Re: MD Quality and Bias In Commercial Media

From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Thu Jan 20 2005 - 14:33:28 GMT

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    Hi MSH, Ant, All,
     
    > msh asked:
    > > Can you at least provide a specific report that supports your
    > > opinion, one with verifiable references, and maybe even include a
    > > little analysis of your own? Otherwise, it's very difficult to
    > > believe that you are serious about investigating this issue.
    >
    > Instead of a response, we get The Holden Circularity:
    > How about providing some evidence that the media doesn't have a
    > liberal bias?

    Instead of response, MSH disappears behind a cloud of smoke in a desperate
    attempt to avoid engaging in debate.

    > msh says:
    > How does one prove a negative? You're the one making a positive
    > claim, that the media are biased, that they follow a "liberal" or
    > anti-Bush agenda.

    In debate, "Be it resolved that the mainstream media has a liberal bias,"
    the opponent is obligated to convince the audience that the charge isn't
    true. That you or won't or can't speaks for itself.

    > As evidence, you've referred us to Goldberg's
    > book. Ant McWatt beat me to it, and provided some good evidence
    > refuting Goldberg's one testable assertion, that the media identify
    > (label) people as "conservative" far more than they identify liberals as
    > "liberal," thus supposedly suggesting that conservatives are out of the
    > mainstream, on the fringe, way out there and whacky.

    As evidence I referred you to website replete with evidence that the media
    have a leftist bias. If you refuse to accept the evidence, that's your
    problem not mine.
     
    > What is your response to Ant's refutation of this?

    Ant's response is that nothing is to be believed unless it's follows the
    format required for a PhD thesis. That eliminates 99 percent of everything
    written.

    Regards,
    Platt

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