Archive: May 14, 2005

Saturday, May 14, 2005

1. Peter C. Glover: BBC Insider Explodes Myth of Unbiased BBC. I dunno who holds that the BBC is unbiased, but in any case, people are calling Robin Aitken Britain's Bernie Goldberg.

   One thing I have learned as a conservative journalist: liberals are almost always blind to their innate liberalism. They will long assert their ability to be unbiased and even-handed. Their work says something different, however.
   
   Liberals always perceive themsleves as "mainstream" even though their views can be proven to be left of the views of the population (ie. 54% of the British population and over 70% of the US population want the death penalty reinstated. You will be hard-pressed to find a single broadcast and print journalist that will agree).
   
   Conservatives easily admit to holding conservative views or a conservative or Christian worldview. Liberals and lefties squirm and struggle to admit to having anything other than "mainstream', "centreground" views on just about anything - desperate to avoid the tag 'liberal' under any circumstances.

   Via Lorie. Speaking of bias, I listened to NPR today for a few minutes. Man that's whack.

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2. Dracula Blogged. Brilliant. Via Ryan. I just wish they had the author of each post set as the author of the diary entry.

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3. The Mystery of the Insurgency - New York Times:

   "Instead of saying, 'What's the logic here, we don't see it,' you could speculate, there is no logic here," said Anthony James Joes, a professor of political science at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia and the author of several books on the history of guerrilla warfare. The attacks now look like "wanton violence," he continued. "And there's a name for these guys: Losers."

   Steven Metz, of the Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, said the insurgency could still be sorting itself out. Yet, he said, "It really is significant that even two years in there hasn't been anything like any kind of political ideology or political spokesman or political wing emerging. It really is a nihilistic insurgency."

   Update: Power Line has extended commentary.

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