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Dec 16, 2009 14:44:54 GMT -5
Post by Cassie on Dec 16, 2009 14:44:54 GMT -5
nevermind
Seriously..... the wording that Donnajo used "misconception" gave me "food for thought" on the topic of abortion
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Dec 16, 2009 14:49:32 GMT -5
Post by DonnaJo on Dec 16, 2009 14:49:32 GMT -5
Cassie, even though I am Catholic and am employed by the Diocese, I do not agree with the Bishop asking Mr. Kennedy to refrain from taking Holy Communion. But I'm not a priest either, and their views are necessarily different than those of us lay people. In my mind, receiving communion should be between the person and God.
My view's on abortion mirror Goren's - that it is a necessary evil. I believe that it should stay legalized - exception being abortions in the last trimester. And I remember the fight for legalizing abortion. How women who could afford it would travel to Europe, and those who were poor would go in a back room and be treated with a coat hanger. How many women died doing that?
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Dec 16, 2009 20:57:48 GMT -5
Post by outerbankschick on Dec 16, 2009 20:57:48 GMT -5
Oh no, Trish, I wasn't saying that anyone in this thread referred to me that way. But it is the way that people like me are often referred to in the media, on blogs, and in the workplace, too. Boy, the conversations I've had to stay out of at work! Yikes! As for NPR, I don't think anyone could make a case that they are openly biased. But there is something there...it's very subtle, and it's more the tone they use. There is a skepticism that I notice on certain issues and it doesn't seem to be equal on both sides, and not on every issue. We should also be fair here and make the distinction between journalists and commentators. That line has been very blurred in recent years. Glenn Beck has never called himself a journalist. In fact, he makes a point to state that he is not a journalist. He is a commentator. So is Limbaugh and so is O'Reilly. Keith Oberman and Chris Matthews are also commentators. They are not journalists. The problem I see with some of these commentators is that they pass themselves off as journalists who are simply reporting the news, when that is not what they are. They are commentators who put their own biased slant on the news they report and discuss. Dan Rather, however opinionated he may be, is a journalist. His downfall was forgetting that and allowing his personal opinions to color his reporting. I myself grew up mostly with Tom Brokaw, although I vaguely remember Chet Huntley, too. My parents always watched the Nightly News on NBC, but in the mornings my Mom always watched Good Morning America. I can remember when Joan Lunden was co-anchor.
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Dec 28, 2009 9:44:49 GMT -5
Post by romulanavatra3 on Dec 28, 2009 9:44:49 GMT -5
hey all i think an intresting thing is that jon stewert makes a better glenn beck than glenn beck you seriousrly have to his impersanation it is to funny(in a odd sort of way) for words and spot on(also rather disturbing).
i tend to agree with you trisha about bill oreily and glenn beck and their counterparts on the other side. though you do have to find it remarkable thatr the daily show colbert report often are better at dealing with facts than most of the rest of the media(even if it is with a bias and not intentional).
we have most of the same problems with our media in asustralia in some ways a little worse(particularly on raido) and in others less so(no glenn becks or bill oreily's for starters though we do have their equal on radio, thankfully, though they are confined to radio thanfully).
i have to say anything on cnn is really to embrassingly gibberish to take seriuously, i mean they barley seem to do journalisim at all(not the fox news even bothers). but they seem obessed with i phones and twitter(who really wants to find their twitter post plasttered on everybodys tv).
regards rom.
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