Bias under a cloak of accuracy
Headline on the BBC (and a big headline on the Drudge Report): Syria ‘fires on Israel warplanes’
Headline on Al-Jazeera: Israeli jets ‘enter’ Syria airspace (Drudge has a lesser headline “Israeli planes had ‘dropped ammunition’ over desert areas of Syria…”)
Need I spell it out? The headlines are correct factually, but you get a completely different sense of the most relevant facts.
When you read a story on this page, at least you know beforehand that there’s going to be bias and a witty joke. Or a not-so-witty joke.
(As an aside: At least one of you has mentioned Liquid Egg Product is almost exclusively your source of news. After some reflection, this is more frightening than flattering, and I am hoping that declaration was hyperbole. If not, please get out more or something.)
In other news, Pavarotti dying is a big deal today.
(This post sucked, but I’ve got no time to polish it during work. Sorry.)
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hey all the news we get is dripping with opinion anyway. why not yours? at least we know where you live if you misinform us.
Comment by annie | 9 September 2007
People are going to come by and “discuss” matters if I misinform them? Uh-oh. (Makes a phone call to 1-800-BOUNCER.)
Comment by Donnie Briggs | 10 September 2007