1) Do you think that, in general, someone who read only the NYT's spin on the wikileaks coverage will bother to look at other news sources to get another view? Do you tend to look at one source for your news coverage, or do you look for several sources? If you look at several sources, do you think they tend to have the same slant?
2) The author appears to have a prior bias against the NYT's from the very beginning of the article, where he mentions "the NYT's sleazy, sideshow-smears against Julian Assange." Do you tend to pick up previous biases while reading online articles?
3) Greenwald is a well-known political pundit, and a very influential liberal voice in the media, with a long track record of exposing government and media deceptions. Do you take this into account when reading his articles? Do you look into who is writing the articles you read?
"1) Do you think that, in general, someone who read only the NYT's spin on the wikileaks coverage will bother to look at other news sources to get another view? Do you tend to look at one source for your news coverage, or do you look for several sources? If you look at several sources, do you think they tend to have the same slant?"
ReplyDeleteA: It is definitely important to use discernment. I find that it helps to use a bunch of sources to find out, generally, what happened. Then its important to try and isolate that information's author's agenda.