Sharkansky engages in some media criticism.
From today’s Seattle Times article on a programming shake-up at radio station KIRO:
The shuffle, an attempt by KIRO to retake its once-dominant position, means listeners will hear the conservative [Dori] Monson immediately after Dave Ross, whose show airs 9 a.m.- noon weekdays.
So Monson is a conservative, but Ross isn’t labelled [the extra "l' is for liberal - Carl]. Why bother to label someone’s views when they’re middle-of-the-road (to a liberal reporter, anyway)?
Dave Ross is personally liberal enough to run for office as a Democrat. But his show isn’t a lefty version of Monson’s. His show is an actual news show. If he did some liberal version of the libertarian who happens to actually support the Republicans and big business every time show that Monson does then the label would be appropriate. But the two put on two quite different shows.
In fact, labeling them in a way that implies an equivalence, as Sharkansky seems to want, would do a disservice to readers unfamiliar with their shows: It would essentially say that they do the same thing when they do not. It would say that straight news balances out blatant conservative propaganda.
“It would say that straight news balances out blatant conservative propaganda.”
Luckily for wingnuts everywhere, Rupert Murdoch’s new ownership of The Wall Street Journal will eliminate this nagging problem. For far too long, the editorial writers have watched helplessly as the news stories contradicted the editorials. With The Rupe in charge, reality’s well-known liberal bias will finally be corrected.
Sorry, Carl, Dave Ross is out of the closet. He ran as a Democrat. When I listen to him, he’s definitely left of center. You know what they say, “When it walks like a duck and talks like a duck…”
Paddy …
You make an excellent point. There is a manifest need to correct reality. Reality is not fair and balanced. How can a democratic nation tolerate such consistent bias?
This new point of view needs to be tested at the level of the Supreme Court. If reality is not balanced how can we expect any other part of our system to be fair?
As one example, do you suppose evolution would be real if there was fair balance between right and left? So nay issues seem screwed by the bias of reality that any fair minded individual must recognize that something ust change.
I think we need legislation to require the reality of intelligent design. Experiments that seem to support Darwin’s theory should be balanced by experiments with the opposite results.
When I listen to him, he’s definitely left of center. You know what they say, “When it walks like a duck and talks like a duck…”
This is, of course, coming from someone who thinks that global warming is a hoax, Hillary Clinton is a socialist, and that victory is just around the corner in Iraq.
If Ross isn’t a liberal, then what is there to whine about?
That’s what it all boils down to: Stefan needs to whine about something, and so this is it. It just so happens that this whining plays well alongside the idea of a ‘MSM’ that has betrayed America… I mean, look, they don’t label the guy as liberal! What more evidence do you NEED? It’s like some kind of massive conspiracy to mislabel radio personalities in order to deliberately and with malice aforethought confuse pinheads like Stefan! Naughty confusing news media!