>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
Oh wow, that ended up being a novel.....


But a good one, and it pretty well sums up a lot of what I think about media bias.

To build on your point, I think at this stage much of the media is based on laziness. Rather than try to do real research about a story, they're content to haul in an "expert" who's on the payroll of one party or the other, give them 2-4 minutes to bleat their talking points, then maybe grab an "expert" from the other party, let them talk for 2-4 minutes, and then spend the rest of the time picking apart the talking points with idle speculation.

These days I don't really know where to go for unbiased coverage. PBS is pretty good, but even they are degenerating into the "let's get a red shirt and a blue shirt, and let 'em duke it out" style of "journalism". The Real News is pretty good, but they also seem fairly inconsistent, and I'm not sure how credible they are.

These days I see bias in essentially every reporter, to the point where I wish they'd just put (R) or (D) after their name so I don't have to try to guess (not that it's hard in most cases).

The whole trend often has me very worried about the future cohesiveness of the country -- I talk with Republicans, and I read RedState from time to time, and they don't just have a different theory of government, they have a different take on the facts, on history, on morality, on what issues the country faces, on what the causes are, and what issues take priority. In short, "liberals" and "conservatives" are getting close to becoming different cultures.

I used to think the Internet would help combat that effect, but it seems to just be worsening it instead -- people can now totally self-filter information so they only see things that reinforce their viewpoint (and I'll freely admit, I'm pretty bad about that myself).

The fact that there's any kind of close race going on in this election is proof of that in my mind. How people could be supporting the Republican party, no matter what sock puppet candidate they nominated, is beyond me -- and yet there's apparently a good solid 45% of people out there who disagree with me.

There are plenty of people who see Obama as some sort of demon who'll eat your children, and I can't fathom why.

I guess it's just people's own bias, reinforced by a partisan press.

Too bad the press gave up on trying to report the truth because the reality has a well-known liberal bias.

this is great its like a parody but not! they are hard core about what they believe and thats great.. it so much more funny that its for real (yeah its sort of scary but this sort of stuff makes the world more colorful and entertaining)

"you'll eat your children"
"oh yes you will"