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Re:Eat, Drink and Be Wary: Ex-CIA Officer Reveals How Eateri... by unlinked_dll on Thursday October 17, 2019 @05:38PM (#21286587)
Radically centrist in that they go out of their way not to be liberal or conservative in an attempt to stay unbiased, sometimes to the detriment of the programming.
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Re:Eat, Drink and Be Wary: Ex-CIA Officer Reveals How Eateri... by bitlax on Thursday October 17, 2019 @05:49PM (#21286662)
Well they aren't liberal or conservative so much as establishment Democrat. And they regularly engage in bias by omission in their reporting.
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Re:Eat, Drink and Be Wary: Ex-CIA Officer Reveals How Eateri... by pstuart on Thursday October 17, 2019 @09:28PM (#21287876)
the bias is "don't upset the apple cart".

I think the complaints about it being liberal are only valid in the context of not being rabidly right-wing.

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Re:Eat, Drink and Be Wary: Ex-CIA Officer Reveals How Eateri... by pstuart on Friday October 18, 2019 @12:57PM (#21292984)
Ha. I don't mind the downvotes (because I'm right). The "shift to the right" is pretty well documented.

The fact that "liberal" is considered a pejorative today is testament to that.

I welcome proof otherwise.

Edit: example #1 of "neutral bias": The war on drugs is reported on in a matter of fact manner, and I've heard ZERO editorial comments that point out the insanity and wrongfulness of it. Same thing with the wars, etc.

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Re:Eat, Drink and Be Wary: Ex-CIA Officer Reveals How Eateri... by jessaustin on Friday October 18, 2019 @10:42PM (#21296458)
I think nowadays "centrist" means "always supports all wars everywhere for any reason with any victim".
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Re:Eat, Drink and Be Wary: Ex-CIA Officer Reveals How Eateri... by bitlax on Friday October 18, 2019 @08:31PM (#21296074)
You could really show you don't care by not posting at all.
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Re:Eat, Drink and Be Wary: Ex-CIA Officer Reveals How Eateri... by dragonwriter on Thursday October 17, 2019 @07:18PM (#21287252)
> Radically centrist in that they go out of their way not to be liberal or conservative in an attempt to stay unbiased

You can't go out of your way to avoid particular positions to stay unbiased. Going out of your way to avoid particular positions is bias.

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Re:Eat, Drink and Be Wary: Ex-CIA Officer Reveals How Eateri... by adwi on Thursday October 17, 2019 @05:44PM (#21286626)
I think we can all at least agree that is a delightful headline.
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