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Re: TRUE OBJECTIVITY

Since when is it "left" or progressive to tell the truth? Can you tell me when PBS or NPR started lying like Fox and CNN. Since when is it "left" or progressive to talk about things with some context.

Your post is just more "liberal bashing" cloaked in a resentment for favoritism. What is at issue here is that we all own one public airway and they are accountable to all of us. Quite frankly, it is the truth, and if the truth is "progressive" and you don't like it, then you don't have to watch do you?

by Anonymous Citizen on Tue May 17, 2005 at 06:47:56 PM EST
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The truth is certainly what's at stake here. PBS news is the last bastion of thorough, objective, evenhanded reporting, and anyone who claims otherwise is simply saying so for an agenda that will sacrifice anything to achieve it's end. Anything!

by Alfred on Wed May 18, 2005 at 03:14:52 AM EST
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I'm continually amazed by how terms like "obviously left-leaning" get used without any explanation or substantiation in these discussions. Is it "obviously left-leaning" because it's different than the rest of the media, because it goes into more depth of context, or raises uncomfortable questions, or draws from historians, scholars and people with actual experience with the issues being discussed? Or is it just because the overall prevalent political and cultural winds are shrieking from the right, thereby making anything somewhat objective or thoughtful appear "left-leaning"?

by Ralph on Tue May 17, 2005 at 11:49:42 PM EST
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The middle ground between "left" and "right" is "truth".
"Truth" is neither "left" or "right", it is simply the truth. When "truth" is ignored for a particular "leaning", often enough, we all fall down.

by Alfred on Wed May 18, 2005 at 03:46:44 AM EST
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Hey, Andy Oetman

I respect your passion for making CPB/PBS be the best it can be. I do feel that in today's environment it seems that truth is considered a liberal value. That's too bad. It's correct to fault or marginalize any media that can't or won't speak only truth. If NPR is guilty, hang 'em high. If not, please respect the American value that we, the people, have a RIGHT TO THE TRUTH.

Perhaps we should reflect a moment on this statement:

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President."
-- President Theodore Roosevelt

by David K on Thu May 19, 2005 at 01:15:40 PM EST
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This is an example of how the "right" can not tolerate different perspectives. Anything that challenges the "right" gets labled as "wrong" or "left". Please help me understand the fear of controversy? CLEAN UP? Wipe clean? No dialogue? What is happening? Readers Digest does not have a reputation of scholarship or journalistic excellence. Those terms have been more often associated with Public Radio and Public Television. Is that what Tomlinson wants to clean up? Is he more comfortable with mediocrity and People magazine, like some of his recent employees>

by kindlingafire on Fri May 20, 2005 at 08:26:27 PM EST
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