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Fox News Doesn’t Know Where Egypt Is
2011-02-06, 2:38 PM #41
I also take their opinions and the opinions of others into account in this manner. When all sorts of radical leftists champion a specific news source as the best the conclusion is clear.
"I would rather claim to be an uneducated man than be mal-educated and claim to be otherwise." - Wookie 03:16

2011-02-06, 2:45 PM #42
Originally posted by Wookie06:
I also take their opinions and the opinions of others into account in this manner. When all sorts of radical leftists champion a specific news source as the best the conclusion is clear.


Be careful who you are calling leftist.
2011-02-06, 2:59 PM #43
Why? Besides, I didn't say that only leftists champion them. There are, of course, "moderates" and "independents" that do the same.
"I would rather claim to be an uneducated man than be mal-educated and claim to be otherwise." - Wookie 03:16

2011-02-06, 3:09 PM #44
Originally posted by Wookie06:
I also take their opinions and the opinions of others into account in this manner. When all sorts of radical leftists champion a specific news source as the best the conclusion is clear.


wookie makes a good point.
2011-02-06, 3:54 PM #45
Originally posted by Wookie06:
I also take their opinions and the opinions of others into account in this manner.


Why then did you mock Tibby for doing such a thing?
You can't judge a book by it's file size
2011-02-06, 4:13 PM #46
I'm surprised, given the sub-topic of "Americans are bad at geographical knowledge," that no-one's trotted out this xkcd yet: http://xkcd.com/850/
2011-02-06, 6:47 PM #47
Originally posted by Wookie06:
I also take their opinions and the opinions of others into account in this manner. When all sorts of radical leftists champion a specific news source as the best the conclusion is clear.


As far as I know, the CSM is considered a good news source.

I'm not sure if that makes me a radical leftist, though.
2011-02-06, 7:16 PM #48
Originally posted by Wookie06:
Why? Besides, I didn't say that only leftists champion them. There are, of course, "moderates" and "independents" that do the same.
It's a highly-awarded news organization praised by people from all countries and all parts of the political spectrum for due diligence, lack of sensationalism and their strong and continued efforts to avoid bias.

Fox News is a widely-condemned, questioned and deliberately flawed news source favored only by the members of a new American neo-fascist movement. If it is your opinion that anybody who is not a member of this movement is a 'leftist' - a disgusting title, by the way, but I suppose ethnic slurs are too outdated for the modern fascist - it is a personal problem, and you should not confuse it with reality.
2011-02-06, 7:33 PM #49
What Fox viewers learned from O'Reilly's interview of Obama: "Stubborn leftist pig is a traitor to America! I lurve 'merica, that's why I gotta kill the president, destroy the government!"

What everyone else learned from it: "Wow, O'Reilly's really unprofessional."
2011-02-06, 7:45 PM #50
I like how wookiee bookmarked the CSM thread where I got told in order to bring it up in the future.
He must love me.
2011-02-06, 9:28 PM #51
Originally posted by Jon`C:
What Fox viewers learned from O'Reilly's interview of Obama: "Stubborn leftist pig is a traitor to America! I lurve 'merica, that's why I gotta kill the president, destroy the government!"

What everyone else learned from it: "Wow, O'Reilly's really unprofessional."


It really was awful. I don't watch O'Reilly pretty much ever but does he always talk over the answers his interview subjects give him?
"Honey, you got real ugly."
2011-02-06, 9:36 PM #52
Originally posted by Jon`C:
It's a highly-awarded news organization praised by people from all countries and all parts of the political spectrum for due diligence, lack of sensationalism and their strong and continued efforts to avoid bias.


Hiding bias is not the same as avoiding bias. Also, awards are mostly irrelevant. For example, Michael Moore has won an award for Best Documentary and Obama, Gore, and Arafat all have Nobel Peace Prizes.
"I would rather claim to be an uneducated man than be mal-educated and claim to be otherwise." - Wookie 03:16

2011-02-06, 9:51 PM #53
Originally posted by llibja:
It really was awful. I don't watch O'Reilly pretty much ever but does he always talk over the answers his interview subjects give him?


no, he normally yells

o.0
2011-02-06, 11:53 PM #54
Originally posted by Wookie06:
Also, awards are mostly irrelevant. For example, Michael Moore has won an award for Best Documentary and Obama, Gore, and Arafat all have Nobel Peace Prizes.

The fact that other people have won other awards that may not be relevant does not discount awards the CSM may have won. I would bet all that I own that you have no idea what these awards are, who issues them, what criteria they are issued on, etc. You are just spouting bull**** so that you don't have to make any kind of solid refutation. You don't even know if he's talking about actual "awards" as items or just the connotation indicating praise.
Bassoon, n. A brazen instrument into which a fool blows out his brains.
2011-02-07, 12:03 AM #55
Originally posted by Wookie06:
Hiding bias is not the same as avoiding bias.

