>"Each side has it's partisan web site (Drudge Report and Move On)."
Click over to http://www.factcheck.org/ and run a search for "drudge", then run a search for "moveon".
>"re: media bias and watching/listening/reading to one's biased favorites exclusively."
http://www.pbs.org/tuckercarlson/unfiltered/unfiltered_43.html
What journalism needs is some affirmative action. It's about time the Washington press corps looked like America. From here on out, news organizations ought to set aside 51 percent of all new jobs for the ultimate in under-represented groups: ordinary people from the red states: Culturally conservative Evangelicals who oppose gay marriage, have questions about evolution, and think abortion is murder. People who went to community college, approve of stay-at-home mothers, like bass fishing and keep at least one gun at home. People with views that, in newsrooms across the country, are currently considered beyond the pale.
Will this happen? Of course not. Red state voters are too unfashionable to qualify for their own affirmative action program. And that's too bad. It's hard to know what America is thinking if you never meet most of the people who live there.
Mark
featuring some of the people from the States who were taken in by the inhabitants of a number of small communities around Gander, Newfoundland when their aircraft were redirected on 9/11.
Gander, while it has a large airport and is a former Canadian and US Forces airbase is a very small community with not a lot of room for overnight guests. People were taken by school bus to nearby communities and given a place to sleep, bedding from the homes of the inhabitants (there being no big stores in the area), food, various necessities tooth-brush, baby-formula, a whole list that I wish I could recall in order to put it down here. The laundry and towels were taken away every day and laundered in their homes and brought back fresh every afternoon. The bus driver was quoted by a lovely woman from Ohio in a very creditable Newfie accent as introducing himself as "Me names Moody, but dat's me name an' not me nature." On the drive to a community 45 miles away which was taking the passengers in, they passed a moose on the roadside and when the passengers remarked on it he stopped, backed up the bus and let people photograph and video the moose and its companion which emerged a few minutes later and then asked, "Has ye all had a good look? Well we'll be gettin aahn (on) den." Newfoundland is a place of rich and vibrant culture. A lot of people there are musicians as they were everywhere 80 or more years ago, and the locals entertained the visitors with folk songs and other entertainment.
The conclusion of the participants in the program was that Canadian cultural values are closely related to small town values of connectedness and participation, and of helping one another.
The reason I write all this is to try to counter Kidpeat's posting of an unpleasant and inaccurate Chicago Sun-Times editorial that is so utterly unlike the Canadians I've met, and the Canadians other Americans have met and been moved to write and speak about. I don't take Speakeasy's rather hard-nosed participants to be representative of the US, or even of the Republican party, please don't confuse Canada's not acting like the 51st state with detestation or despising. It's not that. It's a different and not malign point of view. Just remember that only 53 million out of 280 million voted to support the current administration. That's roughly 25%, although, of course, probably 80 million aren't voters.
Like it or not they (we) are your best friends and are more likely to understand and to help than anyone anywhere.
Rob Boyter

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