[lit-ideas] Re: Study: Media coverage has favored Obama campaign
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 15:35:25 -0330
Quoting Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> In a critical thinking course many years ago, I had the students choose
> editorials to asses and write a response to. The most common critique
> was always that it was biased. They seemed to think that having a
> strong opinion and expressing it was somehow unseemly in a newspaper.
>
> An aside, but related to the course. When I inherited it, it was
> called Straight Thinking and Argument . Under pressure from the people
> in Gender Studies, the philosophy department changed the name of the
> course. It seems that 'straight' thinking was too controversial for
> them...why limit our students to 'straight' thinking' when there are so
> many other kinds?
What a queer thought!
Walter O.
Monroe Beardsley Professor of Logic and Wafting Argument
>
> Ursula,
> (depends on whether you're talking about a Canadian or a U.S. nickel...)
>
>
>
> David Ritchie wrote:
> > One of the things I wanted to discover when I ran a seminar on the
> > history of the newspaper, is where this idea of "balance" came from.
> > It's not there at all in the beginning of newspapers, or even in the
> > middle. I think it's a rather strange idea, one which I went along
> > with when I worked for a newspaper, but the editor was constantly
> > reminding me how the rules go. My version of things was no doubt
> > derived from E.H. Carr--there are no "balanced" or "objective"
> > historians; you read the historian and then you are in a position to
> > read the history. The journalist selects evidence, why pretend
> > otherwise? There are rules of interpretation, but this business of
> > "balance" is kind of strange.
> >
> > David Ritchie,
> > wondering whether "five cents worth" is a credit or a debit in
> > Portland, Oregon
> >
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