tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7180592942896724433.post8567259251027368166..comments2023-12-13T05:02:37.426-05:00Comments on Pushed to the Left and Loving It: The Problem With the Media May Not be Lack of BalanceEmily Deehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08354341672810615468noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7180592942896724433.post-10501858043102178932011-12-11T14:15:35.979-05:002011-12-11T14:15:35.979-05:00This obsessive need for balance will always favor ...This obsessive need for balance will always favor the more extreme view. Even when we place facts alongside insane ramblings, we actively shift the center of the debate off towards the nut jobs perspective. The center should always be the facts, let opinions fall on either side at whatever distance they naturally lay. Then people can actually judge who is closer to reality, not some ever shifting center which legitimizes factual opinion by shouting left wing bias! There's a reason faux news shouts 'fair and balanced' from the rooftops, because as long as they contribute to one half of the equation a center still technically exists, even if it no longer represents the average or populist opinion, or anything sane and rational for that matter.N.M.Levesquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06473801377995007024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7180592942896724433.post-82391560282872795462011-12-10T19:05:25.458-05:002011-12-10T19:05:25.458-05:00I often wonder what is the motivation for the Step...I often wonder what is the motivation for the Stephen Harpers, Tony Clements and Jason Kenneys (etcetera) of Canada. Do they just like to hate for the sake of hating? Do they just like to destroy for the sake of destroying? <br /><br />To take a beautiful thing, that is appreciated by all, and to smash it to bits is an act that would appeal to an adolescent sociopath. Is this what the Harper Government amounts to? A collection of like minded adolescent sociopaths?<br /><br />Or maybe the Harper government operatives are just greedy, and desire lucrative jobs as corporate board directors, corporate lobbyists or think tank executives once their adolescent political ambitions have been spent?<br /><br />Regardless, history will not be kind to this dim gang.Tuxedoramahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08862186976958203208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7180592942896724433.post-56666462536036683722011-12-10T16:51:59.172-05:002011-12-10T16:51:59.172-05:00Jymn. I'm not sure but I believe that she sol...Jymn. I'm not sure but I believe that she sold Huffington for a lot of money. I thought she mentioned something like that on Bill Maher's program. I've been surprised with the content of Huffington Canada myself. And yes Glover really said that BeijingEmily Deehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08354341672810615468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7180592942896724433.post-59812611671434371302011-12-10T13:15:16.061-05:002011-12-10T13:15:16.061-05:00I had no idea Shelly Glover made that statement. H...I had no idea Shelly Glover made that statement. How do journalists keep a straight face?Beijing Yorkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05579118045254845839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7180592942896724433.post-66262683395803831042011-12-10T11:10:13.282-05:002011-12-10T11:10:13.282-05:00Arianna should look at her own Canadian operation ...Arianna should look at her own Canadian operation and think again. Our best progressive voices are virtually silent on that site while Sun Media writers and Blogging Tories too often dominate the opinion pieces, thankfully leaving the reportage fairly neutral. Huffington Post brings with it a 'centre-left' paradigm. In a country starved for progressive voices in the media, why shut them out from a known progressive source?Jim Parretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com