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- From: libwca@emory.edu (Bill Anderson)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
- Subject: Re: Have some respect
- Message-ID: <1431@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 17:18:00 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.150225.29558@uts.cc.wayne.edu>
- Organization: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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- tom@uts.cc.wayne.edu (Thomas Richard Stevenson) writes:
- : odekirk@math.utah.edu (Elizabeth Odekirk) writes:
- :
- :
- : >v115r4q5@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Perry M Jowsey) posts
- :
- : >> Did
- : >>anyone watch the debate and actually believe that Al Gore won? Be real!
- :
- : >After the debate, NPR had the results from several groups who referee
- : >college debates. They all gave Al Gore more points than Dan Quayle.
- : >Gore was clear and precise and got the facts across without resorting to
- : >name-calling and finger-wagging. While being the loudest and most
- : >snide may make you the winner in an argument on the playground, it
- : >does not win you a debate.
- :
- : NPR is a liberal news show. It would not be at all difficult for them to
- : find liberal college debate referees that would side with a liberal
- : viewpoint. I am not suggesting that V.P. Dan Quayle won. What I am suggesting
- : is that who a person feels the winner is is largely based on which viewpoint
- : the person is coming from. Liberals will agree with what Gov. Al Gore said,
- : while conservatives will agree with what V.P. Dan Quayle said. After all, who
- : won is only an opinion, and thus can be different for each person.
- :
- : >Elizabeth
-
-
- Ewww! It's that evil NPR conspiracy! Actually, whether one thinks
- NPR is a "liberal" news show also seems to depend on whether one is
- a liberal or a conservative- in other words, on who's ox is being
- gored (no pun). I remember a study done several years ago- I don't
- remember the source or the details, sorry- which suggested that
- NPR, along with several TV news shows, tended to rely pretty
- heavily on Government sources (read: Republicans and other
- establishment figures) to fill their talking head quota; doesn't
- exactly fit the stereotype of the "liberal media", out to undermine
- our beloved president. Media bias certainly exists, but it's a
- much more complicated and ambivalent phenomenon that the Rush
- Limbaughs of the world would have us believe.
- And, just for the record, what is Al Gore governor of? His church
- board?
- Bill
-