An unpopular truth about the news you read

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Orson Scott Card on lies, damned lies, and election campaign reporting

OK, so you think Card is a religious fundamentalist.  In many ways, you may be right.

You may consider Card a homophobe.  I doubt he sees it that way, but you're within your rights to say that too.  If you're gay, I doubt the practical distinction matters to you.

Neither of those change the fact that what he has to say on this particular issue — honesty and objectivity in journalism — is perfectly true.  Judge the message, not the messenger.

Comments

[koyote.livejournal.com]

hahahahaha! Sorry, but is to laugh.

1: the housing bubble and potential crisis have been reported for years. In the past week I've been looking at archived articles since 2002. The ADMINISTRATION spokespeople and "employees" denied the bubble existing even in potential for years.

2: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac haven't just been giving money to someone's pet "evildoers" in the Democratic Party. They're pretty equal opportunity.

3: I've seen the so called liberal media go along with some pretty asinine republican led witch hunts. The media isn't secretly controlled by communazidemocratdevils. From misreporting the 2000 election to clinton's sex life to ignoring Bush's military service record in favor or trying to armchair judge Kerry's actions in combat, the lack of liberal conspiracy is pretty evident.

4: the media is controlled by a profit motive. end of story. Whenever profit becomes central and truth, health, well being become secondary, bad shit happens. We have a corporate profit driven insurance, media, health care, and housing complex that doesn't *care* about right and wrong, health and welfare of people. Adam Smith and Thomas Jefferson were both VERY clear on this. If you think of the media as coporate instead of somehow marxist liberal (is to laugh) then a lot more becomes clear.

Card isn't entirely wrong, the reporting on many things has sucked wind. But to ignore everything that happens that isn't damaging to a certain subset of the right to try and convince yourself that there's a liberal conspiracy is silly. Analyze ALL the data.