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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (12780)	10/6/2006 10:24:35 AM
From: Geoff Altman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

There is a word for people that go through life without really questioning what the biased media is feeding them, sheeple. That's a good one Peter, I might have to use that.....

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (12780)	10/8/2006 2:59:23 AM
From: RMF	Respond to of 71588

Peter, let's start with your last point first. YOU say that the "main stream media" is biased. Isn't Rush Limbaugh part of the "main stream media"? Isn't Hannity? Isn't Drudge? Doesn't Limbaugh have MORE listeners than any of the Network News programs have viewers? Are you saying the New York Times is MORE biased than Limbaugh, or Hannity, or Drudge? FOX News has MORE viewers than CNN...so isn't FOX News more "main stream media" than CNN???? HOW do you DEFINE "main stream media"???

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (12780)	10/10/2006 12:09:18 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 71588

What I am saying is that the New York times is equally as biased as Rush Limbaugh. Both rely on the biases of one person, it is just that the NYTime requires a huge staff to make Salzberg's bias spring forth. The difference is that Rush makes fun of the fact that he is a partisan, while Pinch and his minions pretend to be serious news people. Do you wonder why the Times has been steadily losing readers? Other papers have done better jobs of retaining readership while they have been sinking. siliconinvestor.com "So the definition of wrong in your mind is does the media promote them or demagogue them? Talk about abdicating all moral authority to the least qualified." Exactly. In the formerly mainstream media you have to conform to specific idealogical profiles to be allowed in. Rush beat the pinheads by growing the market while they are playing sucker bets to hold on to the few readers that remain. You hit the nail on the head. The formerly mainstream media has less than zero moral authority.