07-06-2017, 09:48 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-07-2017, 12:07 AM by Bob Butler 54.)
Just for laughs, I confirmed a memory of red beliefs that NPR is a biased blue news source. Here's a Daily Signal piece saying that Trump Should End Government Funding of NPR’s Biased News The Republicans did cut a large part of NPR's subsidy a while back. NPR just has an urban academic attitude which demands they tell tales from that perspective. Mind you, they may have the least arrogant least in-your-face presentation style imaginable for a biased spinning group, but they're still a biased spinning group. (This isn't to say the Daily Signal doesn't spin as well.)
A brief visit to The Daily Banter's home page shows them to be a biased blue partisan web site as well. Your quoting them is similar to someone red leaning quoting Breitbart. There are some sites that are so biased that those of opposite spin will automatically reject anything they say. You, naturally, would accept an extreme blue spinning site without question. Me, I'll watch for spin in a site as innocuous as NPR.
You are not going to prove that anyone supporting blue side is unbiased by quoting biased blue sites. Oh, biased sites can convince the already convinced. They are also going to cause allergic reactions to those convinced the other way, while everybody bases propaganda on a base of truth. You can quote a blue spun site saying that the red spun site is spun, but that doesn't begin to suggest that there aren't spun sites out there, and it is not hard to find a red spun site saying that the blue spun site is spun.
My viewpoint suggests that finding a site that isn't spinning is the hard task, and it is quite possible to compare and contrast how various sites spin. The country is so divided and partisan that it is nigh on improper to not take a side and spin. How can one not have an opinion about the country's mess?
But I'm not going to convince someone who is so blue partisan that he sees blue as true.
I am dismayed that there are supposed patriots out there who didn't recognize the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence. The self evident truths are nigh on holy writ to me.
A brief visit to The Daily Banter's home page shows them to be a biased blue partisan web site as well. Your quoting them is similar to someone red leaning quoting Breitbart. There are some sites that are so biased that those of opposite spin will automatically reject anything they say. You, naturally, would accept an extreme blue spinning site without question. Me, I'll watch for spin in a site as innocuous as NPR.
You are not going to prove that anyone supporting blue side is unbiased by quoting biased blue sites. Oh, biased sites can convince the already convinced. They are also going to cause allergic reactions to those convinced the other way, while everybody bases propaganda on a base of truth. You can quote a blue spun site saying that the red spun site is spun, but that doesn't begin to suggest that there aren't spun sites out there, and it is not hard to find a red spun site saying that the blue spun site is spun.
My viewpoint suggests that finding a site that isn't spinning is the hard task, and it is quite possible to compare and contrast how various sites spin. The country is so divided and partisan that it is nigh on improper to not take a side and spin. How can one not have an opinion about the country's mess?
But I'm not going to convince someone who is so blue partisan that he sees blue as true.
I am dismayed that there are supposed patriots out there who didn't recognize the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence. The self evident truths are nigh on holy writ to me.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.