Red Blue and Not White Media Bias
... You know, one lens is red, the other blue; in sync they produce wonderful pop-out real-life images? ... But have you noticed that if you look through only the red lens or the blue lens, all you see is rose-colored or blue-hued, but there really is no three-dimensional image? May be we need a “white” or “clear” choice in this all red or all blue world. Our perspectives in the United States are similarly tinted by an either all red or all blue tone, and nowhere do we once try and see both lenses together to provide a three-dimensional, complex view of the real world that we so desperately need. ... As much as you may feel like “flipping the channel” on me, this is one issue that just will not go away. After all, people have been crying the “B word” for the last decade, and Bias in the media is a problem. Even if you change the channel, the problem of bias will continue to rise until we once and for all resolve the problem. Before I delve into examining our lense-use, I would like to emphasize that not only does media surround us everywhere, we need to make sure we are not enslaved as puppets of it, and therefore instead of absorbing everything, we need to always question and be a critically informed citizenry. First we will determine if many of us really are not using our glasses correctly and if so, we will discover how it is that we should see our images, and detect the fantastic virtual hues from the gruesome real ones. The last decade has seen various individuals complaining about a biased media, especially a “liberally biased” media. ... 1 Unabashedly conservative individuals such as Ann Coulter who probably is a polarizing figure to those who know this so-called “Barbie with a mouth,” have written entire books about a liberal media. But people like Bernard Goldberg writing as a “CBS insider” in his book Bias two years ago reveal the truth accepted nonchalantly by the executives themselves: DUH there’s a bias!