http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=80 Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:02:49 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=80&cpage=1#comment-2673 Two Types of Virtual News: Reuters and Fox - Liberal Values - Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:43:40 +0000 http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=80#comment-2673 [...] As an example of the non-real world the right wing lives in, check out the report on this story at Ed Driscoll.com. They use the recent episode in which a free lancer for Reuters altered photographs. As Reuters fired the free lancer, this hardly provides evidence of their fantasy that the mainstream media is conspiring to distort the news whenever they don’t report in the manner of the Fox News virtual fantasy world. Written by Ron ChusidLast 5 posts by Ron ChusidUS Coast Guard Arms To Protect Pronto Pup From TerrorismMurtha's Confession of a "Defeatocrat"Stephen Hawking To Explain Origin of Universe on Big ScreenWarning: Religious Media May Make You FatBig Sports Wins in Michigan Yesterday [...] [...] As an example of the non-real world the right wing lives in, check out the report on this story at Ed Driscoll.com. They use the recent episode in which a free lancer for Reuters altered photographs. As Reuters fired the free lancer, this hardly provides evidence of their fantasy that the mainstream media is conspiring to distort the news whenever they don’t report in the manner of the Fox News virtual fantasy world. Written by Ron ChusidLast 5 posts by Ron ChusidUS Coast Guard Arms To Protect Pronto Pup From TerrorismMurtha’s Confession of a “Defeatocrat”Stephen Hawking To Explain Origin of Universe on Big ScreenWarning: Religious Media May Make You FatBig Sports Wins in Michigan Yesterday [...]

]]> http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=80&cpage=1#comment-647 Why We Don’t Believe Conservative Criticism of the News, Or Conservative News - Liberal Values - Stressing The Origins of Liberalism in Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:46:57 +0000 http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=80#comment-647 [...] Townhall has an article entitled Why We Don’t Believe You which gives the conservative case for not believing the news. No need to read it all. The real reason is not that the media makes mistakes from time to time, but that conservatives don’t believe those who don’t accept their fictitious world view. They include the so-called Reuter-gate affair in which a freelancer photographer was fired by Reuters for photoshopping photos. Biased report, and the photographer was fired–hardly an argument to never trust the news media. While liberals are also critical of the mainstream media, there is a major difference. Liberals criticize the media because we want it to do a better job of getting out the truth. Conservatives attack the media in an attempt to prevent them from revealing the truth. [...] [...] Townhall has an article entitled Why We Don’t Believe You which gives the conservative case for not believing the news. No need to read it all. The real reason is not that the media makes mistakes from time to time, but that conservatives don’t believe those who don’t accept their fictitious world view. They include the so-called Reuter-gate affair in which a freelancer photographer was fired by Reuters for photoshopping photos. Biased report, and the photographer was fired–hardly an argument to never trust the news media. While liberals are also critical of the mainstream media, there is a major difference. Liberals criticize the media because we want it to do a better job of getting out the truth. Conservatives attack the media in an attempt to prevent them from revealing the truth. [...]

]]> http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=80&cpage=1#comment-190 Ron Chusid Sat, 19 Aug 2006 17:47:42 +0000 http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=80#comment-190 We do have an interesting comment on this from someone who has worked as a foreign correspondent but it wound up under the wrong post under "Honor" Killing in Italy. We do have an interesting comment on this from someone who has worked as a foreign correspondent but it wound up under the wrong post under “Honor” Killing in Italy.

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