dissent

[MalignD at aol.com]

<< I think I do understand how much you'd like to hear my opinion and enter 
into dialogue, but I think I'll decline the offer to discuss Weisbrot's 
article. >>

Big surprise.

<< I strongly recommend that you read some serious media criticism and gain  
some understanding into the process by which manstream newspapers and  
broadcast news operations create the news they publish.  Ideological bias  
creeps into every journalistic venture, no matter how rigorously  journalists 
follow established professional and ethical practices.>>

One needn't be an on-line journalist to grasp this basic point, thanks, which 
is not the one I'm making nor is it the one your posted articles address.  

My point is that your criticism is unspecific--a general charge that the 
mainstream press is brokered and untrustworthy--and your posts do nothing to 
correct bias.  They simply provide an unvarnished bias from another direction 
(one which you happen to agree with, small surprise).

<<But, if you don't want dissenting opinions to  contaminate your thinking, 
I'm sure you'll manage to keep them at bay. If wish to argue against the 
opinions expressed in these articles, feel  free to do that, too.>>

I'm welcome dissenting opinions, cogently presented. 

<<You can continue to try to marginalize them because you don't agree with 
them, if you wish.>>

Not because I don't agree with them; because they are offered as journalism 
by a "journalist" when in fact they little more than leftist polemic.