Comments on: Journalist bias put to good use; a challenge to both parties http://mindyourowndamnbusinesspolitics.com/wordpress/2009/08/27/journalist-bias-put-to-good-use-a-challenge-to-both-parties/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=journalist-bias-put-to-good-use-a-challenge-to-both-parties Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:23:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: YOUNGHolden29 http://mindyourowndamnbusinesspolitics.com/wordpress/2009/08/27/journalist-bias-put-to-good-use-a-challenge-to-both-parties/comment-page-1/#comment-4686 YOUNGHolden29 Mon, 24 May 2010 11:15:21 +0000 http://mindyourowndamnbusinesspolitics.com/wordpress/?p=1329#comment-4686 I had got a dream to make my own business, nevertheless I didn't earn enough amount of money to do that. Thank goodness my friend told to utilize the <a href="http://lowest-rate-loans.com" rel="nofollow">loans</a>. Thence I received the consolidation loans and realized my old dream. I had got a dream to make my own business, nevertheless I didn’t earn enough amount of money to do that. Thank goodness my friend told to utilize the loans. Thence I received the consolidation loans and realized my old dream.

]]> By: Lynn http://mindyourowndamnbusinesspolitics.com/wordpress/2009/08/27/journalist-bias-put-to-good-use-a-challenge-to-both-parties/comment-page-1/#comment-2322 Lynn Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:17:53 +0000 http://mindyourowndamnbusinesspolitics.com/wordpress/?p=1329#comment-2322 Frank: the takeaway point I got from that line of questioning is that now the Republican party is championing Medicare as it suits them in undermining public healthcare, but they were talking about letting it wither on the vine a few years back. It would be great if they were sincere in their committment, but I doubt it--just as I doubt they're interested in overseeing the health insurance industry. Frank: the takeaway point I got from that line of questioning is that now the Republican party is championing Medicare as it suits them in undermining public healthcare, but they were talking about letting it wither on the vine a few years back. It would be great if they were sincere in their committment, but I doubt it–just as I doubt they’re interested in overseeing the health insurance industry.

]]> By: Frank http://mindyourowndamnbusinesspolitics.com/wordpress/2009/08/27/journalist-bias-put-to-good-use-a-challenge-to-both-parties/comment-page-1/#comment-2320 Frank Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:25:34 +0000 http://mindyourowndamnbusinesspolitics.com/wordpress/?p=1329#comment-2320 What bothered me about the interview was the fact that the "inconsistency" that Inskeep accused Steele of was not all that strong. Inskeep's premise that to be since Steele was against some cuts to Medicare for people over 65 (A for +65), and because Medicare is government run healthcare (B), then he shouldn't be against government run healthcare for everyone (A for everyone). So if we say (A+65) should not be cut and (A +65)=(B), therefore we should implement (A for everyone)? Sorry, logic doesn't work that way. Yet, that was the point argued about for most of the interview. Steele actually put it best when he said: "Just because, you know, I want to protect something that's already in place and make it run better and run efficiently for the senior citizens that are in that system does not mean that I want to automatically support, you know, nationalizing or creating a similar system for everybody else in the country who currently isn't on Medicare. " To which Inskeep replied... "Let me ask another question..." What bothered me about the interview was the fact that the “inconsistency” that Inskeep accused Steele of was not all that strong.

Inskeep’s premise that to be since Steele was against some cuts to Medicare for people over 65 (A for +65), and because Medicare is government run healthcare (B), then he shouldn’t be against government run healthcare for everyone (A for everyone).

So if we say (A+65) should not be cut and (A +65)=(B), therefore we should implement (A for everyone)?

Sorry, logic doesn’t work that way. Yet, that was the point argued about for most of the interview.

Steele actually put it best when he said:

“Just because, you know, I want to protect something that’s already in place and make it run better and run efficiently for the senior citizens that are in that system does not mean that I want to automatically support, you know, nationalizing or creating a similar system for everybody else in the country who currently isn’t on Medicare. ”

To which Inskeep replied… “Let me ask another question…”

]]> By: Lynn http://mindyourowndamnbusinesspolitics.com/wordpress/2009/08/27/journalist-bias-put-to-good-use-a-challenge-to-both-parties/comment-page-1/#comment-2285 Lynn Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:35:53 +0000 http://mindyourowndamnbusinesspolitics.com/wordpress/?p=1329#comment-2285 I heard the interview today twice and the thing that struck me most is that apparently nuanced arguments are considered a bad thing, at least to the Republicans, but I suspect to both parties. If the press would begin to call talking heads on their sound bites and lack of nuance, we'd go a long way toward having an educated electorate. NPR does this job better than most. I heard the interview today twice and the thing that struck me most is that apparently nuanced arguments are considered a bad thing, at least to the Republicans, but I suspect to both parties. If the press would begin to call talking heads on their sound bites and lack of nuance, we’d go a long way toward having an educated electorate. NPR does this job better than most.

]]> By: Nancy Evans http://mindyourowndamnbusinesspolitics.com/wordpress/2009/08/27/journalist-bias-put-to-good-use-a-challenge-to-both-parties/comment-page-1/#comment-2284 Nancy Evans Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:46:01 +0000 http://mindyourowndamnbusinesspolitics.com/wordpress/?p=1329#comment-2284 Excellent Idea! I have been wondering whatever happened to unbiased journalism, an important concept in my junior high journalism class. But I have to admit, that bias would be useful in interviews such as these because they do help ferret out the real story. Excellent Idea! I have been wondering whatever happened to unbiased journalism, an important concept in my junior high journalism class. But I have to admit, that bias would be useful in interviews such as these because they do help ferret out the real story.

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