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...Franken's Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. The cashier had not deactivated its anti-theft insert, but I couldn't help wondering if the book was screeching at being trapped in the same bag with liberal-bias critic Bernard Goldberg's best seller Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Elite. (One Franken chapter is titled "I Bitch-Slap Bernie Goldberg.") "Let me desensitize Mr. Franken for you," the guard said...
...from their freshman dean, but those warnings leave no trace on one’s transcript. They do follow first-years to the Houses, but senior tutors are not likely to dwell on them in cases that involve only underage drinking. “It doesn’t bias me in any way,” according to Adams House Senior Tutor Michael R. Rodriguez, “it’s just one more piece of information that I know about a student...
...thing is certain: if it is political, none of its employees or fans will believe that it is. I write about TV and media for a living. Few subjects, I've found, incite more reader mail than media bias. And yet--though media bias is supposedly everywhere and universally despised--no one has ever written me to complain that a network or newspaper was biased in favor of his political view. There is no subject about which people are less objective than objectivity...
...programs are openly left-or right-wing. You watch the Glass Half Full Channel, I watch the Glass Half Empty Channel and everyone's happy. But we're not Europeans: we can't simply light up a Gauloise, unfold a copy of our partisan newspaper and jadedly admit that bias is inevitable--c'est la guerre! Boy-Scoutishly, we feel this is wrong, cynical, corruptly Old World. We need a fig leaf. Our news must call itself "unfiltered" or "fair and balanced." It must flatter both our world view and our belief in our fairness...
...rational people, after all. We want reality, not bias. And is it our fault that on our favorite channel, reality happens to be biased in our favor...