On 24 Sep 2005 19:20:33 -0700, "itsjoannotjoann"
> wrote:

>
>Bob Terwilliger wrote:
>> Ward wrote:
>>
>> >>Things I have learned from watching the news on TV during the last
>> >>eight days:
>> >>
>> >>The hurricane only hit black families' property.
>> >
>> > my goodness...you are the MOST misinformed person on this planet.
>> >
>> > where have you been sleeping...since consciousness has not been your
>> > forte...
>>
>>
>> Joan's point was clearly that the media coverage was biased. I'm pretty sure
>> she doesn't believe any of the points she posted.
>>
>> NOW do you understand? Or is cognition not your forte?
>>
>> Bob
>
>
>It certainly is nice to see that SOME of you can read this post for
>what it is. The biased reporting of our fine, wonderful, and most of
>all truthful news networks. As far they were concerned Mississippi and
>Alabama are somewhere around North Dakota and not very news worthy.
>But some of you gave the always familiar kneejerk. To those, I say
>thanks, I knew I could depend on you to come in with your well thought
>out comments about me being a ****ing asshole, sputtering and screaming
>the whole time about how dare I post this. You got your news from the
>same networks we all did but you couldn't see how slanted it was.
>

I neither sputtered nor screamed.

However, you've got yourself a heck of an epistemological problem
here. Asserting that news coverage is biased presumes you have a more
objective understanding than the news sources you pretend to critique.
You assume you have knowledge beyond what is reported in asserting
there is bias. What is the source of this knowledge? It can be had
either first hand or via reporting. If the reporting is wrong, then
where does your information come from? Do voices tell you the news?

A smug declaration that your ethnicity and your point of view is more
normal or objective than that which you find irritating is hardly a
media critique. And the presumption that so many Black faces in the
coverage of this disaster constitutes bias is itself racist. The only
apparent bias here is yours.


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