Please give an example of bias in worldnews articles of CSM. Cite other sources showing said bias.
Bassoon, n. A brazen instrument into which a fool blows out his brains.
2011-02-07, 5:28 AM #56
Originally posted by Wookie06:
Hiding bias is not the same as avoiding bias.


Yes, that's why Jon`C said "avoiding" and not "hiding."
If you think the waiters are rude, you should see the manager.
2011-02-07, 7:54 AM #57
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2011-02-07, 8:33 AM #58
I could be wrong but I think wookie may have been referring to media matters.? CSM is usually the first place I will look for a news story at. If I'm fortunate enough to find it there then I don't have to wade through the dribble from other media outlets.

It's pretty funny my dad has a publication from the CSM available at his church and no one there realizes that it's not "Christian" they just see Christian and think 'oh it must be good' and then see science and think 'oh it must be factual as we'll'
Welcome to the douchebag club. We'd give you some cookies, but some douche ate all of them. -Rob
2011-02-07, 11:29 AM #59
That sounds like a pretty progressive church. If someone from the church that I grew up in saw "Christian" & "science" in the same sentence their head would explode. True story.
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2011-02-07, 11:46 AM #60
Originally posted by Tibby:
I like how wookiee bookmarked the CSM thread where I got told in order to bring it up in the future.
He must love me.


Actually, it's called "memory" and "search function".
"I would rather claim to be an uneducated man than be mal-educated and claim to be otherwise." - Wookie 03:16

2011-02-07, 12:19 PM #61
Originally posted by Mentat:
That sounds like a pretty progressive church. If someone from the church that I grew up in saw "Christian" & "science" in the same sentence their head would explode. True story.


im sure theres some that would cry heresy if it was just the "science monitor" but since it has christian i guess they find it acceptable.
Welcome to the douchebag club. We'd give you some cookies, but some douche ate all of them. -Rob
2011-02-07, 2:39 PM #62
Originally posted by Mentat:
That sounds like a pretty progressive church. If someone from the church that I grew up in saw "Christian" & "science" in the same sentence their head would explode. True story.


It's not always considered to actually be Christian by other churches-as far as I know, their beliefs differ significantly from traditional Protestantism, Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. I've always heard that the paper itself was a good source of news, though.

Out of curiosity, what church/denomination did you grow up in?
2011-02-07, 3:22 PM #63
Originally posted by Anakin9012:
It's not always considered to actually be Christian by other churches-as far as I know, their beliefs differ significantly from traditional Protestantism, Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. I've always heard that the paper itself was a good source of news, though.


They're about as Christian as evangelicals or any other church that emphasizes healing through prayer and a cult of personality.

Which is to say not at all, depending on your standards about such things.

Praise Jeezus.
2011-02-07, 3:39 PM #64
Originally posted by Jon`C:
They're about as Christian as evangelicals or any other church that emphasizes healing through prayer and a cult of personality.

Which is to say not at all, depending on your standards about such things.

Praise Jeezus.


You are so hard to read.

Does that much sarcasm burn when it comes out?
Epstein didn't kill himself.
2011-02-07, 5:53 PM #65
Ha ha, look at that, they got a map wrong. That's pretty funny, and I look forward to future examples of media outlets getting things amusingly wrong.

-You people, on the other hand, need to just get this sexual tension out of your system and **** each other in the bathroom, holy ****. Do you realize you're arguing about pointless **** on a forum devoted to a 13 year old star wars game? Look around you! Stop being STUPID.
2011-02-07, 6:04 PM #66
The forum USED to be devoted to a star wars game, it's been a long time since then.
So I suggest you SHUT THE HELL UP and TAKE OFF YOUR DAMN CLOTHES
*zip!*
You can't judge a book by it's file size
2011-02-07, 7:57 PM #67
Originally posted by Mentat:
That sounds like a pretty progressive church. If someone from the church that I grew up in saw "Christian" & "science" in the same sentence their head would explode. True story.

The Christian Scientists are those crazy people whose kids keep dying of treatable diseases because they don't believe in medicine.

Somehow they managed to found a good newspaper. It's largely independent at this point.
2011-02-07, 9:04 PM #68
Originally posted by Deadman:
The forum USED to be devoted to a star wars game, it's been a long time since then.
So I suggest you SHUT THE HELL UP and TAKE OFF YOUR DAMN CLOTHES
*zip!*


That was pretty funny.
"I would rather claim to be an uneducated man than be mal-educated and claim to be otherwise." - Wookie 03:16

2011-02-08, 3:24 AM #69
Originally posted by Anakin9012:
Out of curiosity, what church/denomination did you grow up in?

Pentecostal. The particular sect that I belonged to as a child has progressed quite a bit since then (e.g: you can now watch television). My grandmother was finally able to receive the preacher's permission to go bowling in her 60's (you have to ask the preacher for permission to do just about anything). I hear the elders left in charge while the others are away at fellowship meetings aren't even allowed to **** all of their wives while they're gone anymore.
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