The Power of Language

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#3
hatvol96 said:
It would be much easier to discuss the power of the english languge in modern politics and media if this president actually spoke it.
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Cute but as an elected official, he is supposed to have an agenda. CNN on the otherhand...
 
#12
#12
volinbham said:
Cute but as an elected official, he is supposed to have an agenda. CNN on the otherhand...
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Have you not read history? Has the free press in our country NOT ever have an agenda? I missed where in the Constitution it required the free press to not have one. Look at all of the outlets. FNC prides itself on being "fair and balanced" but is far from that. Can we sue them for blatant false advertising? Don't just pick on CNN.
 
#15
#15
crimedawg12 said:
No, but they are still friends with benefits!
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Yeah, thanks for that! :finger3:

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#17
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CSpindizzy said:
Have you not read history? Has the free press in our country NOT ever have an agenda? I missed where in the Constitution it required the free press to not have one. Look at all of the outlets. FNC prides itself on being "fair and balanced" but is far from that. Can we sue them for blatant false advertising? Don't just pick on CNN.
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Relax Francis - just an observation. No need to bring the Constitution into it.
 
#19
#19
volinbham said:
Relax Francis - just an observation. No need to bring the Constitution into it.
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LOL. Relax? I'm not the one always bringing up some liberal media conspiracy. As to the Constitution, just a lfriendly little reminder to those who like to claim the media should be something it's not. It's funny to hear people whining about how the media is biased, slanted, has agendas, etc.
 
#21
#21
hatvol96 said:
CNN is a Ted Turner creation. Who doesn't know they have an agenda?
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Agreed . . . I think it's more a product on the media culture than anything that is intended, but it's definitely there.
 
#22
#22
CSpindizzy said:
LOL. Relax? I'm not the one always bringing up some liberal media conspiracy. As to the Constitution, just a lfriendly little reminder to those who like to claim the media should be something it's not. It's funny to hear people whining about how the media is biased, slanted, has agendas, etc.
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Hardly a liberal media conspiracy. Just an example of bias from one media outlet. I doubt you'll find many if any examples where I've suggested a liberal media conspiracy.

No claims about what the media should be especially from a legal/constitutional basis.

Finally, you're using one of your pet peeve tactics. Someone posts a comment about one entity and here you are essentially saying "everyone does it" (in this case saying most media is biased so why call out one). Don't you lecture us about doing that all the time (eg. when someone refers to democrats, Clinton, etc.)
 
#23
#23
volinbham said:
Hardly a liberal media conspiracy. Just an example of bias from one media outlet. I doubt you'll find many if any examples where I've suggested a liberal media conspiracy.

No claims about what the media should be especially from a legal/constitutional basis.

Finally, you're using one of your pet peeve tactics. Someone posts a comment about one entity and here you are essentially saying "everyone does it" (in this case saying most media is biased so why call out one). Don't you lecture us about doing that all the time (eg. when someone refers to democrats, Clinton, etc.)
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Whoa...Bama. Get the story straight first. You didn't make a claim on a legal basis but I made an observation. Seems fine for you to make one but no one else? OK.

Again, I never said the other side is doing it or everyone else is doing it. Thanks for again taking something that wasn't there and making it into your own rebuttal. I juts pointed out, you know one of those observations, that there is one media group who claims to be fair and balanced (your original point) and is far from that.
 
#24
#24
Hang on a second, since when are reporters not allowed to use adjectives? For starters the results are startling, and there is empirical evidence to back that up. Calling the evidence startling makes no judgement as to if the report is accurate, only that it is significant. Secondly, how on earth is the phrase "Watch Bush dismiss the report" a bias, it doesn't even make an assertion! If you actually WATCH it does Bush not dismiss the report!?! If anything this report has a conservative bias becuase it spends most of the report exploring the methodology (because Bush does dismiss it) of a report that even if it is off by 25% percent is still 491,250 deaths. And yet the significance of that number gets overshadowed by a debate over the president dismissing the report. So Bush waves his hand and the rabbit disapears, and the media goes woooow. And all the conservative pundits say look at how liberal the media is!
 
#25
#25
I'm not one to scream about media conspiracies, but is there really any dispute that just by virtue of the people who typically go into journalism, a majority of the media tends to lean a little to the left?
 
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