According to my estimation, you can't trust FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) anymore than you can trust Fox News. Because like Fox News, FAIR focuses on the issues they support and ignore the issues they don't care about. For example, FAIR made a big protest about how the "news" media rarely mentioned the potential dangers of the nuclear-powered Cassini space probe. Yet at the same time, FAIR refused to mention how that same media rarely mentioned the Delta Clipper reusable rocket program -- a program that involved a NON-NUCLEAR, pollution-free spacecraft. I contacted FAIR about the Delta Clipper issue. But of course they completely ignored me. I have to conclude from this that FAIR is filled to brim with anti-nuclear reactionaries who hate advanced technology to death.
Yes, yes, yes! I know everybody is biased! And I also know that a lot of folks love to feign fairness and accuracy and don't care what a scam that is. But I still insist that these media-types be truthful in at least on regard: That they're not fair and balanced. Of course as things stand now, it looks like FAIR and Fox News will continue to share their desire to lie to the public about their "fairness" and "balance."
Yes, yes, yes! I know everybody is biased! And I also know that a lot of folks love to feign fairness and accuracy and don't care what a scam that is. But I still insist that these media-types be truthful in at least on regard: That they're not fair and balanced. Of course as things stand now, it looks like FAIR and Fox News will continue to share their desire to lie to the public about their "fairness" and "balance."
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Re: (Un)Fairness and (In)Accuracy in Reporting
Sun, July 29, 2007 - 3:06 PMi'm with you. (i mean, i think i am.) it seems to me that if everyone were more honest about their bias, the result would be to actually prompt more people to seek out the facts for themselves... or it would at least weed out the obvious sheep from the people who really care. i say let the opinions live on, as long as they're presented as such, and not some bullshit claim to "the" truth.
i was going to play devils advocate and mention the more liberal-biased group, but then i realized that's who you were referring to. AIM (Accuracy In Media) is equally delusional in its assertions of unbiased reporting, but on the right-wing end of it. i just automatically assumed that was who you were referring to, because so often "progressive-minded" sites, like tribe, are full of left-wing liberal propagandists who (in my opinion) are just as bad (if not in some cases worse) than their counterparts when it comes to that self-serving notion of fairness and truth. it's nice to hear someone else who can see the bullshit and the truth in both sides.
