Freaking Right Wing Media.

[Sarien]

Go cry to your english teacher. This is an internet forum lighten up!

He can't, as you've predicted his "left wing" english teacher is busy turning people into gay feminists that hate war and want to set wrongly convicted criminals free. It's a conspiracy, against brutish apes everywhere, I tell you!

[THE ENFORCER]

He can't, as you've predicted his "left wing" english teacher is busy turning people into gay feminists that hate war and want to set wrongly convicted criminals free. It's a conspiracy, against brutish apes everywhere, I tell you!

I didnt say that.

[DoTheFandango]

I didnt say that.

Also, I don't like his lack of a sense of humor or the non-existant acknowledgent of satire.

I'm just saying it is hard to find your arguements worthwhile when you type like this.

Im typing bullshit this reeally has no purpose dothefandango is stupid . Rightwaigng all the way.

[Liquid Blue]

He can't, as you've predicted his "left wing" english teacher is busy turning people into gay feminists that hate war and want to set wrongly convicted criminals free. It's a conspiracy, against brutish apes everywhere, I tell you!

lol.

[THE ENFORCER]

Also, I don't like his lack of a sense of humor or the non-existant acknowledgent.

I'm just saying it is hard to find your arguements worthwhile when you type like this.

Im typing bullshit this reeally has no purpose dothefandango is stupid . Rightwaigng all the way.

sigh.

[Jerome Scuggs]

I know this is an old topic but...

From lew rockwell (a radicalish website, leftist definitely so if anything it would be biased TOWARDS the "left") http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese69.html

Michael Moore claims that the Walt Disney Co. is blocking the distribution of his new film, "Fahrenheit 9/11," by a Disney subsidiary, Miramax.

While I'm no fan of the present-day Disney corporation, it has a right to block the distribution of any film by its own subsidiaries. Moore, a pseudo-blue-collar multimillionaire, apparently does not understand the First Amendment. Many Americans don't.

The First Amendment gives us the right to speak and to write. It does not give anyone the right to command that others listen to or publish or distribute what he or she says or writes or produces. The best way to understand the difference between a true right and a falsely claimed right is that a true right does not compel anyone else to do anything except leave us alone.

That's why it is wrong to say that people have a "right to medical care." To say this implies that someone else must be compelled to provide it. Medical care that is affordable is a desirable social goal, but it is not a right. Ditto education, housing, jobs and other economic benefits.

I have the right to write an opinion column. That right, however, does not impose an obligation on anyone to publish it or to read it. If a newspaper declines to publish my column, it is in no way abridging my First Amendment rights. Nor is it engaging in censorship (only the government can censor). It is instead exercising its right to choose what it will and won't publish at its own expense.

All true rights are essentially negative in that they prohibit others, mainly the government, from interfering in our personal lives. The right to keep and bear arms doesn't mean that we have to own guns or that anyone has to sell them to us. It simply means the government cannot prohibit us from owning a gun.

There is ? and always has been, it seems ? a lot of talk about the liberal press and, these days, right-wing radio and television. Forgotten in this discussion is the fact that a newspaper has a right to be liberal or conservative, and so do television and radio shows. As consumers, we have the right to read or not read, to listen or not listen, to watch or not watch.

Objective journalism, meaning journalism without any bias, is a myth. Journalism is a subjective business from start to finish. Editors exercise judgment as to what stories they assign. Reporters exercise judgment as to how much information they will collect and what parts they will emphasize. All of these judgments will be influenced by subjective factors.

What can be striven for is a clear separation of opinion from factual reports. On the whole, the press does a poorer job of that than it used to, but that is a technical problem within the industry and has nothing to do with rights.

A truly free society is one in which people can think, say and do what they please as long as they don't infringe on other people's rights to think, say and do what they please. No one has a right to not be offended. No one has a right to demand that others agree with him or her. No one has a right to utter defamatory falsehoods. The reason maintaining a free society is so difficult is that it butts heads with the itch many people have to control other people.

I don't care for Moore's infantile version of liberalism, so I don't read his books or watch his movies. If the Walt Disney Co. believes that distributing his film would cause any harm to its legitimate business interests, it has a perfect right to decline to distribute it. Moore, of course, can seek other distributors. In the meantime, Moore is becoming what I so despise about many professional athletes - a multimillionaire whiner.

[genocidal]

I know this is an old topic but...

From lew rockwell (a radicalish website, leftist definitely so if anything it would be biased TOWARDS the "left") http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese69.html

Yeah I agree with what this says. I have yet to see Michael Moore's new film but hopefully I will soon. Though his shit is VERY slanted, I agree with many things he asserts (at least in Bowling for Columbine) but some stuff is ridiculous. No examples at the moment but if any of you fervently disagree with me I will dig up some examples.

EDIT: An example popped into my mind: In the part where Moore is showing clips of Charleton Heston speeches instead of showing a full speech or a full clip of a speech he melds a few different speeches (made at times different up to like a year i think) together to make Heston look more like an insensitive jerk regarding the Columbine shooting. Not that I'm a Heston fan but I'm pretty sure he's not that big of an asshole.