[nfb-talk] Alright, from another passionate liberal.RE: nfb-talk Digest, Vol 55, Issue 62

[Todor Fassl]

Well, you can label CBS and the New York Times as propoganda outlets but 
that would be incorrect.  Just saying something doesn't make it true. 
Again, Fox News is openly trying to persuade it's viewers to vote 
conservative. That's why it's a propoganda outlet.  It's not my opinion that 
Fox News is trying to persuade people to vote conservative, they say so 
themselves all the time.

Is CBS and the New York Times openly trying to persuade people to vote 
liberal? Well, not openly. At worst, you can claim that they are doing so as 
the result of the human weakness of letting their biases influence which 
facts they consider relevant. But they are not deliberately trying to 
persuade people to vote for liberals.

Of course, the NYT probably endorsed Barack Obama for President. But, at 
least theoretically, that isn't supposed to influence their reporting. You 
can argue that as a practical matter it does. But that would be debatable. 
It is not debatable that Fox News is trying to persuade people to vote for 
conservatives and is, therefore, a propoganda outlet. That's just a fact.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Alright,from another passionate liberal.RE: nfb-talk 
Digest, Vol 55,Issue 62


> You're not getting it: there are those who consider CBS News and the NY 
> Times as propaganda organs also and all the more shameful for not 
> admitting it. Since we discuss our common connection, blindness, here and 
> are loath to pay for a debating society here, especially when such debates 
> do little more than generate controversy and division, it's better to keep 
> to blindness.
>
> Mike Freeman
> sent from my iPhone
>
> On Dec 27, 2012, at 9:41, "Todor Fassl" <fassl.tod at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, I mainly just want to nake the distinction between Fox News and 
>> other news sources clear.  It's up to the reader to decide the 
>> significance. It's not a matter of opinion that Fox News is trying to 
>> persuade people to vote conservative. They say so themselves practically 
>> every day. By definition, that makes them a propoganda outlet, not a news 
>> source.
>>
>> There may be value in reading "The Daily Worker" from the Communist 
>> Party. You may learn things you wouldn't have learned otherwise. Never 
>> the less, it's propoganda. So is Fox News.
>>
>> You may learn something from listening to Fox News. And I can't tell 
>> people not to listen to them. That's really none of my business.  But the 
>> fact is that Fox News is absolutely, positively, definately not the 
>> conservative equivalent of CNN or NPR or CBS or the New York Times.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Jacobson" 
>> <steve.jacobson at visi.com>
>> To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 11:18 AM
>> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Alright,from another passionate liberal.RE: 
>> nfb-talk Digest, Vol 55,Issue 62
>>
>>
>>> This is exactly why we have to be careful what we discuss here.  Your 
>>> comments here are not going to be seen as fact by everyone, and 
>>> inevitably
>>> someone is going to challenge them and sooner or later things get 
>>> heated. That's not how it should be, but it is how it is on lists.  It 
>>> is as firm a rule as the
>>> law of gravity.  .  While I don't trust any news source that feels they 
>>> have to tell me that they are fair and balanced, I think that one has to 
>>> realize that there
>>> are cases when any news source is not going to be objective.  I could 
>>> say more about Fox and MSNBC, but it won't help us address the issues 
>>> that face
>>> us as blind people.  Each of us has to make decisions about what we 
>>> support in general, but it is important that we can learn here how 
>>> various options
>>> affect us as blind people so we can act accordingly, and that means we 
>>> have to get along well enough to be able to share information.
>>>
>
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