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Do Facts Even Matter?


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2012 Mar 25, 3:58pm   38,099 views  70 comments

by freak80   ➕follow (1)   💰tip   ignore  

I can't help but wonder if the following statement is true:

"In religion and politics, facts don't matter. People believe what they WANT to believe, IN SPITE of the facts."

I'm not the first person to make this observation.

I'm guilty of "wanting to believe" too.

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67   mdovell   2012 Apr 1, 12:22am  

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/nbc-launches-internal-investigation-over-trayvon-martin-case

Well if that isn't a form of a bias I don't know what is. How can you edit out what was on a 911 call and say it is OK.

A simple petition to a cable co can cause nbc channels to be dropped in many local areas.

I think zimmerman should be arrested and charged. But this isn't the first time that nbc has selectively cut out parts of what really happened to suit some other purpose. Back in the 90's whdh asked the then senator ted kennedy what he thought about a recent bombing in n. ireland. He said that it "could" have been the IRA although....cut..that's all the network needed to hear, no need to hear other possibilities.

68   freak80   2012 Apr 3, 2:33am  

I have cloud and TPB on "ignore" because I can get the exact same "inforamtion" from AM radio. No need to hear the same stuff on PatNet.

69   leo707   2012 Apr 3, 2:56am  

Cloud says

Here you go Leo. As I said even the most ardent partisan reporters and editor understand why you need 2 newspapers in any city. The most honest will tell you those they work for vote Democrat and tend to be liberal.

Leo, did you hear about RFK Jr. getting 1.5 billion from the DOE for his failed green company while his partner is working at the Department of Energy ? It is a technique called omission and the media uses it all the time.

And yet the overall message from 99% of media has a conservative bias.

Interesting... so what you are saying is that you would prefer if mainstream media organizations had an even stronger conservative bias. OK, to each their own I suppose.

I for one prefer my news to carry the lowest level of bias as possible, but that is just me.

Cloud says

Here is a good reason why we need shitty websites like Newsbusters and Evil Fox News.

So we need shitty propaganda outlets, who mostly report lies, in order to balance out the only somewhat conservative bias in the reporting of the mainstream media?

70   freak80   2012 Apr 3, 5:09am  

rootvg says

Journalism here is skewed to the left because that's what people in this area want to hear.
Journalism in north Texas is skewed to the right because that's what people there want to hear.
It's a business.

Well put.

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