tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751454.post189679609283904393..comments2023-10-21T11:00:50.276-04:00Comments on FYI: The different types of biasUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751454.post-22191189727556715472007-03-17T18:23:00.000-04:002007-03-17T18:23:00.000-04:00"News reporting is not (or should not be) subject ..."News reporting is not (or should not be) subject to personal interference. In many ways, I think of the news as an exact science: it is based on hard facts."<BR/><BR/>Paulo, you know I have nothing but respect for what you write in here, but this is the subject where, as a journalist, the only thing I can tell you, over and over again, is that you're absolutely mistaken about how our job works.<BR/><BR/>as Alex said, and as I've said here a few times before, there's no such thing as unbiased media. just take a look at what started this discussion in the first place.<BR/><BR/>what you did was exactly what a journalist does, you took a bunch of hard facts and presented them to your audience in the way you saw fit to make what you thought was an important point. why did you choose the numbers you chose, and not the ones Smart got from the same report? personal bias, which then translated into reporting bias the moment you put them to the metaphorical paper.<BR/><BR/>unless you think of journalism as something akin to <A HREF="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/" REL="nofollow">The Smoking Gun</A> (in which case you should stop writing posts and just giving us link - and even then we could argue about your bias in chosing these links), you can't really expect news reporting to be unbiased.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751454.post-86359907061465131712007-03-17T01:37:00.000-04:002007-03-17T01:37:00.000-04:00the news media in the US and around the world is a...<I>the news media in the US and around the world is a disgrace (with very few exceptions). And I don't say that recklessly. I really believe that it is one of the worst aspects of our current society.</I><BR/><BR/><BR/>It looks you talk portuguese and english.<BR/>I will therefore reply in english ( For english speaking readers ) and in portuguese ( my mother tongue ).<BR/><BR/>I could not agree more with you.<BR/>100% Agreed.<BR/><BR/>Today media is a disgrace.<BR/><BR/>I used to watch CNN.<BR/><BR/>Just a few days before the US elections.., the fellows did broadcast a 2 hour program called :<BR/><BR/>" Broken Government : How the right went wrong ".<BR/><BR/>In a week they repeated the program at least twice.<BR/>4 hours of propaganda against the US President , GW Bush.<BR/><BR/>Their campaign did pay off.<BR/><BR/>Bush was defeated.<BR/><BR/>Is this bias legitimate ? Of course not.<BR/>People is not given a fair picture of the world around themselves.<BR/>People is brainwashed- literally.<BR/><BR/>2<BR/><BR/>International Bias.<BR/>Skynews, Britain.<BR/><BR/>I watched the Israel lebanese war throught Skynews.<BR/>Skynews biased.<BR/>During the wholle war I did not watch a single Hezzbollah soldier a single hezzbollah rocked missile.<BR/>The lebaneses were depicted as poor defenseless civilians despite the fact that from lebanon more than 100 rockets were launched against israel every day.<BR/><BR/>Ultimately the bias did pay off because israel was forced to stop the war and Syria and Hezzbollah emerged stronger than ever.<BR/><BR/>You can see in the link bellow many examples of media bias.<BR/>I am the guy who posted all those posts<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.chatarea.com/MdioOriente.f72101" REL="nofollow">Click here to see examples of media bias</A>solitarioh2005https://www.blogger.com/profile/07544419572496885437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751454.post-85869097181093394752007-03-16T13:28:00.000-04:002007-03-16T13:28:00.000-04:00Alex,Concordo. Mas nao acho que seja impossivel se...Alex,<BR/>Concordo. Mas nao acho que seja impossivel se ter uma news midia mais imparcial. A media especializada consegue ser. Outras profissoes lidam com o mesmo dilema e o resultado eh melhor.<BR/><BR/>O problemao mesmo sao as universidades, que foram dominadas pela esquerda, e ensinam os reporteres que eles tem que mudar o mundo.<BR/><BR/>Ai fica dificil.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751454.post-37359205622783881222007-03-16T09:20:00.000-04:002007-03-16T09:20:00.000-04:00paulo, na teoria e na pratica, eh tao impossivel u...paulo, na teoria e na pratica, eh tao impossivel uma midia sem bias como uma pessoa sem bias, pq a midia eh feita por pessoas. na falta do ideal, que seria uma midia neutra, a melhor opcao seria uma midia abertamente parcial, como aqui nos EUA, em que ninguem se engana achando que a fox news, por exemplo, eh um veiculo isento e imparcial. pior eh no brasil, onde os veiculos sao tao parciais quanto aqui, mas ninguem se assume. esse sim eh o pior dos dois mundos.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com