Is the Young Turks the most balanced show in america no the world | 26 comments (26 topical, 0 hidden)
That is a great idea. (none / 0)
Along the lines of the 2-dimensional left-right, authoritarian-libertarian spectrum of political affiliation there could be a spectrum of press neutrality (or press accuracy, etc.) that would contain one axis of left vs right and another one of factual vs convoluted. IMHO you can argue, though, that rarely the media absolutely and unequivocally lie to the public. In most of the cases they just omit factoids or stress some facts more than others to create the narrative they are told to present to their audience.

One other thing: I cannot understand why Carville is presented as a liberal at all. Maybe he was a liberal by 1969's establishment standards but nowadays he is just a slick spin doctor who just wants to keep the machine greased enough so that he can keep on going on MSNBC and smile and laugh about anything.

by eborujion on 11/08/2009 08:31:49 AM EST

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Not totally on the issue (none / 0)
Freedom House publishes a ranking of the freedom of the press. each year.

"The first thing Fascists usually try to do is silencing the opposition."

by opposition on 11/08/2009 09:56:25 AM EST

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woot 3rd place (none / 0)
makes sense though, our media has nothing to do with the gouvernement (not bad for a 'communist' european state ^^).Quite ironic if you realise that the largest papers in our country started out as party-affiliated publications. Even more ironic offcourse that the publications that contain quite inf ormative articles  ;about politics and economics you can get in Belgium are actually those of the unions (which are party affiliated), because they have the money to fund such studies.

by Nangijala on 11/08/2009 04:00:26 PM EST

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3rd place is still a medal (none / 0)
America on the other hand is in 20th place. Quite ironic when you always hear them shout about their freedom of speech and freedom of press.

Both seems to be better in socialist countries.

"The first thing Fascists usually try to do is silencing the opposition."

by opposition on 11/08/2009 11:39:01 PM EST

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Is the Young Turks the most balanced show in america no the world | 26 comments (26 topical, 0 hidden)