Monday, December 17, 2007

Anti-conservative media bias? Who ya gonna call?


Apparently, these screeching fuckwits:

Sandy: The “Blogging For Bias” Challenge

Who is up for a challenge — what I am calling the JN CHALLENGE?

THE CHALLENGE — Blogging for Bias (BFB):

Right now, too much of what is written and reported in the media is not only written and reported with a positive liberal bias but openly anti-conservative as well. Why? I have no idea?

That would be correct, Sandy -- you have no idea. Whoops, I'm sorry ... I guess that question mark should have been a period. What a shame -- it reads so much better this way.

But I'm amused that Brian Lemon's co-blogger and despicable human being "MaryT" is getting on board for this. Apparently, MaryT has already forgotten about Brian's own venture into tracking down all that nefarious media bias from a few months back. So, Brian, how's that going? Whoops, I guess we'll never know.

In short, it's the attack of the airheaded, right-wing whiners, take two. Maybe it'll actually get off the ground this time.

BY THE WAY, SANDY, if you folks plan on being a bunch of pissy moaners about alleged media bias, you might want to check out how the competent people do it. Seriously, pay attention to how the folks at Media Matters report on that sort of thing so you can avoid the inevitable embarrassment when you think you've found the smoking gun based on something as asinine as, oh, a headline.

I'm just sayin'.

6 comments:

Rev.Paperboy said...

in other news, the results of the lefties are posted. You came third, the ink-stained wretches at the Beaver came fourth. I was honored with a pity nomination, which is better than a kick in the groin with a frozen mukluk

http://leftyblogs.wordpress.com/

Ti-Guy said...

If they refuse to operationalise "conservatism," then it's impossible for them to expect anyone to come up with examples of "anti-conservative bias;" it just ends up meaning highlighting anything a so-called conservative doesn't like. What they clearly want is simply a bunch of screaming rednecks harassing the CBC, which of course, is held to a higher standard responsiveness than the corporate media when it comes to dealing with complaints from the public

It think it's time the CBC be given more latitude when dealing with these kinds of attacks and that it be made clear to everyone that the only valid critique of the CBC's news division can be on the basis of journalistic good practice.

I could do this work for them better than they themselves have tried, and I think conservatism (as opposed to progressivism, which can be conservative) is generally a dead-end.

Red Tory said...

As I attempted to point out to the folks at Uambig, their premise is wrong-headed from the get-go because they don’t understand the imperatives and conceits of the press and are looking at matters through the prism of their own perceived bias. The “media bias” meme is a bit tendentious at the best of times (although clearly there are egregious exceptions), but when it comes to actual “reporting” then it’s almost always doomed to be an exercise that reveals more about the self-appointed critic than it does about the target in question.

Sometimes a headline is just a headline and while it may viewed as “critical” one way or another, it could just be a the result of someone going for a cheap play on words or an attempt to sound “clever” with no particular partisan axe to grind. Once they start “fisking” and parsing with their not-so-fine tooth combs, the results will likely be laughably hilarious as they grope and stretch to prove their preconceived impressions of bias. Of course, things like context with overall meta-narratives and so will be disregarded as inconvenient complications to the process.

E in MD said...

Three words: Fox News Channel

Red Tory said...

Uh-oh. It seems that Sandy at The Crock of the Matter has gotten all “empowered” by a little feedback in response to someone shining a little light on her cobweb infested corner of the blogosphere and is now ramping up her “Challenge” by issuing a clarion call for the wingnuts to go on a witch hunt for “liberal media bias.” (Complete with a handy list of things they can do to take action and fight this perfidious scourge.) Let the games begin!

Oh, and just to show her non-partisan cred, she’d like folks to know that she once tut-tutted that blithering dipshit Paul Jackson at the Calgary Sun for calling Dion an “utter idiot” (she thought that was “extreme and inflammatory,” even while noting herself that Dion was clueless and ignorant). Why, once she even got a little miffed with the criticism by some obscure poltroon at Halifax Daily News that Ignatieff was an “intellectual.” Well, there you go… It’s not like she doesn’t provide a fair and balanced assessment of the media herself.

Oy.

LuLu said...

Under the heading of teh funny in Unambig's comments ...

maryT said...
First, an offhand compliment to Lulu for not using her usual extremely foul language in a post.
Great frisk.