As I sit here and write my paper on the legendary I.F. Stone Weekly the idea of bias in newspaper writing continues to be cited as a "problem" with Izzy's work and I can't help but ask myself the questions: How can a man with no political affiliation be accused of bias? How can a man who criticizes politicians and their policies irregardless of their political affiliation be accused of having a leftist slant?
More often than not I feel as though any publication that prints the truth or disproves the mainstream media are accused of being crazy left-wing advocates. Since when has the truth become 1) a bad thing and 2) negatively tied to the left-side of the political spectrum?
The best answer I can come up with is that the government and mainstream media (which today are really one in the same) have worked to create an image of the nut-job left-wing radical and now when there are ugly truths uncovered they merely chalk it up to conspiracies or exaggerations cooked up by these left-wing liberals.
Being from a largely republican town, I had one teacher (for International Relations) that was very clearly left-wing. Most kids chalked up his rants and teachings to crazy talk (mainly because they only knew how to regurgitate what their parents said and their parents were merely regurgitating the mainstream media). But as I continue with my college education I am realizing more and more that Mr. Jean wasn't some crazy long-haired hippy strung out on conspiracy theories but rather someone who actually knew what he was talking about.
What I'm getting at here is that people should be careful when they hear things being written off in the news because the news is often writing off the truth.
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