U.S. Stood by as Indonesia Killed a Half-Million People, Papers Show

Re:U.S. Stood by as Indonesia Killed a Half-Million People, ... by weberc2 on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @06:25PM (#15503798)

Well, we were naming axes, weren't we? Government bias is a different axis from corporate bias from left/right political bias. It's odd to classify the first two as valid but not the last. If the problem is media distortion, it seems to me that progressive distortion is far greater than pro-business or pro-government distortion. I think we can agree that this much is true regardless of our opinions about how harmful each of these biases are.

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Re:U.S. Stood by as Indonesia Killed a Half-Million People, ... by abiox on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @06:39PM (#15503896)

> it seems to me that progressive distortion is far greater than pro-business or pro-government distortion

i don't know that these are directly comparable. it's like comparing a car's length to a truck's height. there may be some correlation, but they are distinct things.

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Re:U.S. Stood by as Indonesia Killed a Half-Million People, ... by weberc2 on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @07:27PM (#15504188)

You can compare a car's length to a truck's height; the units work out--whether or not its useful to do so is a different story (if you're playing tetris with cars and trucks, it might be very useful!). In particular, we can (and probably do) measure the magnitudes of the media's biases (pro-business, pro-government, progressive) and compare them, and it's very useful, for example, if you care about media bias and want to know what kind of pressure to apply to get the most bang for your finite political capital.

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