That reminds me of when I was doing mainframe assembler training (10 weeks) at British Airways. After a couple of weeks we got to the point of assembling our code and testing on the test system. One morning the mainframe test system (for all of BA) went down 3 times in succession, until one of the chaps said "hey look at this, every time I run my code, the test system crashes."
I think that you make a very good point. The media is only Socially liberal, Economically conservative. But you could also say that about most of the Democratic party.
But NONE OF US ARE UNBIASED (incl you and me). Whether you are left wing or right wing to me depends on where I'm standing.
That's why I take a look at the arab news web sites every now and then. They are of course "shockingly" biased from our point of view, but at least you get a glimpse of what other people are thinking.
I would argue that the main problem is that THE MEDIA AND most of THE VIEWERS/READERSHIP do not RECOGNIZE their bias.
This leads to a VERY NARROW PERSPECTIVE on the world.
At least in the U.K. I could read The Guardian and The Times to get a slightly different perspective. - I live in Dallas and there is only one paper, and the National and international coverage in the paper are EXTREMELY LIMITED.
If the general public were more interested, surely someone would provide an alternative? - The only national paper I am aware of is USA today.
Good points. This site might serve some purpose if it only solicited reports of illegal behaviour (bringing in guns, selling drugs etc). However any such site would still be open to abuse by those wishing to enter false accusations.
This is a similar issue to mandatory drug testing in schools - due to the high probability of false positives showing up. In each case, without responsible behaviour by schools and parents, innocent kids may get in a lot of trouble.
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That reminds me of when I was doing mainframe assembler training (10 weeks) at British Airways. After a couple of weeks we got to the point of assembling our code and testing on the test system.
One morning the mainframe test system (for all of BA) went down 3 times in succession, until one of the chaps said "hey look at this, every time I run my code, the test system crashes."
And he still programs computers for a living.
I think that you make a very good point. The media is only Socially liberal, Economically conservative. But you could also say that about most of the Democratic party.
But NONE OF US ARE UNBIASED (incl you and me).
Whether you are left wing or right wing to me depends on where I'm standing.
That's why I take a look at the arab news web sites every now and then. They are of course "shockingly" biased from our point of view, but at least you get a glimpse of what other people are thinking.
I would argue that the main problem is that THE MEDIA AND most of THE VIEWERS/READERSHIP do not RECOGNIZE their bias.
This leads to a VERY NARROW PERSPECTIVE on the world.
At least in the U.K. I could read The Guardian and The Times to get a slightly different perspective. - I live in Dallas and there is only one paper, and the National and international coverage in the paper are EXTREMELY LIMITED.
If the general public were more interested, surely someone would provide an alternative? - The only national paper I am aware of is USA today.
Good points. This site might serve some purpose if it only solicited reports of illegal behaviour
(bringing in guns, selling drugs etc). However any such site would still be open to abuse
by those wishing to enter false accusations.
This is a similar issue to mandatory drug testing in schools - due to the high probability of false positives showing up.
In each case, without responsible behaviour by schools and parents, innocent kids may get in a lot of trouble.