Fisking the Unfiskable

Fisking the Unfiskable - Last week, I got one of MoveOn.org's intermittent spams. This one concerned a dire Vast Right Wing Conspiracy to keep the organization's "winning" anti-Bush ad off the Super Bowl.

I like fisking grotesqueries of illogic as much as the next guy - but the whole notion of considering CBS to be in league with the Vast Right Wing was just. too. absurd to get my head around.

Fortunately, Mark at Classically Liberal is more on the ball:

So, clearly let's welcome CBS as a cog in the VRWC instead of a business legally lobbying for law changes which it believes will enable it to prosper better than current law. Regardless of one's views about media ownership changes (I'm generally against them myself...) claiming that CBS is some kind of Right Wing News outlet is hilarious. This is the network with Dan "transparently liberal" Rather as its nightly news anchor and executive news editor.

There are a few issues out there that left and right approach from such grossly different perspectives as to make meaningful communication impossible. The concept of media bias is one of them. I've sat, slack-jawed, reading Greens and Wellstone Democrats describe with a straight face the media's "Conservative bias". I've written it all off to "From Sacramento, Salt Lake City is East" metaphor - but is the part of the Dem mainstream represented by the likes of MoveOn that far out to the left?

Posted by Mitch at January 26, 2004 06:25 AM