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Topic: Sloppy Journalism or Unabashed Bias?  (Read 1032 times)
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« on: March 25, 2006, 02:56:28 PM »
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I've said it before...if you get your news from the NYT you are intellectually vacuous.  My standard line is: if it comes from the NYT, assume it is a lie until verified otherwise.

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ON MARCH 8 the New York Times ran a lengthy profile of Donna Fenton. The story described how much difficulty she and other victims of Hurricane Katrina were having in getting assistance from government agencies.

On Thursday the Times issued this embarrassing correction after Ms. Fenton was arrested for grand larceny and welfare fraud:

"Prosecutors say she was not a Katrina victim, never lived in Biloxi, and had improperly received thousands of dollars in government aid.

"For its profile, the Times did not conduct adequate interviews or public record checks to verify Ms. Fenton's account … Such questions would have uncovered a fraud conviction and raised serious questions about the truthfulness of her account."


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« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2006, 08:50:27 PM »
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With The NYT it is not a question of "either"  "or". Its both. Society has been experiencing a general decline in the work ethic.You don't find large numbers of dedicated workers anymore.The Reporting business has gotten soft and lazy.Much easier to gloam onto a "wire" story as opposed to doin a little gum-shoein...a little original investigation.Then compound an ideological driven agenda...and voila....crappy journalism as practiced by NYT and many others.

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« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2006, 09:28:24 AM »
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That was part of dinner discussion last night along w/the residency rule for political candidates that reporters ignore till one of their pet liberal officeholders appear to be on their way out.
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I don't need John Kerry or big brother to wipe my ass, don't need Ted Kennedy to spill my glass, Al Not So Sharpton is a racist lying horses ass, Redistribution is a fkn laugh, the whole damn world can kiss my a**.

I don't need nobody to hold my hand, don't need nobody, I can stand. Make it on my own in a Rock-n-Roll band, kiss my ass cuz I'm a American.

Ya say you're friends with Michael Moore. Then you are friends with pimps & whores, The 2nd Amendment aint about no sport, no ri
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2006, 09:28:49 AM »
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Another fine example of BIASED Journalism in todays DISPATCH...front page above the fold:FIGHTING TO LIVE THE AMERICAN DREAM on the ILLEGAL Immigrants Rally Sunday. Type of "piece" that soccer moms in Arlington will love....Oh those poor hispanics just want to have the American Dream.....I'll bet 500 million Chineese and 200-300 Indians(subcontinent) would like to illegally move in too.

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"Just because YOU do not take an interest in politics......doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in YOU" - PERICLES ( 430 B.C.)

"No man's LIFE,LIBERTY,or PROPERTY is safe while the legislature is in session" - Mark Twain (1866)

"I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky.....and...
I know I'd be a poorer man if I never saw an eagle fly" -
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits"
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« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2006, 09:38:01 AM »
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Did you read George Will's article on Sunday???
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I don't need John Kerry or big brother to wipe my ass, don't need Ted Kennedy to spill my glass, Al Not So Sharpton is a racist lying horses ass, Redistribution is a fkn laugh, the whole damn world can kiss my a**.

I don't need nobody to hold my hand, don't need nobody, I can stand. Make it on my own in a Rock-n-Roll band, kiss my ass cuz I'm a American.

Ya say you're friends with Michael Moore. Then you are friends with pimps & whores, The 2nd Amendment aint about no sport, no ri
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Columbus Dispatch Poll in Sunday's paper 3-26-06

    That Great polling operation known as The Columbus Dispatch was at it again.It would be nice if the Dispatch published the actual questionaire for us enquiring minds to evaluate and state clearly if the polling pool was with "likely" voters or with "registered" voters.(This was a little fuzzy in their explanation on how the poll was conducted) At any rate,the Dispatch's last pre-election poll was a COLLOSSAL  MISS the MARK and courtesy of BizzyBlog.com we have these details:

   
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OK, maybe the Blissful Bunch is a bunch of partisan hacks comfortably secure in a university setting. But what explains The Columbus Dispatch’s poll of Oct. 24 through Nov. 3? It seems in reasonable order: 1,872 registered voters (note: NOT likely voters) and a 2.5% margin of error (again from Swing State; percentages sometimes don’t add up to 100% because of rounding):

Issue 2–Yes: 59%; No: 33%; Undecided: 9%
Issue 3–Yes: 61%; No: 25%; Undecided: 14%
Issue 4–Yes: 31%; No: 45%; Undecided: 25%
Issue 5–Yes: 41%; No: 43%; Undecided: 16%

The self-named “Central Ohio’s Premier Information Source” is eating crow by the kilo today. Even if you treat all Undecideds as “Nos,” the final “Yes” tallies were lower than the poll’s results wrong by 23, 28, 1 and 11 points, respectively.

   
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In 30 years of following election results, I don’t think I have ever seen poll vs. actual differences like this. I’m not even sure I’ve ever seen differences of more than 10 points, let alone 28. They’re supposed to be getting better at this, not going into the toilet. I could have thrown darts and come closer than Bliss and the Dispatch did.

So it’s safe to say that until we see proof otherwise, polls taken in Ohio are worse than worthless, and in fact can be assumed to be at least 10 points off, if not more, in a Democrat and/or liberal direction.

   BizzyBlog....WELL SAID and WELL ADVISED

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"Just because YOU do not take an interest in politics......doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in YOU" - PERICLES ( 430 B.C.)

"No man's LIFE,LIBERTY,or PROPERTY is safe while the legislature is in session" - Mark Twain (1866)

"I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky.....and...
I know I'd be a poorer man if I never saw an eagle fly" -
     John Denver (1972)

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits"
    Albert Einstein

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