…. 
That a Polling organization is liberal or conservative does not immediately taint their conclusion. If you can find significant flaws in their polling process I will reconsider their conclusions. That they did the poll to prove or disprove their opinion of Fox News does not by itself say the Poll is invalid. All research starts with a premise or theory and then research either proves or disproves it.
In the case of this type of information about the only way to determine how a news organization is delivering the news is to test the information people retain. The results of this test were Fox News does a poor job of delivering the news in a “fair and balanced” manner.
There are a number of other sources that have analyzed Fox News and found it lopsidedly biased. I would mention journalism.com and its study (not a poll) that found Fox News included personal opinion in 68% of their stories versus 27% for MSNBC and 4% for CNN, but the word journalism is in the website address….
That many of these may be perceived as liberal is logical, conservative think tanks likely do not want to bite the hand that feeds them.
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Posted: Dec 27th, 2006 11:24 pm |
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S. Smith wrote:
I had to fight hard to resist the urge to write a story with the headline "Mayor Seen Burying Dead Body in Park."
Hee hee!
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Posted: Dec 28th, 2006 12:01 am |
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Media bias?
How about the bias of the News & Record...
from what I can see with this mess at the police department... it looks like some of the reporters & editors have "issues"!!
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Posted: Dec 28th, 2006 01:42 am |
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S. Smith wrote:
I had to fight hard to resist the urge to write a story with the headline "Mayor Seen Burying Dead Body in Park."
It was a dark and stormy night in Winterfield, NC. Only the cold wind whipping through the kudzu-covered pines could be heard as fear gripped this once quiet community. Wild rumors, flowing like the muddy waters of the Mississippi, touched them all. The mayor, after all, had been a friend, trusted by those who knew him. Until now, no one suspected him as the killer, but it was his shadow, his profile, that finally brought him down. You see, there was a full moon that night, and Mrs. Twigby had just returned from the Food Lion when she saw what appeared to be the silhouette of a man in the distance, beating a brown furry object with a newspaper. Could it be the mayor? She couldn't tell for sure. Over and over he flailed, finally noticing that he was being watched. Mrs. Twigby ran to the house, spilling groceries along the way and slamming the door.
Suddenly, the darkened figure grabbed a shovel and began digging a grave for the critter, which by now had been identified as a beaver. After digging frantically, with dirt flying in all directions for several minutes, the figure at last stopped to toss the beaver in the hole, and quickly began to cover him up. A passing car briefly illuminated the area, but sped away when the figure stopped and looked up with a stare that surely meant trouble.
Several hours went by, and the figure had long since disappeared into the woods, as attested by the howl of underfed hounds.
The neighbors, by now hidden behind locked doors, dared not to wander outside alone, exposing themselves to the vile beaver-murderer who had earlier ravaged the town. No one knew where in the darkness he would next appear as the figure stalked what surely would be his next victim, Mr. squirrel.
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Posted: Dec 28th, 2006 12:08 pm |
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WHE wrote: The mayor, after all, had been a friend, trusted by those who knew him. Until now, no one suspected him as the killer, but it was his shadow, his profile, that finally brought him down.
A few more postings like these, and this forum will have to be renamed the "National Enquirer Forum". In the space of a few postings, the mayor went from a nice guy doing a good deed to a sinister character killing poor little defenseless beavers". Mark, we know you're a nice guy !!
Let's get back to Sandra's original question - where do you get unbiased news? how do you get informed without being mis-informed?
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Posted: Dec 28th, 2006 01:57 pm |
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Mayor Brown is a nice guy an' a good hand with a shovel too! Hee hee! Save that headline, Sandra. You still might find some use fer it.
Meanwhile, does it seem like all these avenues o' news are bringin' us together or widenin' the gap?
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Posted: Dec 28th, 2006 03:09 pm |
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Posted: Dec 31st, 2006 02:30 pm |
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Pappy, how about few other potential headlines:
Mayor Brown digs into Summerfield's past.
Mayor uncovers a lot of dirt on Summerfield 'residents'.
Mayor says grave conditions abound in Summerfield.
Town Officials cleave to belief that 'Beaver Cleaver' is now Summerfield's Mayor.
Or, perhaps..."Beaver Found Dead; Could Wally Be Next?"
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Posted: Mar 30th, 2007 12:51 am |
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A meaningful and amusing thread. Thanks, all. I am new to these forums, but I do have something small-but-wordy to add to this discussion.
My first reaction to the original question was, well, I like the Economist magazine for news. Mostly because it does not have an entirely American focus, and I get to see what others think, and can compare with domestic news sources, e.g., newspapers, news magazines, TV news. But even the Economist is biased, it’s just that I believe they are more objective and somewhat less biased than most, or maybe just biased in more subtle ways, or maybe, if I am really honest, just biased in some of the same ways I am biased.
My second reaction to the original question was, well, gee, we are human, therefore we are biased. We all have values, principles, etc. which bias how we perceive things, how we interpret things, what we believe. News reporters are, apparently, quite human. Not necessarily, and not generally, any more or less biased than the rest of us. What I appreciate, are those who see and tell all apparent sides of a story without favoring one over the other, and reporters who TRY to be objective.
I am reminded that many “think” that scientists are objective and unbiased, but in my experience in science, they are no more objective and no less biased than anyone else, they are simply more “educated” in their field than other people are. There are some scientists, as there are some reporters, and some people, who are simply more intellectually honest than others. Although, having said that, and having spent some years trying to be objective, I must admit that maybe I am not being wholly intellectually honest either. I merely “think” and “believe” that I am honest. Which means that the best we can be is merely sincere?
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