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To: Suma who wrote (12461)	2/17/2006 12:25:48 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541370

I wish someone would define the biases that one states are to the left or right as you just did by naming publications and then labeling them... I don't think it can be done quite as definitionally as you think. It takes a lot of reading and observing and noting of nuances and taking in the totality of the view point which is presented over a significant period of time. And the longer one does it, the more likely that the observation will be accurate depending, of course, on the ability of the observer.

To: Suma who wrote (12461)	2/17/2006 12:48:38 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 541370

For example I count on responsible journalism from PBS and NPR... and do not see how they are in your category. He leaves out a third of the story to slant the story from what he wants to put out there for the listeners to believe. Suma, I think there are a couple of different threads running through this. One of them is poor quality journalism and the other is POV. I think that PBS and NPR are journalistically responsible, too, Limbaugh, "not so much." But I think that NPR has a lefty POV just as Limbaugh has a righty POV. You can be responsible and still have a POV that comes through via your framing. It's just like the way you and I saw the Cheney story as, in part, an animal welfare story when others didn't. It's because we have an animal welfare mindset so we notice the animal welfare element and we frame the story that way, at least in part. It may seem like NPR doesn't have a POV because their demeanor is classier and they are more fastidious about journalistic standards. That conflates journalistic responsibility and POV and confuses the categorization.