Americans, Politics and Media

[bertusgeert 1]

Having been here for 5 years to watch the political mayem Americans refer to call "democracy", I don't understand why they love their media so much.

With everyone out there piping their opinion, you know they are most likely wrong or biased. WHy not take a look at the damn facts for yourself and decide for yourself. I don't have time to sit in front of the telly and be told what to think by some political argument.

I read: news.bbc.co.uk, WSJ, and The Economist - plenty enough to tell me the facts and let me decide for myself.

I don't have time for American TV/Media BS. A bunch of crap if you ask me. Annoys the shit out of me.

I also watch the occasional political documentary, but always take it with several grains of salt, no matter what.

i'm done...please explain now...

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[Andrewwhyte 1]

Yah because the Economist doesn't have a bias. Ya right.

[bertusgeert 1]

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Yah because the Economist doesn't have a bias. Ya right.

agreed- it does to some extent. Open the first two pages and it will brief on the facts - read the articles and filter through the bias - although it is solid arguments based on solid facts, not useless rhetoric by some TV personality millionaire.

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[wmw999 2,560]

Of course it has a bias. Everything does. However, consider that there are probably Americans (and others) who think that bias is liberal.

Wendy W.

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[TheAnvil 0]

I think The Economist is a wonderful magazine. The majority of the American news is written at the level of the average imbecile. The Economist is a bit biased, but much less so than any American news source - that includes Fox News. WSJ is my favorite paper.

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[wmw999 2,560]

I agree. It frustrates me, though, because I never make it all the way through before I get the next week's.

Wendy W.

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[SpeedRacer 1]

I've only read the Economist a few times, so I don't know, but:

In what way would you (anyone can answer) say the Economist is biased?

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[wmw999 2,560]

I'd have to say it is a business-oriented magazine, so it has a business bias. Which makes it a little more of what a lot of Americans would call conservative in looking at social-engineering issues (welfare etc), liberal in what Americans would call lifestyle issues (whether you're gay doesn't really matter if you're a kickass CEO).

But the language is good, and you read substative information about countries that normally only appear in American papers with the words "famine" "flood" "earthquake" or "riots" in them

Wendy W.

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[AdD 1]

As someone who has studied economics quite a bit, I can tell you it is biased in the direction of... economics! Basically economics is used to engineer society in various ways which normally favor the people controlling the money. So, in the terminology of this forum, it would be slanted to the right. However, since most here people define the left as Liberal, there may not actually be a useful distinction between left and right since Liberals are by definition proponents of working within the economic system in various ways. Typically the 'lefty' is an interventionalist Liberal. To watch tv these days, you wouldn't know there was any opposition to the neo-conservatives beyond this constrained right-left spectrum of debate. The main problem with media in America is that the realm of acceptable debate is so tiny that no matter who wins, the dominant interests are still satisfied. The idea that the Republican and Democratic parties are separate entities is laughable.

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[bertusgeert 1]

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The idea that the Republican and Democratic parties are separate entities is laughable.

Agreed. Pretty agrivating. Screw the guy in the bowtie and all his opponents as well. Care about something that matters please.

Now, Colbert - that's a different story. Better than the Economist and the WSJ combined! Just quit reading, and it will all be sorted out. Books are for dummies.

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