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Alright, no complaints here. What's preventing you from making your media-watchdog-watchdog? Aside from the dubious valprop, I guess.

by klyrs 3y ago

hagbard_c 3y ago
Not being American, having far too much to do already, only being one person without a large enough network of like-minded relatively unbiased people who are willing to commit significant time to a project like this. Something like this should be picked up by a university as a research project but current academia being what it is this is not possible in the USA because it will be impossible to abide by the 'unbiased' criterium. It might be possible for e.g. a Swedish, Dutch or German university to do this [1] but even if they did the results would be written off due to 'foreign actors' 'meddling' in 'American affairs'. [1] not that academia in Europe is free from the type of 'hyper-progressive' bias seen in the USA, far from it. The rot has not sunk as deep here, that's all.
- klyrs 3y ago
  Sounds like you've got a bone to pick with progressivism, you're biased too. Great start.
  - hagbard_c 3y ago
    Of course I am biased, and so are you and probably everyone else on this site. It is one of the reasons why I do not consider myself to be the person to run something like 'Media Matters' and why I think it would be best for something like a university (in the old sense of the term, a temple of learning and inquiry, not in the new sense of one of indoctrination and inquisition) to keep a watch on things like 'Media Matters' in the hope that they´d be able to balance the biases so they can function like a 'neutral' arbiter. Also, yes, I have a whole skeleton to pick with the current incarnation of 'progressivism', in large part because in the countries I've lived in that is what's left of most of the institutions once 'progressives' had their way with them. Many scattered bones make for rich pickings.

Alright, no complaints here. What's preventing you from making your media-watchdog-watchdog? Aside from the dubious valprop, I guess.

by klyrs 3y ago

Alright, no complaints here. What's preventing you from making your media-watchdog-watchdog? Aside from the dubious valprop, I guess.

hagbard_c 3y ago

Not being American, having far too much to do already, only being one person without a large enough network of like-minded relatively unbiased people who are willing to commit significant time to a project like this. Something like this should be picked up by a university as a research project but current academia being what it is this is not possible in the USA because it will be impossible to abide by the 'unbiased' criterium. It might be possible for e.g. a Swedish, Dutch or German university to do this [1] but even if they did the results would be written off due to 'foreign actors' 'meddling' in 'American affairs'. [1] not that academia in Europe is free from the type of 'hyper-progressive' bias seen in the USA, far from it. The rot has not sunk as deep here, that's all.

klyrs 3y ago
Sounds like you've got a bone to pick with progressivism, you're biased too. Great start.
- hagbard_c 3y ago
  Of course I am biased, and so are you and probably everyone else on this site. It is one of the reasons why I do not consider myself to be the person to run something like 'Media Matters' and why I think it would be best for something like a university (in the old sense of the term, a temple of learning and inquiry, not in the new sense of one of indoctrination and inquisition) to keep a watch on things like 'Media Matters' in the hope that they´d be able to balance the biases so they can function like a 'neutral' arbiter. Also, yes, I have a whole skeleton to pick with the current incarnation of 'progressivism', in large part because in the countries I've lived in that is what's left of most of the institutions once 'progressives' had their way with them. Many scattered bones make for rich pickings.