This week on FAIR TV: Why is raising the minimum wage considered “divisive”? And a Washington Post pundit gives Obama State of the Union advice: Skip climate change and go big on the deficit. Plus a look at the way the New York Times framed police brutality in a story about Charles Dorner.
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I am to the left of the Program on most issues but their slant and bias is irritating at times.
Intelligent people are looking for objective points and not spin in either direction.
To take the 15th Feb report, they talk about how 60-70% (majority) of Americans support a higher minimum wage and thus politicians who oppose that are out of sync or line.
Well this issue has several dimensions and I for one agree that with raising living wages. But to selectively use the majority opinion on issues on Counterspin is plain irritating and disgusting.
How about the majority opinion on gay marriage or illegal immigration. The overwhelming majority of Americans oppose that. But counterspin supports those issues. I never heard them mention public opinion on those issues.
It is appalling that the media on both sides disregards objectivity as and when they like. But the hosts preen their holier than thou attitude about other media.
Disgusting.
Please haul out your statistics to back up your claim of an “overwhelming” majority opinion on gay marriage. What are we talking here–90-95% against gay marriage? I would call that overwhelming if it were accurate.
Also, as far as I can tell very few people are in favor of “illegal immigration” as you suggest, but many people support reforming the current immigration system and providing some sort of path to citizenship for the undocumented. Not the same thing.
I detest the notion that this post might be taken by some to mean that I disagree with Leftist positions, but I, too, feel that something must be said about the recent tone set in recent pieces by FAIR.
I do not deny that I have largely agreed with FAIR’s conclusions in the various posts I have made in response to these biased stories. The truth though is that I am also becoming frustrated with what appears to be a rather clear agenda.
FAIR does its readers and viewers the greatest service when it remains neutral on issues and focuses on errors in reporting, whether those errors in facticity, commission, or omission. I will continue to enjoy the Leftist tyrades where they are accurate, but like others here I think I too will choose to point out when FAIR is missing opportunities to critique the press regardless of the agenda of the critiqued.