It is up to us to not say "FAUX SNOOZE IZ DE DEBBILLLLL!!!111ONE!!ELEVEN!", but to sniff out that kernel of truth in other sources, or just go do our own damn reporting, and speak up and say what the truth is from our own (Kantian) POV.
The tag line you point to is ad hominem. The semantic line is "X *is* something" vs. "X *did* thus-and-so." There's a lot of syntactic sugar in the tag line, but when you take a machete to it, you're saying "Fox News == Alz victim", which frankly is not only false and ad hominem, it's insulting to Jimmy Doohan, runnerwolf's grandma, and a few other people.
*Everybody* is biased. You're biased against Fox News. I am too, but differently so. I am biased towards truth and beauty and peace and love and liberty and music. I think the key going forward is to be honest and up-front about those biases. Rupert Murdoch is not. I try to be as much as possible.
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Date: 2011-05-13 04:06 pm (UTC)The tag line you point to is ad hominem. The semantic line is "X *is* something" vs. "X *did* thus-and-so." There's a lot of syntactic sugar in the tag line, but when you take a machete to it, you're saying "Fox News == Alz victim", which frankly is not only false and ad hominem, it's insulting to Jimmy Doohan,
*Everybody* is biased. You're biased against Fox News. I am too, but differently so. I am biased towards truth and beauty and peace and love and liberty and music. I think the key going forward is to be honest and up-front about those biases. Rupert Murdoch is not. I try to be as much as possible.