Comments on: Chomsky on keeping the sheep in line http://www.lurid.org/2007/09/24/chomsky-on-keeping-the-sheep-in-line/ lurid (adj.) -- causing shock or horror; marked by sensationalism Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:13:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Anonymous http://www.lurid.org/2007/09/24/chomsky-on-keeping-the-sheep-in-line/#comment-26733 Anonymous Thu, 22 May 2008 19:53:33 +0000 http://www.lurid.org/2007/09/24/chomsky-on-keeping-the-sheep-in-line/#comment-26733 People in this country don't want to see the truth. That's why it is so easy to mislead them. People in this country don’t want to see the truth. That’s why it is so easy to mislead them.

]]> By: Heidi http://www.lurid.org/2007/09/24/chomsky-on-keeping-the-sheep-in-line/#comment-16874 Heidi Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:09:54 +0000 http://www.lurid.org/2007/09/24/chomsky-on-keeping-the-sheep-in-line/#comment-16874 People are sheep. Chomsky is correct. People are sheep. Chomsky is correct.

]]> By: Jordan http://www.lurid.org/2007/09/24/chomsky-on-keeping-the-sheep-in-line/#comment-14460 Jordan Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:20:52 +0000 http://www.lurid.org/2007/09/24/chomsky-on-keeping-the-sheep-in-line/#comment-14460 "Granted, it is from the Bush administration’s right-wing propaganda machine Fox News, so take it with a grain of salt." Just because something is "right" of "left" doesn't make it "right-wing". So much of our media is slanted to the left, it's easy to consider something "not left" to be "right-wing". It's relative thinking. Saying that Fox News is "right-wing" because it tends to lean more "right" than most other media sources doesn't mean it's "right-wing". It simply means it's not as "left-wing" as the others. I won't argue Fox News is 100% balanced as they claim, but I'll debate all day long that it's not "right-wing" or "left-wing". “Granted, it is from the Bush administration’s right-wing propaganda machine Fox News, so take it with a grain of salt.”

Just because something is “right” of “left” doesn’t make it “right-wing”. So much of our media is slanted to the left, it’s easy to consider something “not left” to be “right-wing”. It’s relative thinking. Saying that Fox News is “right-wing” because it tends to lean more “right” than most other media sources doesn’t mean it’s “right-wing”. It simply means it’s not as “left-wing” as the others.

I won’t argue Fox News is 100% balanced as they claim, but I’ll debate all day long that it’s not “right-wing” or “left-wing”.

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