Thread: This is Lame! More Neutering of the American Male!

Originally Posted by paco664

difficult to say to be quite honest.... i do not watch television at all *(other than when i am at work and am forced to due to being in a room with coworkers... we watch a lot of food network and occasionally CNN until i get sick of it and make them change the channel or turn off the tv..)

i get my news from the internet... some through blogs... some through msn/yahoo/google/etc.... i am a voracious reader......

I'm just looking for any news source, not specifically TV. Only news I watch on TV is the Today Show, mostly as background noise while I'm getting ready and I pay attention when our little local news bit comes on. Otherwise I read aggregator websites and the BBC.

If it's done by humans, there will be bias of some sort. My point is that America doesn't just have LOUD NOISES! news shows. I go to NPR's site and I see things happening in the world with articles being the focus. Usually got to click through a bit to get to the tabloid parts, and they don't cater to advertisers or ratings.

Ok, so we get the baseball players to stop using dipped or chewed tobacco, does this mean they will have to stop spitting too? I think I lost my big chance at the big show when I couldn't muster up that really husky hawk and spit on command, oh, and I just swalloed the juice from my Copenhagen. I could hit a ball 600 feet, but no spit, no big show. Darn.

Originally Posted by commiecat

I'm just looking for any news source, not specifically TV. Only news I watch on TV is the Today Show, mostly as background noise while I'm getting ready and I pay attention when our little local news bit comes on. Otherwise I read aggregator websites and the BBC.

If it's done by humans, there will be bias of some sort. My point is that America doesn't just have LOUD NOISES! news shows. I go to NPR's site and I see things happening in the world with articles being the focus. Usually got to click through a bit to get to the tabloid parts, and they don't cater to advertisers or ratings.

Yeah, NPR really is one of the few real sources of NEWS left in the country. It was about the only place that I've read and heard in depth reporting on the causes of the finical crisis that we're in now. The rest are either a bunch of distracting fluff or very annoying people trying to force their opinions very loudly down your throat. Such horrible, vapid opinions, too.

This brings to mind something fairly recent. Elliot Spritzer had that new shows on around 7 for a while, and it was about the best news interview show that I'd seen. Spritzer may like his hookers, but he also liked pinning mealy mouthed politicians to the wall when they tried their typical BSing around the issues. It was truly a thing of beauty. He was smarter than 90% of them and have a full grasp of the issues at hand. Compared to the typical cable news anchor questions such as "Really? why do you think that?" and "Can you tell us more?" it was really refreshing. Of course the show was canceled pretty quickly. I guess it wasn't exciting enough for CNN... not enough dead children being exploited...

Originally Posted by Pete_S

Yeah, NPR really is one of the few real sources of NEWS left in the country. [snip].

just goes to prove the point............. one mans turd is another mans babe ruth bar.........

Originally Posted by paco664

just goes to prove the point............. one mans turd is another mans babe ruth bar.........

Frankly I'm at a loss as to why NPR has the reputation as a liberal medial outlet. I'm wondering if you could point out a particular story that they've run which would illustrate their left-wing slant.

Here's an interesting article about a study to determine what the bias of various news outlets. It was done back in 2005, and I have some doubts as to it's accuracy, but it seems the most unbiased (ha!) study that I could find (after an exhaustive 2 minute search on the Google).

Originally Posted by joesixpack

Frankly I'm at a loss as to why NPR has the reputation as a liberal medial outlet. I'm wondering if you could point out a particular story that they've run which would illustrate their left-wing slant.

frankly i am at a loss as to how you can think otherwise.... find me an instance where the took a conservative outlook to anything.... when they have called for less government spending... less social programs...

you cannot find these things... they fellate the POTUS and his socialistic programs of "let the government take care of you.. because you cannot take care of yourself" with reckless abandon.....

its a wonder they don't need neck braces...

I think you're confused as to what a news organization is supposed to do. They are there only to present facts, not to take sides in the debate. I don't think they cut Obama any more slack than they did Bush, Clinton, or any of the other presidents that they've covered.

Furthermore, they have never, to my knowledge, expressed ANY support for "socialistic programs", and I've been listening to NPR for well over two decades. Again, I think this speaks to what your expectation of a news organization should do. You seem to think that they should take sides in the debate, and because they don't take your side they must be liberal jack-asses.

I prefer my news source to present facts, all the facts and keep their opinion to the editorials.

OK this might seem simplistic, but how about if you make laws that ban the sale of any tobacco products to minors ????? You would think that would solve the problem wouldn't you?????

I mean what difference would it make if adults (the ball players in this case) do bad things if minors can't buy them right???


there problem solved

Originally Posted by gssixgun

... there problem solved

The wisdom of Solomon!