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To: tejek who wrote (191521)	6/23/2004 7:02:01 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574326

I wasn't blowing him off. I was responding to his point about nameless web sites. You've linked to them here. I posted stating among other things that they where no reliable or unbiased. You had a problem with that idea but apparently had no problem with ignoring anything in Fox news, even if it is from a major wire service or other source that you normally would consider unbiased. Personally I normally don't care much about the source of an argument. An argument stands or falls on its own merits. The source of specific factual information might be more important, but if you are going to try to exclude every source that you see as conservatively biased and the conservatives return the favor for sites they see as biased to the liberal side, then there won't be too many sources left. I think if you want to challenge specific facts you should at least directly state that you think the claimed fact is incorrect. Ideally it should be refuted by other factual information and logical argument. Just saying that "well that's on FOX" and implying that it can therefore be ignored doesn't make much sense. Even if Fox was as biased as liberals frequently claim it is, its specific factual claims would be correct most of the time. The presentation of the facts might be spun in a certain way, or only the facts that support a certain POV would be reported but most of the time the facts would be correct. Tim