For success . . . know the enemy!

Being a liberal is a mental illness.

Move along, not much to see here.

The Tim Horton's regulars in Woodstock, Ontario sense a definite Liberal bias eminating from CTV's Tom Clark on his "PowerPlay."

Makes one wonder why, eh?

You know SDA has gotten results when Parliament drafts up a Blog Bill to quench our free speech on the Internet.

I listen to The House on Sat. mornings on CBC Radio. When they ask tough questions they actually go after an answer until you feel the squirm. They do this for all parties although the government looks good or bad more often for the simple reason they do things. It is the only political show I indulge in.

Everyone has a political bias. Any one show is going to have a multiplicity of biases ranging from that of the wealthiest advertisers to that of coffee delivery person who manages to catch someone's ear for a minute. Learn how to sort it out and you'll be okay.

Kate, as a conservative mouth piece who general favors other conservative mouth pieces (Beck, Coulter) I'm surprised you have such a problem with bias.

I stopped watching Question Period after Duffy left.....I was shouting at the TV....not good for the dogs y'know.

Well,after reading a piece in the Torstar bird-cage liner this am,about the "Guergis dynasty"..that included the info, 'during a raid on the family home..which included investigators rifling thru a box of Helena's sanitary napkins' I've really reached projectile vomiting level. Classy and informative indeed!

Duffy and Martin were good in that they have such a wealth of historical knowledge it was hard to slip one past them. Tom Kennedy is a lefty lightweight, Fife is moronic, Taber a babbler. Don't need it. Don't watch it.

Watch CTV Newsnet occasionally and some of the comments and questions by the weather girl turned news reader are just freaking loony. A real WTF moment. Thank God we gave the internet!!

Diagnosing the problem -- i.e., identifying a media outlet's particular political/editorial biases -- is one thing.

The typical political blogger's response, on the other hand -- i.e., indulging in opinion and content that are, if anything, even more intensely biased, only in the direction that one prefers -- not only fails to address the problem, but also reveals her/his true, self-serving motives.

What was once a legitimate issue ("The media only presents one side of a story") thus deterioriates in the hands of most bloggers and his/her fans into a sophomoric celebration of willful ignorance ("I only read/watch/listen to ideas and opinions that I already agree with").

I am approaching the sixth month anniversary of not watching Tom Clark's Power Play and almost a year of not watching the Liberal Sunday show Question Period. CBC has been off the list for about 20 years now.

Davenport, bloggers do not claim to unbiased as do the so-called journalists on CBC and CTV. Global is not even worth mentioning.

I do not think people would be gravitating toward blogs as much as they do if there was a television news service that made an honest effort to be non-partisan. If anything CBC and CTV have become more biased over the last few years.

"I do not think people would be gravitating toward blogs as much as they do if there was a television news service that made an honest effort to be non-partisan."

Yet how many gravitate to a wide diversity of blogs across the political spectrum in order to gain that balanced picture of world events that they profess to desire, and how many gravitate only to blogs that reside within a narrow band of the political spectrum and whose views they know will resonate with their own?

"how many gravitate to a wide diversity of blogs across the political spectrum in order to gain that balanced picture of world events that they profess to desire"

Probably one or two.

I read a variety of sources, and still watch Fareed Zacharia GPS, even though he's a shill for the Obama administration. He gets high ranking and interesting guests. Period. For that reason and the fact that Zacharia exposes a certain type of mindset, his own, it's worth watching. Afterwards, I watch The McLaughlin Group, one of my favourite snappy political programs. CTV's Powerplay with Tom Clark I often watch until the political or media hacks come on; then I switch channels. I already know what Ralph Goodale or John McCallum are going to say. BORING. Some of the press corp are insightful and straightforward, but they're exceptions.

The blog owners tend to do more investigative research than the regular media writers do, although one of my favourite bloggers is also an established journalist, published in various papers.

I read The Georgia Straight, which is certainly not a conservative paper. No editors take a scythe to its comments sections, UNLIKE the Globe and Mail.

"how many gravitate to a wide diversity of blogs across the political spectrum in order to gain that balanced picture of world events that they profess to desire"

Probably one or two.

Posted by: batman at April 12, 2010 3:20 PM

I only avoid liberal blogs because liberal blogs are generally:

1. Spewing something they heard from the MSM verbatim.

2. Expressing moral outrage about something they read about the conservative party from the MSM.

3. Wondering why we don't get taxed more to support some wonderful cause they, personally are interested in. (They read about a shortage of funding for it in the MSM.)

All I have to do to keep up with what's on the liberal blogs is keep up with what's in the MSM. Conservative blogs, on the other hand, tend report on completely different stories.

I enjoy Hunter's blog. If you played some role in inducing her to blog, then thank you Kate.

I only avoid liberal blogs because liberal blogs are generally:
(good points here 1-2-3)
K Stricker

4. Censorious of any facts or opinions that don't mesh with their group-think world view and are unable to deal with the consequences of the reality they are promoting.

Personally my life is too busy to absorb the viewpoint of Leftist bloggers who get their talking points from the Legacy Media and it's hothouse celebrities who are too stupid to realize that the Communist Elites that are using them want to kill them as much as everybody else who isn't part of the Elite group.

If I want to know they're going to parrot I'll just go to CNN or MSNBC and get it from the horse's mouth.
(or whatever part of the horse it originates from)
JMO

Thanks for the link Kate! I was just checking my blog for hits today and it said 2000+, and I'm thinking something is wrong, then I find out you linked to my post, and that solved the mystery.

The power of a blog like SDA's has to scare the MSM political writers into hysterics. Keep doing what you are doing Kate, they are running around like chickens with their heads cut off, and that is not a pretty sight.

I will from time to time watch or read the Lib/Sep/NDP alliance agents and whores in the Canadian MSM, but one can only take so much. For anyone who isn't a Trudeauvian cultist, socialist, marxist, communist, or fascist bum licker, watching, or reading the Canadian MSM can do serious damage to you're health,and over exposure can play havoc with one's sanity, eg. screaming at the T.V. Thank God for the internet and sites like SDA. There is no balance in the Canadian MSM, and in my life time there never has been, just a pack of Lib/Sep/NDPer bullshit, complete with feigned outrage over "Pooping Puffins" and what Harper did with that wafer, etc. etc. etc.

Only Fox News for me, no Canadian MSM....