tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786818.post116757270357679955..comments2024-03-18T17:08:18.111-05:00Comments on Fatale Abstraction: phlegmfatalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08636803080525003892noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786818.post-1167684162825097472007-01-01T14:42:00.000-06:002007-01-01T14:42:00.000-06:00GAAAH!! No way !! NO Way!! NO WAY!!! STOP TORT...GAAAH!! No way !! NO Way!! NO WAY!!! STOP TORTURING ME!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786818.post-1167650370061532882007-01-01T05:19:00.000-06:002007-01-01T05:19:00.000-06:00I stopped watching the news years ago. I didn't e...I stopped watching the news years ago. I didn't even know that Angelina Jolie was Jon Voight's daughter...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786818.post-1167612232737838462006-12-31T18:43:00.000-06:002006-12-31T18:43:00.000-06:00I'm one of those lucky government/contractor type ...I'm one of those lucky government/contractor type folks that gets 1/2/07 off for the Ford funeral.<BR/><BR/>I'm not sure if I'll watch it on TV and give a running audioblog commentary on it or not.<BR/><BR/>I'll keep ya posted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786818.post-1167600124110874122006-12-31T15:22:00.000-06:002006-12-31T15:22:00.000-06:00In retrospect, I don't know which is more depressi...In retrospect, I don't know which is more depressing... watching the news or sitting through another friggin' Cowboy game watching them play grabbass rather than football. Sheesh.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786818.post-1167599731940969902006-12-31T15:15:00.000-06:002006-12-31T15:15:00.000-06:00Technically, it's called "Selective Perception". P...Technically, it's called "Selective Perception". People naturally filter out information that doesn't reinforce their preconceived ideas of things, rejecting conflicting information as wrong or biased, taking in info that reinforces their beliefs as truth. Natural human thing. Things you agree with seem obviously true. It's a lot harder to accept that you may be wrong. Helps a lot if time has passed and the issues are less emotional. <BR/><BR/>For example, many of the closet leftie media types, people who used to work for Democratic politicians as aids (too many to mention) who've been talking so respectfully in the last few days about how Fords pardon of Nixon was a good thing for the nation, back in the day, wanted to impeach him for it, saying it was a payoff to Nixon for putting Ford in office. I was in junior high and high school at the time and remember it well.<BR/><BR/>Thing is, ideally, the media is SUPPOSED to show us "just the facts", and then let us sort them out, but you can't help but allow your perceptions of things to be influenced one way or the other. Again, natural human thing. How many ideal situations exist anyway. So the MSM has always been biased. NPR is as liberal is it comes, and Fox and most talk radio are conservative, and the bloggosphere splits things down the middle. As long as you know what yer listening to, you can be an intelligent consumer of the news and not let people feed you allot of crap as "objective truth".<BR/><BR/>Anyway, that's what I teach people in my government class.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786818.post-1167587085054350982006-12-31T11:44:00.000-06:002006-12-31T11:44:00.000-06:00Fine rant there, Phlegmmy.For all the resources th...Fine rant there, Phlegmmy.<BR/><BR/>For all the resources the news services have available to them, some of them do seem to have disturbingly short memories, as you say, focussing primarily on the most recent occurances, rather than looking at the whole picture. Perhaps they think that is all people care about.Barbara Bruederlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14476249934930666695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786818.post-1167578397442085372006-12-31T09:19:00.000-06:002006-12-31T09:19:00.000-06:00I'm with you phlegmy. I don't watch a lot of news ...I'm with you phlegmy. I don't watch a lot of news anymore. I do watch local stuff hoping to see a non-fatal car chase or some other entertaining event but I haven't watched network news in years. Maybe, if they offered news with no comments other than this happened here at this time, I would watch. I'm a big boy. I can make up my mind about the probable impact of an event on my life. I don't need an op-ed pretending to be a news article to tell me. The problem with folks detecting bias in the media is that no one sees bias when the article or programming agrees with their point of view. Only when it disagrees. That's why it's so funny to see the KosKids and their kin on DU, MyDD, Huffington Post, etc go off the rails when there is even the slightest hint in the old media that a Republican may have done something right.Just Another Old Geezerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12176390946557907045noreply@blogger.com