Patterico’s Los Angeles Times Year in Review for 2005 represents one rather comprehensive instance of a conservative battling a prominent left-liberal media organ over control of key political narratives. Well worth a look—and a testament to the kind of rigorous analysis and careful fact-checking that shows the blogosphere at its finest.
Except for the Schiavo event.
Patterico is isomorphic with the LAT, but in reverse.
Most coverage of Schiavo in the rightside blogverse was exactly as distorted as the leftside coverage, but with opposite spin.
And you know what?
Dint see a single retraction on the validity of the balloon video, even after the autopsy showed terri was blind.
deliciously evil.
That one item, eh? Man, when you look at the ‘longer than Tookie’s rapsheet’ length list of LATimes transgressions, that looks pretty damned good by comparison.
I’d weep with joy if the MSM could get to a point even half that good…
tw: paper… Yeahhhhh.
There’s more than one “rightside blogverse,” evidently. I’m well up on my wingnut whatnot, and I have no idea what “the balloon video” is. (Well, not that one.)
On the darkside I trawl, *all* the Schiavo commentaries were variations on “This isn’t political. This is why I hate having to vote for Republicans just to keep the Democrats at bay. You, grandstanding a-holes, get off my TV and take an ax to a budget or something.”
They took the standard “right” position, in other words. Like actual righties do. In real life.
It is to laff.
Boner, you didn’t read Capt’n Ed or Hyscience=Junkscience, obviously.
Ah yes, Schiavo just has got to be the most important issue of the year. WHAT? Yeah, I read Captain Ed, but if you want groupthink, try the left side of the blogverse. It’s clearly superior over there (both the groupthink and the attitude, although for the attitude, “superiority” might be a better word).
TW: clearly
Lucy
Why are you trying to spam HERE when Patterico already wiped the floor with you THERE?
Gee, you’d think Lucy was a pseudonym for LAT’s editor … or his pet dog.
Oh, wait, Babs is that you?
Who’s deconstructing Kibo?
Oh, Lucy’s a troll. That’s kind of what I thought.
TW: thought. OK, this thing is getting REAL scary now.
I should point out that I was on the opposite side on the Schiavo affair, but that doesn’t mean that those on my side weren’t every bit as guilty of manipulating the story as were Sean Hannity or Randall Terry.
Patterico’s post shows media bias. I don’t endorse it as saying he was correct in every instance, just that the efforts to tease out the bias were performed admirably.
I disagree.
for example, Patterico cites the “euphoria in terminal cancer patients” article as an example of bias. But what the LAT said was absolutely correct, i’ve read peer reviewed articles in pub med, and that is a common experience in dehydration death. Patterico countered that terri was not terminal…well, she was. as soon as she was in hospice she was terminal, so the article was relevent and not an exemplar of bias, as he purports.
How can you tease out bias when you are biased yourself?
Fine. It’s not an admirable example of a teasing out bias. It was a waste of a year, and Patterico is an unscrupled asshole. Sorry I pointed you toward his horrific agitprop. Ignore my post entirely.
i don’t mean to say that schiavo was the most important story of the year. But it was the only one with blatant rightside bias and total avoidance of fact-checking. i am very curious about it as an anomaly.
And you guys are saying i should give Patterico a “by” because that is the only place in all that monstrous lot of work,(where he does do an excellent job incidentally), because this is small and unimportant?
Yes.
What?
You didn’t believe me when i said i was an adept in evil?
maya angelou
I hesitate to turn this into yet another pointless Schiavo thread, but then, Lucy started that, didn’t she?
There’s plenty about the Schiavo episode on which reasonable people can disagree—but there are also certain facts that are undisputed by rational observers. One of those was the undisputed fact that members of Schiavo’s family disagreed about what should happen to Schiavo—a basic fact that Lucy unaccountably insisted on contradicting at my site. If Lucy really disputes that Terri Schiavo’s family disagreed about what should happen to her—a point she did in fact dispute at my site—then Lucy is more brain-dead than Terri Schiavo ever was (or is now).
Another indisputable fact is that Terri Schiavo was not “terminal,” any more than all humans are. Ergo, while terminal cancer patients may well feel “euphoria” upon starving themselves, I suggest that Lucy would not feel the same if someone were to forcibly strap her down to a table and deprive her of food and hydration. Lucy’s less-than-compelling retort is that Schiavo was “terminal” by definition simply because Michael Schiavo managed to get her placed in a hospice. Pardon me if I find that logic less than compelling.
I too found myself on the opposite of the Schiavo issue than Patterico ( good to see you here BTW ) and I might disagree with him on some of the details of the case discussed in his piece.
But that hardly demonstrates some huge bias on the part of Patterico. The piece was an excellant compendium and I tip my hat to him.
Go back to teasing Linus, Lucy.
at the moment the tube was removed, terri became terminal. she could not swallow unaided.
at that point articles on dehydration death became relevent, not bias.
terri did not die of starvation.
she weighed 270 pounds.
Lucy, if a healthy person were strapped down to a table and deprived of water, they’d be “terminal” in the same sense you’re saying. That doesn’t necessarily make their dehydration euphoric, as it might be for someone whose body was already shutting down even before the dehydration.
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