Re: MD Quality and Bias In Commercial Media

From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sat Jan 22 2005 - 13:12:54 GMT

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    Hi Anthony,

    > Platt Holden stated January 21st:
    >
    > >First, I think your reference to "credible academic source" supports my
    > >contention that you look to formal scholarship for credence.
    >
    > Ant McWatt replies:
    >
    > Platt,
    >
    > Are really you saying that Bill Hicks and that "singing group" from
    > Liverpool had formal scholarship for their respective arts? Informal or
    > formal intellectual quality - what is it to be?

    I don't know. You tell me. How do you identify intellectual quality?

    > More from Platt January 21st:
    >
    > >Second, assigning motives to an author is tricky business.
    >
    > Agreed.
    >
    > >But if that is to be a
    > >criteria, the following sentence near the beginning of Nunberg's critique
    > >immediately revealed an anti-conservative bias: "-- the MRC has cooked the
    > >books in a way that even an Arthur Andersen account would blush to own up
    > >to." A weak attempt at humor that belies any claim to objectivity.
    >
    > That line "The MRC has cooked the books in a way that even an Arthur
    > Andersen account would blush to own up to" was a concluding line not a
    > presumption. Look up the webpage.

    I did. That comment comes in the first three paragraphs, before he even
    begins to make his case. Check it out yourself.
     
    > It still remains that to keep any credibilty regards the MRC and therefore
    > Goldberg will require some high quality supporting sources - on your part -
    > at some point.

    Not knowing what you consider "high quality supporting sources," here's
    just a beginning list of sources used as references by the MRC:

    George Washington University
    Smith College
    US New & World Report
    Editor & Publisher
    California State University
    Indiana University
    American Society of Newspaper Editors
    Princeton Survey Research Center
    Los Angeles Times

    So what's the problem?

    Best regards,
    Platt
     

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