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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:
  • Shows clear right-wing bias?
  • Shows clear left-wing bias?
  • Is completely unbiased?

Posted by G lib on 2005-07-11 14:34:39 +0000
Experts fear 'endless' terror war: Analysts say al-Qaida is mutating into a global insurgency. How about this one?

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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, <a href="http://www.buchanan.org/">Buchanan</a> 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, <a href="http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=9868">TAP</a>, on how <i>The Washington Times</i> editorial board has been steered by it's publisher, the Rev. Moon.

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