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Caution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-04 10:28 AM
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9. nope they are people who generally accept news stories
once they are source from multiple places. I don't think anyone is going to claim that In These Times doesn't have a strong bias and if one points a moderate at In These Times, that moderate will be scared off by most of the content contained in the magazine/site. If I'm looking to convince someone of fault in the Bush administration, i can point to hundreds of sources in mainstream news organizations that they have heard of and that don't contain obviously leftist rhetoric that typically scares away moderates in the same way that newsmax does.

This story may be accurate and most likley is, but I certainly won't be sending it to my cousin as a great example of how Bush lies because he'll react very negatively to it, even though he has come a long way on the Bush front.

And frankly though Fox news is obviously biased to those who pay attention, there are many who are duped by the methodology they use and the fact that they attempt to hide their bias. In These Times makes no pretense.

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