[lit-ideas] Re: Study: Media coverage has favored Obama campaign
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 19:35:37 -0600
RP:
And who they are; and who is funding them; and where their results are
published. Details, details...
RP is obviously being satanic in his call for details. I totally agree with
Eric, minus, of course, his insistence on "balance", which seems to me
totally unbalanced. Not that Eric himself is unbalanced, rather that the
idea that such a thing as non-prejudicial observation is even possible (Oh
Lord, I can already hear Walter paging through his Kant.) How could any
human being not be prejudicial in anything she thinks, believes, wants,
values? How could she have ever stepped outside herself to become to such a
balancer ? To me, balance means that PBS and FOX are equally available to
all. The fact that FOX has ten thousand times more viewer-listeners than
PBS doesn't have anything to do with balance if both are equally available
to all. What people with different values from those of most FOX fans
(please understand that I have no idea whether Eric is a FOX fan or not, but
if he is, then so what?), my point is that there is no way to make judgments
apart from whom we are. So what's newsworthy is probably determined by age
10. This is an undisputable fact, btw. Unless you're a Kantian, of course.
Mike Geary
Memphis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Paul" <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 1:57 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Study: Media coverage has favored Obama campaign
John McCreery wrote
Thus, mere reference to "scholars and researchers" has no standing as
evidence unless we are told just what it is that they are proposing.
And who they are; and who is funding them; and where their results are
published. Details, details...
Robert Paul
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