I sometimes write an opinion to The Daily Bulldog, and most often the responses are vitriolic. I find the content of these responses are usually paraphrased directly from Fox and Friends, Hannity and Judge Jeanine.
If your only news comes from the Fox News Network and you believe that what you hear on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSMBC, PBS, BBC – and what you read in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, the Dallas Morning News, Houston Chronicle and Boston Globe is fake news…
Then you and I can’t possibly have a discussion.
I look forward to well thought out replies even if they don’t agree with my opinion; but attacking the writer is a poorly though out conclusion.
William Gilliland
Farmington, Maine
So where do you get the news from
I second Duane’s question.
Along with, I find most of your opinions very redundant and nauseating, yet it gives ( at least me ) an insight to some of the local mindsets.
Obviously your letters are just opinions and not factual news, correct? So then why can not the responses be opinions also?
I think it was ” Samo ” who commented earlier somewhere on the BD today and summed this topic up rather succinctly.
There are quite a few commenters that I would enjoy sitting down and having a conversation with, you are not one.
But I am sure the feeling is equal for many about me.
Try PBS and NPR for what many believe is “balanced” journalism. Also check across many sources, some of them on-line.
Fox and Friends- supports the right. ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSMBC, PBS, BBC, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, the Dallas Morning News, Houston Chronicle and Boston Globe- supports the left, these news outlets are a joke. NBC, MSNBC owned by Comcast, Comcast’s CEO is a democrat. CEO of PBS(WETA) democrat, WSJ, democrat, NYT, democrat, Houston Chron. democrat, Boston Globe, liberal, even though the owner is Republican, CNN, democrat, and the President and CEO of AT&T (CNN’s Parent) destroyed the Boy Scouts. So speaking for this Conservative, and only this one, you’ll have to forgive me if I think the aforementioned networks minus FOX is incredibly biased against all things conservative. The WAPO even went so far as to run a front page headline touting Hillary’s presidential win. So yeah, Fake News.
William and Marie E… do you like Rev. Al Sharpton and Rachel Maddow?
Mr. Gilliland,
If you believe that nothing you say or have said about Republicans can possibly be vitriolic, then you have a valid point. Otherwise you ought to avoid “vitriolic.”
You might acknowledge that, leaving aside the WSJ editorial page, your list of news sources are a little deceptive. A single left-lurching inclination applies to all of them. It does not follow that they are all useless, just that their pretense of ideological neutrality is bogus. Does not follow that all they say is false or that their attacks on the Trump Tower Gargoyle are all bogus.
I do not propose that Fox News is always fair and balanced or that conservatives and Republicans should listen only to its broadcasts. I don’t recommend resorting to that old “the truth is in the middle” wheeze. Better to listen for contradictory positions and look for inconsistencies and points of agreements.
BTW #1 Simran Jeet Singh, a Post-Doctoral Fellow at NYU’s Center for Religion and Media has exposed civility as a strategy to protect white supremacy. So you better be careful.
BTW #2 Ad hominem attacks are logical fallacies but not necessarily false statements. They have their uses.
No such thing as journalism anymore. Balanced is all one side or the other. Filters and patience is a must to navigate. Opinions are like……everyone has one.
This is a chart that shows balance. A lot of outlets people on the right call “leftist” are actually neutral. People on the left consider those same sources to be “establishment/right wing.” Neutrality is not appreciated by either side, which thinks skepticism of their view means it’s the “other side.” I tend to get my news from the sources here listed as neutral, or international sources: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-biased-is-your-news-source-you-probably-wont-agree-with-this-chart-2018-02-28?mod=mw_share_facebook
Duane, William obviously watches Fox and Friends, Hannity and Judge Jeanine, every day. How else could he possible compare what they dispense to what comes out of all thos other outlets. Of course, there’s always hearsay, which tells you all you need to know about his opinions and discussions.
Marie, NPR and PBS are very well balanced. The left side of the scale is down as far as it can get.
I will continue to be honest and unbiased.
I think this writer is full of stinky stuff.
If you don’t like my opinion,,stop spreading your stinky manure.
