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memestryker1 year, 1 month ago
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WaPo has been an unabashed left-leaning tool for a very long time, pc25. This is nothing new.
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My family and friends write LTEs to the Post and Times, and the Post rarely prints anything that is not embraced by the left. The Times will print both, although some consider it right-leaning overall. I can actually point to specific examples where WaPo printed left-biased material based on bad data, if you're interested. But it sounds like you're already in the know.-
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mesodude1 year, 1 month ago
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I don't claim to be unbiased but my opinion was based on the poster's statements--which are there in black in white for all to read. Meme seems to claim that one paper is more biased than the other based only on anecdotal evidence. Meme's observations and third person accounts are not ironclad proof that the Times is more moderate than the Post.
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memestryker1 year, 1 month ago
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There have been recent analyses on their biased actions--one showed a 10,000 attendee-Obama fundraiser on the front page, with a 30,000-attendee Palin fundraiser in an inside section, and even in the story on the Palin fundraiser, it quickly switched over and continued focusing on the Obama one.
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Some memorable standouts are a piece based on claims made by Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition which presented such badly skewed statistics as to make them laughable, and no one checked them out; an opinion again based not on available statistics but on partisan hype written by PG state's atty. Glen Ivey; and another stands out that was also based completely on partisan hype and not available statistics by MD Del. Currie. Remember that WaPo itself tried to get someone from the "right" on staff to self-correct its own perceived bias.
We're all biased. It's part of the human condition. (Or do you really think your endless ad hominem attacks, name-calling, and mocking are unbiased?) And I still read the Post and other major newspapers--I just know to look deeper whenever I read a story about something where I'm personally familiar with the statistics.
What makes it funny for me is I'm accused of being on both the right and the left because I don't glue myself to partisan platforms--I stick to issues.-
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mesodude1 year, 1 month ago
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I don't think you fully understand the concept of bias, meme. Let's say we agree that the Post leans left and the Times leans right. Just because you *feel* that based on your research, the Post is more biased than the Times doesn't make it so. What criteria are you using to compare the two publications because it's apparent that you've been studying one publication more than the other. That's *bias* and that makes your research (as it were) tainted. Your approach to drawing a comparison is not methodical or scientific.
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And you and Endo both have really poor reading comprehension. I never claimed to be unbiased but that's irrelevant because biases can't change facts. Your information was anecdotal. The fact that you've read some studies suggesting that the Post leans left is unremarkable. We already know that. What we don't know (based on *your* comments, anyway) is that the Post is more biased than the Times. You do not provide any compelling information to prove this other than your opinions and your research--which are based on your biases. -
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