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 Jun 10 2004, 11:55 AM
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 Dark Lord of McCandless  Group: Member Posts: 2,226 Joined: May 2004 Member No: 16,761  |
I hereby present three media sources:
Pravda (Truth) The Onion Fox News Which one is MOST reliable and why? I vote for Pravda, cause they are Russian. Besides, their newspaper is named Truth, that's for a reason you know!! 
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| *Kathleen* |
Jun 10 2004, 07:59 PM
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Pft...I think they're all pretty Bias...The Onion? Pft. Yeah, truth..."Ronald Regan's Evil Empire".
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Jun 10 2004, 08:00 PM
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Dark Lord of McCandless Group: Member Posts: 2,226 Joined: May 2004 Member No: 16,761 |
Ronald Reagan gave a speech where he called the Soviet Union, "the Evil Empire"... Ronald Reagan's Evil Empire refers probably to the speech.
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| *Kathleen* |
Jun 10 2004, 08:03 PM
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Well, either way, I don't trust Russians.
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Jun 10 2004, 08:03 PM
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Dark Lord of McCandless Group: Member Posts: 2,226 Joined: May 2004 Member No: 16,761 |
What if Boris and Dmitri were to sit you down for a little chat?? Hmm??
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Jun 10 2004, 09:36 PM
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 Quand j'étais jeune... Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 6,826 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 1,272 |
QUOTE(ComradeRed @ Jun 10 2004, 8:03 PM) What if Boris and Dmitri were to sit you down for a little chat?? Hmm?? Iono about you, Kathleen, but that sounds like a threat  *run*And I must agree with Kathleen, the media (in general) is biased in someway. |
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| *kryogenix* |
Jun 11 2004, 04:10 PM
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QUOTE(Kathleen @ Jun 10 2004, 8:03 PM) Well, either way, I don't trust Russians. Oh come on, don't be prejudiced. TV and Movies are liberally biased. Most talk radio is conservative (as far as I know). |
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| *Kathleen* |
Jun 11 2004, 05:34 PM
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QUOTE Oh come on, don't be prejudiced  Haha. I once had a Russian dwarf hamster. It bit me.  QUOTE What if Boris and Dmitri were to sit you down for a little chat?? Hmm??  *Follows Fae*Hmm...I know quite a few radio shows that are liberal. |
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Jun 11 2004, 06:10 PM
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 We are the cure. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 4,936 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 1,456 |
The Onion is a newspaper parody, so I wouldn't consider it a reliable media source.
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Jun 11 2004, 06:16 PM
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Dark Lord of McCandless Group: Member Posts: 2,226 Joined: May 2004 Member No: 16,761 |
No it's America's Finest News Source. It says so on the cover.
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| *Kathleen* |
Jun 11 2004, 08:21 PM
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Haha oh so we believe everything we read now?
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Jun 11 2004, 08:36 PM
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Dark Lord of McCandless Group: Member Posts: 2,226 Joined: May 2004 Member No: 16,761 |
Of course. Comrade Stalin wants you to join the Red Army.
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Jun 11 2004, 08:44 PM
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 pixel hybrid Group: Member Posts: 6,410 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 1,081 |
QUOTE(Kathleen @ Jun 10 2004, 8:59 PM) Pft...I think they're all pretty Bias...The Onion? Pft. Yeah, truth..."Ronald Regan's Evil Empire". Pssh. The Onion. Totally. Haha, I thought this said Media Bras!
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Jun 25 2005, 01:47 AM
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 dripping destruction Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,282 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 21,929 |
the onion is the most unbiased news source there.
they are consistantly wrong about everything, therefore, not biased. |
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| *mipadi* |
Jun 25 2005, 09:56 AM
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QUOTE(sadolakced acid @ Jun 25 2005, 2:47 AM) the onion is the most unbiased news source there. they are consistantly wrong about everything, therefore, not biased.  Except when they reported on the building of Ronald Reagan's pyramid. I'm pretty sure that was factual information. |
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Jun 25 2005, 06:40 PM
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dripping destruction Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,282 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 21,929 |
QUOTE(mipadi @ Jun 25 2005, 9:56 AM) Except when they reported on the building of Ronald Reagan's pyramid. I'm pretty sure that was factual information. hmm regan is a republican they're biased also... ehh. |
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Jun 26 2005, 06:27 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 58 Joined: May 2005 Member No: 139,806 |
None are unbiased, all of them have a bias and most Americans are too ignorant or lazy to investigate into the nature of the bias of their favorite news source. Here's a novel idea, instead of reading what *excerpt* of whatever speech from Condi, or Bush or Warren Beatty or Schwarzenegger or whoever said in (insert favorite news source here), why don't you go to the source itself? IE, read the speech transcript and not what the summary or commentary said.
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