Or not,,,I don’t really care.
I believe the Wall Street Journal is owned by Rupert Murdock’s News Corp. Mr. Murdock is not know for his left wing ideology but maybe I missed something..
Hrtrlss:
Until 2016, The Dallas Morning News had backed every Republican presidential candidate since 1940. I guess that now makes them Marxists or something. I guess if it’s not selling the cult of Trump like Fox it’s fake news.
Ed, In the old days, the WSJ was on par with the NYT.
I think Mr. Gilliland has had his feelings hurt
If you think National Propaganda Radio and Propaganda Broacasting Service are somehow “neutral”…you probably also think no bias existed in the FBI in 2016.
It’s amazing the lengths that people will go to in order to deceive themselves simply because something supports their ’cause’ (for the 4 minutes it takes to be shown fake, as generally happens with Lefty media). They don’t even look back at how their ‘source’ was so wrong time after time after time after time….
Pub…. I guess if it’s selling the hate of President Trump, like CNN, it the real thing…
“We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” — Benjamin Franklin.
If knowledge is power….Is our knowledge of ‘truth or of ‘falsehood ?
“Small minds talk about ‘people….Mediocre Minds talk about ‘things…
and ‘Great Minds’ talk about ‘ideas.
Follow the Newscast that explore ‘Ideas…and therein find partial truth…add
‘Common Sense and you might come close to solving problems.
Scott, thank you for the link to chart. As I expected, PBS is right on center. The news hour at 7PM is an excellent source, and example of their lack of bias. Commentators and interviews from “both sides” and thoughtful insight instead of fanning the flames in any direction.
Another pretentious, snarky, half witted post on Daily TrollDog. Yawn. If you have not figured out that this guy and others in here are paid trolls than you play right into the agenda. Any of those “news” outlets are bought and paid for. Don’t give into the false “Left vs. Right” debate and realize that we all are under a two party tyranny. I turned off my TV a long time ago and get real news from citizen journalists. This guy gets paid for every letter you post about him. Stop feeding the trolls and they will eventually go back under the bridge. The plan is to use corporate hoar media outlets to keep us fighting amongst ourselves while they implement agenda 21. We fight about right vs. left, gay vs. strait, black vs. white, police vs. civilian, rich vs. poor, fox vs. nbc, north vs. south, and it goes on and on. You don’t see that just about every comment this troll makes is to create division? I understand I’m feeding it right now but just to warn other less informed people. I will be very surprised to see my comment posted because the BullDog is just another cancer that grows because of the division. Go to other websites that have a real open forum with no censor and read between the lines to get your news.
Perhaps you will consider this.
I don’t care which ‘side’ or from what source a news story comes from. What I’m interested in is the basis for a politician’s point of view.
Is this particular policy or program or new piece of legislation good for the common person?
Will this give a wage earner a bit more value for each hour we work?
Will this go another step toward safe guarding the cleanliness of the water we drink or the air we breath?
Will this aid and support our veterans or retired or disabled people?
Will this reduce your or my tax load from its current 35% of a $40,000 per year income? Please include my drivers licence renewal, my fishing license, my $1,200 per month health insurance Cobra, my vehicle rego and all the other fees, licences, taxes and unavoidable expenses in what I call TAX.
I want your Aunt Maggie and Uncle Frank to have health insurance, Not when they retire but NOW. I want your son and daughter to be able to go to trade school or college, not when you and they remortgage the house and property, but NOW.
I want We, The People to have the same chance I had when I was young, not the false hope poor or lower class citizens cling to now. Giving the rich every crumb and gouging you and I and your kids is not what made My United States of America the country that sent men to the moon, built the interstate system and developed an Air Transport system that all but the very poorest can afford to use, at least once in a great while.
Never mind where your news comes from. Is the direction a politician is moving in helpful to your Army vet daughter, your old Mom who just got diagnosed with cancer or yourself as a worker. I drive a truck and ski patrol. It doesn’t cover the bills. Why is my 50 hours per week less valuable than anyone else’s? Why is speaking out for the working man or woman considered anything less than honorable and patriotic?
