tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156536327610779049.post140407169842517984..comments2024-02-23T11:23:45.971-05:00Comments on Lost Motorcyclist: Fox News North Backs Down, is Canada Safe from Brainwashing?Lost Motorcyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08873504561959138792noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156536327610779049.post-51323033633810936402010-12-18T08:01:52.809-05:002010-12-18T08:01:52.809-05:00Here's an interesting survey about misleading ...Here's an interesting survey about <a href="http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/brunitedstatescanadara/671.php?nid=&id=&pnt=671&lb=&source=cmailer" rel="nofollow">misleading information</a> in the 2010 U.S. election campaign.<br /><br />'<i>Those who watched Fox News almost daily were significantly more likely than those who never watched it to believe that most economists estimate the stimulus caused job losses (12 points more likely), most economists have estimated the health care law will worsen the deficit (31 points), the economy is getting worse (26 points), most scientists do not agree that climate change is occurring (30 points), the stimulus legislation did not include any tax cuts (14 points), their own income taxes have gone up (14 points), the auto bailout only occurred under Obama (13 points), when TARP came up for a vote most Republicans opposed it (12 points) and that it is not clear that Obama was born in the United States (31 points).</i><br /><br />'Consider your sources.'Madeyehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02593933575568389288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156536327610779049.post-77538217928870882382010-10-14T17:39:59.087-04:002010-10-14T17:39:59.087-04:00I swear, if I hear once more about how left-biased...I swear, if I hear once more about how left-biased the Canadian media is, I'm gonna throw up!<br /><br />By 'left leaning' those fulminating right wingers must mean any coverage that does not accord with their own mean-spirited ideology. They want '<i>fair and balanced</i>' reporting in the mode of FoxNews; anything else is, by their definition, '<i>left leaning</i>.'<br /><br />Because the Canadian media in general (or on average) does not consistently bang the drum for the oversimplified approaches of privatization (of everything), lower taxes (on everything), deregulation (of anything still regulated), a reduced role for government (except in propaganda), elimination of as many social programs as possible, yet another set of 'Wars' on everything from drugs, welfare bums, the homeless, to the imaginary spectre of crime ('Law and Order'!), significantly increased military spending (and using those weapons), the Canadian media is, obviously and unquestionably, biased to the left.<br /><br />If anything, I find there has been a increasing bias to the right,a bias which includes increased shallowness of debate and increased acrimony.Madeyehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02593933575568389288noreply@blogger.com