"On every controversial issue of the day, the mainstream media weighs in with advocacy in the guise of information, creating a demonstrably misinformed electorate.
For example, many people live in a carefully cultivated fear of the radiation from nuclear power plants, unaware that the coal-fired plants that are often built in their place emit far more radiation due to the uranium contained in coal. The Iraq War is declared an unsustainable and pointless loss of life that must be ended immediately by ignominious retreat, yet Salmonella kills more Americans every year. And Lord only knows how many Americans are killed by illegal aliens every year, because the media simply isn't going to keep track. Clearly, not all loss of life is equal when a debate is raging."
Media bias - what's that? :-)
"there's a more insidious bias that I've been thinking about increasingly: the media's love of freaks. When a man in Uzbekistan is found to have eaten his cousins, or some guy in Seattle wants to marry a goat, this is now international 'news.' But what is the relevance? What decision does this help you make? Suppose your precious 'right to know' went unfilled in regard to the goat groom, how are you intellectually impoverished exactly?"
AMEN!
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