Comments on: In Search of Solid, Right-leaning News Sources

By: CarlM

CarlM — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:36:00 +0000

Yep. Good choice. A true conservative intellectual (before being an intellectual was somehow a bad thing in the eyes of some).

By: simonsarris

simonsarris — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:13:33 +0000

Sounds like you'd want to watch William Frank Buckley Jr.'s show.

Unfortunately, he dead and his show hasn't run since 1999.

He's also not really what you'd call "modern" right-leaning politics in the US.

By: cooperati

cooperati — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:15:40 +0000

"...while one might make the argument that the truth leans left, and that’s why NPR does, I don’t think I agree with that."

Neither would I.

At present, I don't think there is a station that leaning right as slgithly as NPR does. Then again, it's an arbitrary thing, conditional on one's own idea of what the "center" is.

Like the best argument against the Fairness Doctrine, the center is inexact until the government decides what it's going to be.

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By: cooperati

cooperati — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:10:50 +0000

"...little evidence has ever been presented for a left bias at NPR ..."

Carl Kasell admitted to it in a pledge drive several years ago. And it wasn't a "driveway moment."

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By: CarlM

CarlM — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:52:20 +0000

While we're at it:

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2534

By: CarlM

CarlM — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:39:22 +0000

Accepted by whom?

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1180

"Despite the commonness of such claims, little evidence has ever been presented for a left bias at NPR , and FAIR’s latest study gives it no support. Looking at partisan sources—including government officials, party officials, campaign workers and consultants—Republicans outnumbered Democrats by more than 3 to 2 (61 percent to 38 percent). A majority of Republican sources when the GOP controls the White House and Congress may not be surprising, but Republicans held a similar though slightly smaller edge (57 percent to 42 percent) in 1993, when Clinton was president and Democrats controlled both houses of Congress."

By the way, I think it's hard to beat either NPR or BBC (I would give a nod the the BBC for world reporting).