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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 07:05 AM
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Billo asks a news bias poll on his website- Something is missing
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NYC Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 07:09 AM
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1. Heh. Well given those choices, I'll go with the AP...
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Proud Liberal Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 07:14 AM
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2. You're absolutely right
I just can't remember which one is missing..............;)
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Buzz Clik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 07:20 AM
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3. It doesn't matter, does it? According to many DUers, the only reliable news outlet is Al Jazeera.
Based on the comments of a lot of people here:

NPR is THE mouthpiece for the GOP
The NY Times does nothing but carry the administration's water
AP is laughable
And MSNBC went to the dark side with their new owner.

Who needs Fox News when the right already has their news covered?

:silly:
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polmaven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 08:03 AM
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5. No..there are two...
The other being Wikileaks. Those are the only two sources that are 100% reliable and truthful!
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Buzz Clik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 09:00 AM
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7. LOL! 100% reliable and truthful?
We are naive.
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polmaven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 01:37 PM
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10. Sorry...
I may have underestimated their value...It may be that society as we know it will disappear if Julian Assange is actually extridicted...!





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surrealAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 07:43 AM
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4. This belongs on Fail blog.
... very funny.
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 08:22 AM
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6. The " Volksempfänger "
All Volksempfängers sold on the domestic market were purposely designed only to receive the Deutschlandsender and regional stations of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft, so as to ensure that Nazi propaganda broadcasts could readily be heard while other media, such as the BBC's European Service (now the World Service), could not.

To this end most Volksempfängers lacked shortwave bands and didn't follow the practice, common at the time among other receiver manufacturers, of marking the approximate dial positions of major European stations on its tuning scale. Generally only German (and later Austrian) stations were marked and cheaper models didn't have a proper scale at all (an example pictured above has its dial marked in arbitrary numbers rather than metres or kilocycles).

The sensitivity was lower than a normal radio although in practice it could with some difficulty still be used to receive foreign stations (including the BBC)<2> particularly as these stations increased their transmission power during the war.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksempfänger
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 10:10 AM
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8. Self aggrandizing question.
Edited on Thu Feb-24-11 10:10 AM by Javaman
Which leads to fox being the most biased news.

but alas, fox news watchers will miss that.

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Dappleganger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 10:13 AM
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9. Bias poll is biased?
How's this not a surprise from the Flat Earth man?
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