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Posted by bizquig3000 on 2005-07-10 21:48:26 +0000

Just curious...

I was thinking about this the other day (and to be fair I guess I should do this as well), for the sake of argument, anybody care to throw up three different news links that, in their own opinion: [list=1] [*] Shows clear right-wing bias? [*] Shows clear left-wing bias? [*] Is completely unbiased? [/list]

Posted by G lib on 2005-07-11 14:34:39 +0000
[url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8524679/]Experts fear 'endless' terror war: Analysts say al-Qaida is mutating into a global insurgency[/url]. How about this one? ________________ --Feminazi

Posted by Luther Mahoney on 2005-07-12 03:30:37 +0000
The AP, along w/ the quotes from the ex CIA guy brings out the liberal bias in the end: "Scheuer, who headed the CIA’s bin Laden unit for nine years, sees a different way out — through U.S. foreign policy. He said he resigned last November to expose the U.S. leadership’s “willful blindness” to what needs to be done: withdraw the U.S. military from the Mideast, end “unqualified support” for Israel, sever close ties to Arab oil- state “tyrannies.”

Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-07-12 18:23:36 +0000
1. The Washington Times, NewsMax, FoxNews, 2. The Village Voice, The Pheonix, the Weekly Dig 3. Official AP Press reports, Reuters, and the BBC.

Posted by tgl on 2005-07-13 14:30:48 +0000
I like to call that "reporting". Do you think that the AP skew Scheuer's remarks in order to promote a global socialist agenda? Please. Ending "unqualified support" for Israel is a liberal idea? Does that make Pat Buchanon a liberal? It's isolationist. Most of the disgruntled, former CIA analysts are isolationists. A decidedly non-liberal viewpoint.

Posted by tgl on 2005-07-13 14:49:26 +0000
It's all relative. Read everything you can get your hands on and decide for yourself. e.g.: I would call The Economist a conservative rag, however, I know of plenty of people who feel they've been drifting to the left. I might be labeled an East Coast Liberal Elitist for reading The Atlantic Monthly, however, I know plenty of people who feel it's an apology sheet for the right.

Posted by tgl on 2005-07-13 14:53:02 +0000
On second thought, Buchanan probably does give unqualified support to Israel, it being that other great democracy founded under god. My point is still the same: those are isolationists views which clash with classical liberal ideas.

Posted by tgl on 2005-07-13 14:56:35 +0000
A piece in the decidedly liberal rag, TAP, on how The Washington Times editorial board has been steered by it's publisher, the Rev. Moon.

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