CNN's Lou Dobbs Calls Journalists Despicable Phonies

Journalists that won't reveal their bias are phonies. So says Lou Dobbs. More on that in a second.

Once again this weblog-- I on Media-- calls and challenges journalists to identify, disclose, declare, reveal, and publish their political biases and perspectives to their audience; to reveal conflicts of interest, in material form with a label attached to their journalism, perhaps as simple as who the journalist votes for; readers deserve nothing less.

Financial reporters already disclose conflicts of interest. It's time for political reporters to do the same. CNN's Dobbs agrees, stating: "every reporter on television, every editor, every reporter in the newspapers and magazines and on the web, there ought to be a little identification like we put on the lower third of the screen for an elected official, D or republican from Iowa or Des Moines or whatever, put that under there, we're journalist, declare yourself."

Dobbs continues "When these news organizations are doing this and trying to pretend cloaking themselves in the mantle of objectivity, you know, they're silly, (trulish), absolutely in my opinion, despicable phonies. They need to step out, they need to be objective or get their opinions out where it can be examined."

Mainstream Media Ignores Speaker Pelosi's Felonious View of Catholicism

Catholic Bishops condemn Speaker Pelosi's interpretation of the Catholic Church's view of abortion. Funny thing, despite the towering importance of the unprecedented rebuttal of liberal leader and Catholic Pelosi, Mainstream News is--well no where to be found. This is a huge story especially with a source such as Denver's archbishop right under their noses and they still choose to ignore the get. Mainstream news-- your liberal bias is showing again. Hugh Hewitt agrees, and pointed out on his radio show that apparently liberals know with certainty when global warming begins but seem stumped as to when the life of a baby begins.

Mainstream Media Choose To Ignore Attempted Censorship

B. Hussein Obama's lawyers are scurrying around trying to censor this video. Mainstream Media ignores the story.

Caution: News Media Will Alter Digital Photos

Be very hesitant to believe any digitally created or reproduced image from any news source. Case in point, see here how Iran knows how to use photoshop. In this case supposedly reliable news service Reuters admitted to using an altered digital photo. More of Reuters' disgrace here.

Biases

We all have a bias. Except for News Media, we, the rational, know this. Having a bias is normal. Having no bias is abnormal. Astonishingly, News Media CLAIMS to be UNBIASED. They are in fact, biased, but unwilling to admit it, and disclose it. To have any credibility News Media needs to place disclaimers on their product. Until News Media discloses their bias, News Media remains unaccountable, negligent, dangerous and ignorant.

Demand accountability, demand disclosure of bias.

According to Robin Hanson, associate professor of Economics at the George Mason University, a bias is a systematic tendency to produce error of judgement. An error is a gap between the truth and our estimation of it. When an incorrect bias is fostered, the results can be damaging to the society at large. Hanson suggests interesting approaches such as prediction markets to promote honesty and overcome the pernicious effects of bias.

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Only Liberals Could Be So Astoundingly Obtuse

Republicans--Drill! Drill! Drill!, Democrats--Kill! Kill! Kill!--any chance of actually increasing THE SUPPLY of oil!!!! Read about it here.

Liberals Claiming To Be Religious

"How we know with certainty that secularism is synonymous with "reason" and religion synonymous with "mere opinion" is never explained." A great quote from a cogent article exposing the utterly untenable position of liberals claiming to be non-sectarian religious. Religiosity Without ReligionBy George Neumayr Published 6/26/2008 12:08:05 AM