tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post494966938527115740..comments2023-10-20T05:51:51.625-04:00Comments on The THINK 3 INSTITUTE: Neither balanced nor biasedSamuel Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post-23454610453238682022016-10-26T09:34:24.594-04:002016-10-26T09:34:24.594-04:00"Alterman's complaint is that conservativ..."Alterman's complaint is that conservatives call it bias when reporters show them to be wrong on the facts."<br /><br />Liberals are just as guilty of that. Consider the current feminist-led "gamer-gate". Making the exact same arguments politicians on the right made back in the 90s about how video games make players violent, desensitized to the pain of others, objectify women, etc., etc., etc. Even though those charges were proved false back in the 90s through a number of scientifically-based studies. Yet the feminists refuse to accept that those facts have already proven their accusations false.<br /><br />I cannot take any of these people seriously when they are all guilty of the same behaviors they denounce in others.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post-29233106702286244732016-10-25T13:33:14.504-04:002016-10-25T13:33:14.504-04:00Alterman's complaint is that conservatives cal...Alterman's complaint is that conservatives call it bias when reporters show them to be wrong on the facts. His longterm complaint is that too many news entities bend over backwards, out of a misguided sense of bipartisan fairness, <i>not</i> to call out Republicans when they seem self-evidently wrong. He would no doubt say that Clinton's policy failings pale in comparison to the more fundamental inadequacies of Trump in particular and Republicans in general -- but there is no way that can be described as an "objective" appraisal unless you agree with the premises behind it, which aren't necessarily self-evident.Samuel Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post-65073547294051594362016-10-25T09:30:02.770-04:002016-10-25T09:30:02.770-04:00""Objectivity, he insists, is not the sa...""Objectivity, he insists, is not the same as evenhandedness or neutrality. "Simple accuracy is what annoys so many conservative complainers,""<br /><br />The problem isn't so much "objectivity", but the fact that that objectivity is ONLY shown towards the right. Where is the objectivity when speaking about Clinton's many, many, many failures as the Secretary of State, or her completely do-nothing attitude as NY's junior Senator? Where is the objectivity towards the Clinton Foundation?<br /><br />It isn't the objectivity those on the right complain of, its the hypocrisy. Which is ironic, considering that the bastion of conservatism - Fox News - does the exact same thing towards the left and no conservatives complain about that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com