Sunday night I participated in a conversation with Wildside Clyde, PO Taxpayer, and Tony Jones on the subject of bias in the media. Not just the question of less than objective reportage, but the question of extreme perspectives, and opinions pre-loaded with the venom of a dozen cobras. Bias, in other words, not to further a particular argument, but to incite hatred in the cause of attracting a few more eyes and ears to programming that, in a nation given to rational discourse, would quickly be identified as the ravings of sociopathic maniacs. Unfortunately, the United States is no longer a country interested in rational discourse- at least in the realm of mass media. Inside the Bob Studios: Professor David ClydeTerror has struck the Boston Marathon, and pure EVIL has emerged. I was going about my Monnday, when I received a a call: ”You’re not going to believe it?" I replied with that empty feeling in the bottom of my gut: “what?" The caller said: “explosions are going off at the Boston Marathon.” My Reply: “What the hell’s going on?" |
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