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> Oh look a Reason article where "government is bad." What a shock. Let’s leave ad-hominem attacks on the publication out of this, shall we? I think we need mo
by systemvoltage 4y ago
> Oh look a Reason article where "government is bad." What a shock.
Let’s leave ad-hominem attacks on the publication out of this, shall we? I think we need more journalism that questions government and its efficiency. Not less.
It’s doing rather a disservice to excellent points you’ve brought up.
- badlogic 4y agoPointing out media bias is just as important as pointing out inefficiencies in government.
- systemvoltage 4y agoMeta: We never like to point out media bias of NYT, but have a bias for pointing out how biased anyone else is. NYT gets a free pass. Can you imagine a comment that starts with something like this: “Oh look a NYT article where government is good." What a shock. —- But I digress. I agree, we should point out bias, but shouldn’t reduce the entire article to “What a shock”. Otherwise, we’d throw away every newspaper since they’re all biased. Right?
- diordiderot 4y agoBut NYT reports on how gov is bad sometimes
- puffoflogic 4y agoThere are plenty of comments like that but dang does a good job of making sure they never violently assault your eyeballs.
- avgcorrection 4y agoIt’s only an ad hominem if Reason is ashamed of being libertarian. Which they probably are not. It’s rather a wider point: this is where this publication is coming from. It’s part of their overall mission. Sure. Only making this point can get tiresome. You just end up with a bunch of meta comments. But the GP also pointed out why this thing needs to be regulated. As in GP actually tried to counter their arguments. GP is staying on topic.