On a summer Saturday night, with NBC continuing to run SNL re-runs, I'm catching up with a liberal media bias theme from earlier in August in the conservative online comic strip, “The Gentleman from Lickskillet,” by Allen and Tuma. Back in April they also had a week featuring the 'Mouthful' TV show with guest Howland Fonebone of 'Group Think' magazine.
The August 3-8 strips revolved around the “unbiased newsmagazine.” In one entry, an editor looking for a “wide range of opinion,” wonders whether the magazine should run “more stories on the President and his beautiful family?”or “more stories supporting the President's agenda?” or “more stories exposing the President's corrupt opponents?”
Sounds just like a staff meeting at Time or Newsweek.
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Im gonna subscribe to
August 22, 2009 - 23:04 ET by Dan The Man 2Im gonna subscribe to groupthink.
Really?
August 23, 2009 - 19:03 ET by needleIn addition to Time and Newsweek?
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That is pretty cool
August 22, 2009 - 23:04 ET by well99Funny and true at the same time.
looks like "cartoon reform"
August 23, 2009 - 14:27 ET by TruthMongerlooks like "cartoon reform" may be added to the "fairness" doctrine...?!
TM
August 23, 2009 - 17:53 ET by well99Dont give them any ideas.Shoot they want to control everything.
Oog.
August 22, 2009 - 23:41 ET by Saint ZeroI couldn't stand "Gentleman" last time it got recommended. I'll pass.
Read through the comic strips
August 23, 2009 - 04:53 ET by FeynmanFanThe best part is the quote from Matthew Holyemthow saying that "Objectivity is relative".
That reminds me of a real
August 23, 2009 - 08:40 ET by GrannyGrump42That reminds me of a real encounter I had with a congregation of Unitarians.
They'd run an ad in the paper inviting the public to hear the exciting sermon, "The challenges of speaking out in a church of diverse opinions." A little set up is necessary.
This church had just a week earlier taken out an ad supporting Roe vs. Wade -- which includes abortions through all nine months of pregnancy.
This in the wake of a scandal in New York involving Dr. Abu Hayat, a member of the supposedly cream of the crop National Abortion Federation. Hayat had injected poison into Rosa Rodriguez's uterus, intending to kill her 32-week fetus so it would rot overnight and be easier to dismember the next day. But the next day he had a hard time when he wrenched off the baby's right arm, which meant that the baby had failed to die. Figuring that despite having survived the poison, the traumatic amputation would do the baby in, Hayat sent Rosa home with strict instructions NOT to go to the hospital, and to return the next day. Well, Rosa went to the hospital and gave birth to a live maimed baby, Ana Rosa.
National Right to Life News published a picture of the tiny newborn with a bandaged shoulder where her right arm should have been attached. I made a bunch of copies and prepared to see exactly how diverse the opinion was.
The sermon was, as expected, about the challenges of deciding if they wanted to spend money on renovations for the building or on a gay rights ad, or should they make "reproductive rights" the priority this year, or should they take up "saving the earth" as a primary project? In other words, there wasn't a whole lot of real diversity of OPINION, just diversity of PRIORITIES about their lockstep opinions.
The head honcho opened the floor to discussion. I raised my hand and indicated I'd come in after seeing their ad, and wanted to measure how diverse opinion really was about something they'd taken a stand on, as a group, recently.
I was given the go-ahead, I started passing around the pictures of Ana Rosa and said, "See the cute baby? Notice that her right arm is missing? That wasn't an accident."
Hundreds of faces were turned toward me, waiting to know how the baby's arm was non-accidentally removed. "It was deliberately torn off..."
Faces showing shocked horror.
"... during a legal abortion."
As one, the faces turned away.
The head of the local Planned Parenthood stood up and started to say, "Well I'm familiar with this case, and the doctor in question..."
I interrupted. "That the doctor in question lied to his patient and told her she was only 12 weeks when he knew she was much further along is beside the point. The point is, this church took out an ad supporting Roe, which permits abortions on babies at this stage of pregnancy. This group has publicly taken a stand supporting abortion at this stage of pregnancy. I want to know how much real diversity there is about that."
The leader closed the discussion and dismissed us to the refreshment table.
An interesting story,
August 23, 2009 - 08:49 ET by QueenMumAn interesting story, Granny. I'd also be interested to know how many participants were still able to partake of the refreshments. Know what I mean? The idea that a doctor would be so callous about innocent human life would certainly ruin my appetite.
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GrannyG... Thank you for
August 23, 2009 - 14:44 ET by bigtimerGrannyG...
Thank you for your post....you don't know how much I appreciate it...along with what you did gal.
Obama's a Community Agitator, a walking, talking destroyer. ~ Rush Limbaugh
Good on you, Granny
August 23, 2009 - 19:16 ET by needleI am wondering if there is some more or less similar way of ensuring the grand philosophers at Time and Newsweek read all five of these comic strips. Not that that there is any hope for them (any more than there is for Unitarian pagans), but it would just be salutary to know that they were confronted and confounded.
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