Thursday, November 23, 2006
BLAME THE MEDIA; DOUBT THE PEOPLE
Adam Daifallah pre-fabricates an excuse for the Conservatives failing to achieve a majority in the Commons. The culprit: the media, of course.I'm starting to question if a majority government is even possible given the current state of the Canadian media.
Never mind that Adam only provides two links to the CBC(!) as examples.
It always struck me that anyone who blamed the media for the inability of their side, either right or left, to communicate their ideas, was seriously condescending the intelligence of the citizenry.
What makes Adam think the majority of people are incapable of judging media bias for themselves? Adam can read through the bias, what makes him think that other people can not? What makes Adam think that the majority of people are so incapable of judgment that they allow 'the media' to think for them?
Of course political media coverage is going to influence people. But the voice and judgment of the people is the ultimate determinant of our elected legislatures. To blame 'the media' for the result of elections is to call the people dupes.
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I'm totally with you, Fletch.
Fletch? I don't know where that came from...
Kelly,
You seem to be channeling my high-school experience, as I was pretty commonly referred to as 'Fletch' back in the day.
Fletch, I admire your faith in people but talk to people who are not news and politics junkies like us. They do not detect bias at all and never even think about it.
Adam,
So you would agree that you have less faith in the ability of the general public to judge and reason for themselves on political topics?
If that's the case, it would seem still that the media is not the principal problem as much as the education, ability, and participation of the citizenry.