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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (24973)	7/27/2006 2:14:53 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542511

Being biased is being dishonest. Being dishonest is being stupid. I can't really agree with either of those statements. Certainly biased people can be dishonest, and dishonest people or statements can be stupid, but there is no inherent connection. Biased people can be totally honest. They don't have to lie about what they see to be biased, they just have to see things through a lens that distorts reality in a relatively consistent direction. Being dishonest is often stupid, but sometimes it winds up benefiting the dishonest person. As for Fox News and the NY Times, both of them might refrain from "giving you the score", if by that you mean not reporting on a particular subject which some people might find significant but which they don't, or which doesn't fit in with their ideology. I guess the NYT reports more stories (Fox News spends a lot of its time with debate/opinion shows, and the news programs repeat themselves a lot), so it might "report more scores", but that has more to do with its format than bias or lack thereof. Tim