One difficult thing about dealing with the whole media bias issue is the problem of where you draw the center line.
I completely agree and if you were to, further, argue that the left-right distinction hurts more than it helps, I would also agree. It's just that so much of our political language is contaminated with the distinction, I find it hard to change to something else. It does, also, catch something, however little.
As for the center line moving depending on context and issue, again I could not agree more. Several posters have noted that the US left would be center in European countries, etc.
However, I'm sort of wimpishly struggling against the conflation that folk on the right push, which is that everything to their left is where, traditionally, the left is. Simply arguing with that notion. For one, I consider the notion that the NYTimes is left wing to be ironically hilarious, even painfully hilarious, given the Times campaigns against serious left wing issues.
But then I don't take all this stuff too seriously. Well, that's not true. I get ticked off when the right calls anyone to its immediate left unpatriotic. Too much McCarthyism in that. Needs to be addressed everytime it pops its ugly head. |