Who cares what symbol you carry as long as you vote for and believe in American Working people, seniors and those who put their lives in harms way to protect all of us?
Thanks, Mr. Laur Sibulkin
Gilliand rights (lefts?) very well and his attempt(s) to or suggestion that the bar be raised *should* be well taken
The Bulldog should be commended for allowing the insecure, nameless wingnuts who are too vain to seek counseling a venue to vent and otherwise get some important dangling doubts off their minds for a while
……………..maybe Gilliand should sent them a bill if the Bulldog doesn’t want to ?
Both the Associated Press and Reuters present balanced news. They refrain from opinions and it’s up to the reader to decide what they think.
The Associated Press: https://www.apnews.com/
Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/theWire
If you look on Scott’s chart, both of these sources are pretty centralized.
I have a hard time with most news networks because they try to tell me how I should feel about something. I’d like to think I can draw my own conclusions. But truth is tricky, and conclusions usually aren’t found quickly. So people go to the big networks because it’s easy for them to feel like they know what’s going on. I get that.
I’ve found that it usually takes a lot of effort to really learn and see how one change impacts another There are so many lenses with which to view any fact – it’s hard to know which analysis style I should use. To try to figure it out, I use websites like Snopes, which might be slightly biased, but is at least a starting off point. I try to look past the bias, identify fallacies, and use my own judgement. Here’s the website: https://www.snopes.com/
I find the ‘fact check’ section particularly useful.
What is this ‘balanced’ fascination? Every ‘news’ outlet, except FNC, leans left. Most lunge left. If you’re really concerned about balance, pass a law requiring 50% lean right. That will balance just fine.
Problem is, what you’re really complaining about is that FNC overwhelms all the others put together. The reason for that is, those others all say the same thing and treat their audience like babies. Correct that – good luck – and maybe we can talk about real, non-fake news.
Isn’t FOX the channel where half of the cast was fired for trying to pressure the other half for sex and said other half is suing the first half? Doesn’t sound like a very wholesome bunch to me.
Lauri… all will be fine when you realize the difference between wants and needs…And chuck … stick with your counseling if it makes you feel better.. those wingnut counselors need to make a living and pay of their student loans..
Hey Glen ……..lighten up
I was just pointing out some difficulties that some Bulldog readers (insecure and nameless) offering comments were having with their selves and the current real world
Your could help if you wanted to by giving the next brain twisted wing nut you see struggling a hug, you do hug don’t you? You don’t even have to exchange name or biz cards, just a hug and benign manly butt pat avec an “admonition” that tomorrow will be a better day (for both of you hopefully)
…………..what’s student debt have to do with anything?
No Deb… that is CNN and PBS where the rejects go that no one wants…
No,that was Fox with O’Reilly,Murdoch,Ailles,Bolling and others being fired and sued for trying to pressure the women into sex.Why would you deny that when it is public knowledge?
Just one more thing if I may: it seems there are alot of folks here that patrol this site day and night trying to turn the most inocuous story into a bitter partisan political issue. I expect someday that if Ms Naliboff posts a photo of a blue jay someone will accuse her of being a blue state liberal communist. There are some very angry folks here.No one even remotely happy,successful,well liked or well balanced behaves like that. I am sure that some “gentleman” will curse me out for this but I will be on vacation and will never know of it.
Deb… have a good vacation. If I am the ‘gentleman’.. I say thank you.. haven’t been call that for a long time.. However I did meet a kid in the supermarket last week that called me sir and asked me to help him find cinnamon bagels… I did and the thanked me and shook my hand and said thank you sir… As for comments… I have read a few of your and you seem quite capable of stirring up the stinky stuff yourself now and then.. Time to look in the mirror… as I will.. Thank you.
“There are some very angry folks here” Deborah Collins makes a valid observation, I see it nearly every time that the insecure nameless post patently content deficient comments
I wood o-pine that my previous counseling “suggestion” that Glen took me to task over might well include some anger management
“And chuck … stick with your counseling if it makes you feel better” (Glen)
DAILY TROLLDOG!!!!!! Haha, too perfect, well put!